Seneca on Higher Education in the Arts and Humanities by Professor Peter...
Seneca the Younger (4 B.C. – A.D. 65) was a famous Roman statesman and stoic philosopher. As the young Nero’s tutor, he at some point was de facto Rome’s Emperor by all but the title. His Epistulae...
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Preparation for phonetic transcription: an exercise in student engagement by...
As a recipient of funding under the PLanT (Partnerships in Learning and Teaching) scheme (PLANT Projects Scheme), I am delighted to be able to report on the project – which is still a bit of a work in...
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Developing highly employable pharmacy graduates by Dr Samantha Weston
In an effort to rise to the challenge of increasing the employability of graduates, staff from Reading School of Pharmacy worked in a cross-faculty collaboration with colleagues in Henley Business...
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Making Screencasts: It’s enormously fun and rewarding! by Dr Emma Mayhew
http://www.reading.ac.uk/spirs/Screencasts/spirs-screencasts.aspx Have you ever wondered if students actually read their handbooks? Many probably don’t get all the way to the end and miss out on...
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Creating a campus biodiversity recording app by Dr Alice Mauchline
There is an on-going multi-disciplinary, student-led project at the University of Reading to create an app for recording biodiversity sightings on the Whiteknights campus. This project was funded by...
View ArticleMaking American Government a social experience by Mark Shanahan
Getting young people to engage in the political process appears to be a problem all across western democracies. Politics and politicians seem remote from the young and the gap between the Baby Boomers...
View ArticleLinked Academic Placements: solving a problem by Dr. Cindy Becker
In the Department of English Literature all of our Parts 2 and 3 modules are available as placement modules, allowing a student to identify (with our help) a suitable placement provider and work with...
View ArticleFlipping assessment?! by Dr Karen Ayres
Like many colleagues, I have attended a number of interesting talks on the ‘flipped classroom’ approach, whereby, in a role reversal, the main delivery of information takes place outside of the...
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Engaging large student lecture groups using Facebook by Dr Alastair Culham
Facebook can be a distraction to learning but it can also be an aid. I believe strongly that lecturers should do their best to make their subject interesting to students. It can be an uphill battle....
View ArticleTowards a Postcolonial Pedagogy by Dr Nicola Abram
Engaging with literary representations of ‘race’, racism and ethnicity This workshop offers university teachers of literature a forum to reflect on texts that enquire into the construction of ‘race’,...
View ArticleGroup work: sure, but what about assessment? By Heike Bruton (a TLDF project)
Group work has many well-documented benefits for students, but it also provides considerable challenges. A frequent complaint from students is that differences in contributions are not recognised when...
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Event report: Towards a Postcolonial Pedagogy: Engaging with literary...
Background There’s a lively community of academics researching postcolonial literature, both across the UK and internationally. Many of us also enjoy the privilege of teaching these texts at...
View ArticleMultiple identities – student or teacher? by Catherine Foley
Background Students on the BA (QTS) in Primary Education juggle conflicting roles right from the beginning of their programme. On the one hand they are undergraduate students with all that entails –...
View ArticleThe evolution of bioscience horizons, an international student journal by...
Given the focus on the research-teaching nexus within the University at present I thought it would be useful to post a short video on the University’s involvement in an international journal that only...
View ArticleInaugural Writer’s Retreat for finding your FLAIR by Dr Sam Weston
On 4th June at London Road, CQSD ran their first writing retreat for UoR staff embarking on the pilot FLAIR CPD programme, to document their previous teaching experience and apply for HEA recognition...
View ArticleInter-disciplinary Research Applied Ethics, Economic History and Social and...
Dear Colleagues of this University, I thought it may be worthwhile sharing via our blog the news on an exciting inter-disciplinary research in Henley Business School’s Centre of Social and...
View ArticleTLDF-funded project gets off to a flying start… by Dr Cindy Becker
The GRASS (Generating Resources and Access to Screen capture Software) project aims to enable, enhance and support access to screen capture technology across the University. It is a Teaching and...
View ArticleAdvances regarding human action and learning with an inter-disciplinary...
For colleagues who may be interested in current research advances which may affect how we understand and practice learning and the role of agency and community in the class (involving all...
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Day one of the APP workshop at University of Reading Malaysia by Dr Samantha...
Today in Johor Bahru, academic staff from University of Reading Malaysia embarked upon Day 1 of the first module of the Academic Practice Programme, being delivered by Clare McCullagh from the UK...
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Challenges of Web Residency by Dr Becky Thomas
We are living in an increasingly digital world; many of our students grow up immersed in this way of life, having access to a wealth of information online, often accessible wherever they are. But how...
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