Angela Benzies 

In this new regular feature we’ll aim to provide news about what is happening with the Teaching Fellows Grants Panel and its associated work. See other articles on recent projects in this edition of the tfj.

Panel remit and membership 

Any current Teaching Fellow or Senior Teaching Fellow may apply to the Teaching Development Fund for a grant to fund pedagogical project work, for help with learning, teaching and assessment events in their area, or for personal support, such as a contribution towards conference attendance. 

The Teaching Fellow community has a say in the use of the money and this is done through consultation with Fellows on policy and, at a practical level, the Fund is administered by a Grants Panel comprising two representatives from each of the Faculties working with the Teaching Fellow Coordinator. The current membership is: Angela Benzies (convenor, Office of the Vice Principal (Academic)), Norrie Brown and Janis Deanne (Faculty of Health, Life &Social Sciences), Linda Juleff and Norma D’Annunzio-Green (The Business School) and Ian Lambert and Courtnay McLeod (Faculty of Engineering, Computing & Creative Industries). I am most grateful for the contribution of Kate Durkacz of the School of Engineering &the Built Environment, who has provided cover for maternity leave for the last several months. It is the intention that Faculty representatives will typically serve for a period of three years and then retire, which disributes the workload among the community and will allow other Fellows to gain experience of the work of the Grants Panel. 

New developments

Since its inception three years ago, the Panel’s business has grown as the number of bids for funding has increased, so we have been developing our procedures to enhance the level of support given to applicants. I am very keen to make information on current activity and the portfolio of completed work more readily available to the community and other colleagues across the University, so have had discussions with Information Services about how we may extend our current online facility for submission of funding bids to achieve this. The aim is to be able to disseminate grant-related information widely in order to effectively build on previous work rather than ‘reinventing’, to foster links between people and projects in different areas across the University, to provide ideas for new projects and to support internal and external quality processes such as subject review and ELIR. By re-writing our information system to align with current institutional standards we also hope to simplify routine administration of the Teaching Fellow Scheme.

Recent Grant Awards

TF1102 MarkitEasy Upgrade Alison Varey £1,000

TF1103 Scan-TEL (Environmental Scanning in Technology-Enhanced Learning) Keith Smyth £2,060

TF1104 An international learning experience for Scottish & Australian Student Nurses Liz Adamson £1,228

TF1105 Peer tutoring Susan Watt £1,660

TF1106 LTA Seminar in SNMSC Karen Strickland £300

TF1107 A systematic review and exploration of the use of mobile learning technologies for practice based learning in nursing Karen Strickland £3,000

TF1108 Virtual World Nursing: Evaluation of a Wiki Based Module to enhance the International Learning Experience for undergraduate nursing students Karen Strickland £3,620

TF1109 Feedback First: the potential impact on MSc students Kathy Velander £3,490

TF1110 Refreshing and broadening the 2010 ‘Podcasting project’ to include all nursing and midwifery students Christine Pollock £1,000

TF1112 Scoping project of practice placements to consider a Hub and Spoke approach for the BN Child Health programme Christine Pollock £1,000

TF1114 Dialogue in the lecture hall: using bootgrit and textwalls to start a conversation Mark Huxham £4,270

TF1115 Assessment of online discussions Marjorie Keys £1,462

TF1116 Child protection conference, student essay and poster competitions Marjorie Keys £917

TF1117 Approaches to networked learning using social & institutional technologies Keith Smyth £2,578

TF1118 It is claimed that ‘assertion and reason’ questions test higher order thinking – what safeguards can be put in place to ensure that this claim is valid? Marjorie Keys £1,770

TF1119 Attendance at SEDA Annual Conference Joan McLatchie £780

TF1120 Revamp of the Teaching Fellows Journal Angela Benzies £1,200

TF1121 Attendance at SEDA Annual Conference Karen Campbell £1,195

tfj october 2011, news, grants panel

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