Research-led:
Learning about current research in the discipline
- Incorporate current research in the discipline into student lectures
- Include up-to-date research data in your teaching
- Draw on your own experiences of undertaking research - including its complexity - talking about when things go wrong as well as right
- Include current research debates in your teaching
- Introduce students to staff research, e.g. by preparing and undertaking an interview with a member of academic staff about their own research or current research in their discipline or specialism
- Introduce students to the research culture of the department through getting them to read selected outputs. e.g. the History Department has an externally facing blog, on which staff share details of their research and on which students are encouraged to comment
- Encourage students to follow research blogs, podcasts and social media
- Include recent research outputs on reading lists
- Invite students to attend academic staff-led research seminars
- Invite students to become members of research groups
- Help students to read research articles
- Ask students to write an abstract of a research article
- Support students in setting up reading groups
- Set tasks that use data generated from staff research
- Ask students to consider the media reporting of an issue and the original research on which it is based
- Ask students to consider the professional practices and the research on which they are based (e.g. on placements)
- Design essays or projects on a current researcher within the discipline - the features of their work, methodology, etc. - and ask them to offer a critique based on what they have learned in their module.
- Ask students to undertake a literature review of a given or chosen area