Our first ever Research and Teaching Showcase Day is on Wednesday 19 June and features a full day of workshops demonstrating good practice and exciting areas of activity – it will facilitate the opportunity to exchange ideas and promote collaboration across Edinburgh Napier. Please ensure you register your place for each event as spaces may be limited.
| Time | Location | |
| 9.30–10.30am | The Hunch Crunch… Nick Fannin, Bright Red Triangle You’ve got an idea and intuition tells you that it might just work! How do you find out for sure? The Hunch Crunch… How do you talk to customers? How do you know if your idea is any good when everybody is either just telling you what you want to hear or telling you they’re not interested before they have even heard what you have to say. |
Room 2/09 Craiglockhart |
| 9.30–10.30am | Data Science – engaging staff across the university who might be interested in incorporating data science into programmes Mhairi McNeill, School of Computing You might have heard of the hype surrounding data science. Data scientists supposedly have the ‘sexiest job of the 21st century’. But what exactly is data science? Is it anything new? Is it just statistics with a marketing team behind it? In this session, we’ll be going beyond the data science hype. Learn how data science skills can give students employable skills and an understanding of the world around them. You’ll learn about the many views on what data science is, get some practical experience of thinking about data and hopefully have some fun! |
Room C30 Merchiston |
| 9.30–10.30am | Working with the Forces! Georgina Jamieson, Research and Innovation Office The Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) presents a whole range of exciting opportunities given that it is the largest investment in innovation funding for the last 50 years. This meeting is for staff from across the institution who have worked or are working with current/retired servicemen. In relation to this work, the group will explore opportunities around the ISCF’s Healthy Ageing Challenge. All attendees will have the opportunity to explain what work they are currently undertaking, which organisations they work with and which organisations they would like to work with. The group will then go on to discuss opportunities for collaborative working and project ideas to take forward. |
Room 2/06 Craiglockhart |
| 9.30–11am | What’s In Your Learning Technology Toolbox? Dr Stephen Bruce, Information Services Are you thinking of flipping your classroom, changing your assessments, or designing interactive learning materials? Are you aware of the technologies available to support your module’s classroom and online delivery? Come along to this session for a tour of the University’s learning technology toolbox, and get hands-on support to put your ideas into practice. You will hear how technology can support student collaboration and group work, participation in lectures, independent study, and coursework submission and feedback. So whether you are planning small blends or preparing to teach fully online, there are tools to choose from and support to apply them. |
Room 0/09 Craiglockhart |
| 10–11.30am | Minecraft for Learning and Teaching Dr Louise Drumm, Department of Learning and Teaching Enhancement Minecraft is much more than a game. It is a virtual world where users can work collaboratively to explore and build the digital lego-like environment around them. It has been used in education for unstructured creative learning, or structured where learners explore anything from 3D molecular structures to an archaeological dig in St Kilda’s. This workshop will give participants hands-on experience in Minecraft, working collaboratively with colleagues in ‘serious play’, while exploring the potential use of such creative tools in different disciplines. |
Room B55-b, Merchiston |
| 11am–12noon | How to Get Your Academic Book Published Dr Phiona Stanley, The Business School This session is for late-stage PhD candidates, ECRs and post-ECR academic staff interested in publishing with academic presses. It covers the how and the why of various publishing options, focusing on monographs and edited collections. You will learn: pros and cons of book publishing (as opposed to journal articles), publishing timeline and terminology, how to write a successful proposal for eitheran edited collection or monograph, how to adapt your PhD as a monograph proposal advice on editing a collection and giving feedback on contributors’ chapters, what to expect from reviewers’ reports and some strategic publishing advice. |
Room 2/10 Craiglockhart |
| 12.15–1.15pm | Building a Case with Bricks Dr Rosemary Alford and Dr Christopher Cramphorn, The Business School This workshop introduces active learning as one means to address the need to generate student employability competences, innovation and entrepreneurship by encouraging and supporting students and graduates to be entrepreneurial. It is widely recognised that students learn from entrepreneurial storytelling (Donnellon et al, 2014). By the end of the session, we hope you will be able to:
Donnellon, A., Ollila, S., & Middleton, K. W. (2014). Constructing entrepreneurial identity in entrepreneurship education. The International Journal of Management Education, 12(3), 490-499. |
Room 2/05 Craiglockhart |
| 1–2.30pm | What’s In Your Learning Technology Toolbox? Dr Stephen Bruce, Information Services Are you thinking of flipping your classroom, changing your assessments, or designing interactive learning materials? Are you aware of the technologies available to support your module’s classroom and online delivery? Come along to this session for a tour of the University’s learning technology toolbox, and get hands-on support to put your ideas into practice. You will hear how technology can support student collaboration and group work, participation in lectures, independent study, and coursework submission and feedback. So whether you are planning small blends or preparing to teach fully online, there are tools to choose from and support to apply them. |
Room 5.E.06 Sighthill |
| 1.30–3pm | Minecraft for Learning and Teaching Dr Louise Drumm, Department of Learning and Teaching Enhancement Minecraft is much more than a game. It is a virtual world where users can work collaboratively to explore and build the digital lego-like environment around them. It has been used in education for unstructured creative learning, or structured where learners explore anything from 3D molecular structures to an archaeological dig in St Kilda’s. This workshop will give participants hands-on experience in Minecraft, working collaboratively with colleagues in ‘serious play’, while exploring the potential use of such creative tools in different disciplines. |
Rooms 2/16a and 2/16b Craiglockhart |
| 2.45–3.45pm | Show Me The Money! Morven Fraser, Research & Innovation Office This workshop will help you think about how to turn your research or teaching into a commercially viable proposition that:
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Room 1/06 Craiglockhart |
| 4–5pm | Sharing best practice: partnership working between academic staff and Academic Skills team in delivering contextualised Academic Skills support for students Academic Skills Team The Academic Skills Advisers have been working in partnership with module and programme leaders across the institution to integrate academic skills development and support students’ success. In this session we will be ‘showcasing’ some examples of this collaborative work from a range of programmes. Contextualising academic skills support in relation to particular assignments helps to decrease student anxiety and increase confidence (Ooms, Fergy, Marks-Maran, Burke and Sheehy, 2013). In the study by Parkes, Blackwell Young, Cleaver and Archibald (2014), students perceived support that was integrated into modules as being more relevant than support delivered solely by professional services, particularly when linked to specific assignments. Furthermore, Wingate (2006) suggests students who are most at risk of failing academically are often those who are least likely to attend bolt-on classes, demonstrating the importance of a cohesive timetabled approach to support the requisite development of these critical skills. With the student experience, retention and wider participation high on everyone’s agendas, this session demonstrates how we can work in partnership to support our students’ journeys to success. |
Room 1/06 Craiglockhart |