Humanities & Social Science
Projects from the College of Humanities and Social Science, listed by the School of the lead applicant.
Business School
Working together - a multi-method study into students’ experience of group-based learning in the Business School
Enhancing student critical reading of texts through the use of blogs
Trading simulation platforms in finance education
Skills development and employability in the Business School Undergraduate curriculum
School of Divinity
University undergraduate academic skills acquisition prior to arriving at University
Orchestrating the student experience with social media tools
Leveraging Web 2.0 technologies to enhance feedback
Economics
No current projects
Edinburgh College of Art
Film studies and film in the public space "Thinking Cinema"
Investigating innovative environmental analysis teaching methods for undergraduates
Musical improvisation in Higher Education: Values, methods and assessment
The Law School history wall project
Data Fairs, Matchmaking and Collaboration Patterns for Improving Data Science Teaching
Helping teachers and learners discover unfamiliar ways of thinking
English Language Education (formerly English Language Teaching Centre)
Health in Social Science
Developing and evaluating the use of a ‘virtual family’ in the training of health professionals
People are experts: co-production of teaching and learning with marginalised people
Humanising an asynchronous online course - could Jelly Babies be the answer?
From periphery to core: personal tutoring in transition
Third space: evaluating a pilot
Developing doctoral students as (collaborative) writers
On-line training of Clinical Psychology post-graduates in good clinical practice research principles
Understanding the learning experience from voluntary work
Exploring the attitudes and learning needs of student nurses in relation to care home nursing
History, Classics and Archaeology
"What are you going to do with that?" The HCA Degree and Employability
Embedding employability in the course approval process
Writing Centre 2-year pilot in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology
Developing a disability studies module in the School of Health in Social Science.
Institute for Academic Development
Law
Content analysis of online discussion contributions on the eLLM
Embedding autonomous learning in the LLB curriculum: a scoping study of the potential use of PeerWise for learning and assessment
Literatures, Languages & Cultures
German in the workplace: boosting employability and language skills
Ways of thinking and practising in Chinese and Japanese studies
Ways of thinking and practising in IMES
Edinburgh Arabic Learning Evaluation Project (EALEP)
R.L. Stevenson's 'The Bottle Imp': a graphic adaption
Moray House School of Education and Sport
New geographies of learning: distance education and being ‘at’ Edinburgh
A longitudinal study investigating student perspectives on generic research methods courses
Dissertations at a distance - success for online distance learners at independent research stage
How do students and staff view assessment: 'Of', 'In' or 'As' learning?
"A live pulse": Yik Yak for understanding teaching, learning and assessment at Edinburgh
Physical activity in medical education: a flipped classroom approach
Enhancing assessment literacy amongst PGT students and scorer reliability amongst PGT staff
Lecture Recording for Inclusive Education
Developing a framework for inclusiveness in internationalisation.
An exploratory project: Enhancing students' experience through co-constructing academic community
Living and Studying at Home: Commuter Students in the Aftermath of the Pandemic
Crossing the Line: Developing an Interdisciplinary Toolkit for Higher Education
Philosophy, Psychology and Language Science
Conversations and disclosure analysis online: Developing and implementing an online resource for cross-disciplinary use in blended teaching
Introducing psychology via public engagement
Discovering development: Psychology research with children and young people
Playful Learning - evaluation and development of OER Board Game Jams
Aligning skills, assessments and feedback: a programme-level scheme
Social and Political Science
Teaching ethnographies: qualitative method training and the reflexive ethnography of teaching and learning
Critical skills in politics and international relations
Social Media: enhancing teaching & building community?
The English Bonus? Assessing the impact of non-credit English and academic writing
Making students curious: using an app-based walking tour as a pedagogical tool
Using lecture capture effectively for online learning
Assessing the effectiveness of e-portfolios in developing awareness of graduate attributes
Student-led portfolio assessment in a large pre-honours cross-university elective
Co-creating curriculum through the course Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World
Recreating the BBC class calculator: A project in open science pedagogy