By Dr Jo Seale, Professor Vrinda Nayak and Dr Eleanor Townsend Hello, we are three members of staff working at the University of Exeter medical school and have joined together to explore the representation of equality and diversity in the medical curriculum with the support of an Exeter Education Incubator grant. We are a diverse…
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by Leila Dawney, Sharon Strawbridge, Annabel Watson, Senior Academic Conduct Officers. It has been an unhappy revelation to many of us working in student cases and academic conduct that a disproportionate number of the students that we see come from overseas. Sometimes the meetings that we have with students are emotionally challenging. We see how…
by Sophie Houghton, Digital Learning Developer As part of a new Education Incubator project, I’d like to introduce the University of Exeter’s Digital Maker Space (DMS). I’m Sophie, and I’m the Digital Learning Developer for Renewable Energy. I’m working in a team alongside Barrie Cooper, Pierre de Brosses, Valentin Kozsla, Henry Ukomah and Sai Mahima…
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By Maarten Koeners How might we use play to support an improved educator and student experience? To find answers to this question we have been using play to create spaces and experiences that allow us to think, learn and create. By using play, we can push an idea, combine it, contradict it, relocate it, stretch…
Written by Dr Alison Hill I was an inaugural Exeter Education Incubator fellow in 2017/18 looking at ways to address the mathematics gap in my classes. I developed bespoke resources for my medicinal chemistry module, and a Smart Worksheet (in conjunction with LearnSci) for one of the second year biochemistry classes. In both cases I…
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