Teaching Matters Edinburgh

Welcome to the Edinburgh University Student’s Association Teaching Award Podcast Series, working with the Edinburgh Hybrid Teaching Exchange to celebrate those that have been nominated and shortlisted for this year’s awards. In this episode, Grace Lavender, Student Council Facilitator and 4th Year Religious Studies Student, talks with 2021 nominees Dr. Dimitri Mignard from the School of Engineerin...

This episode of the Teaching Matters podcast accompanies our March-April 2021 series on internationalisation curated by Dr Omolabake (Labake) Fakunle as guest editor. Dr Fakunle is a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (UoE) and Coordinator of the MSc Education General Pathway at Moray House School of Education and Sport. In this episode, Dr. Fakunle talks to Professor James Smith....

Welcome to the Edinburgh University Student’s Association Teaching Award Podcast Series. Working with the Edinburgh Hybrid Teaching Exchange to celebrate those that have been nominated and shortlisted for this year’s awards. In this episode, Grace Lavender Student Council Facilitator and 4th Year Religious Studies Student, talks with 2021 nominees Dr. Crispin Jordan, a Teaching Fellow with a focus...

This episode of the Teaching Matters podcast accompanies our March-April 2021 series on internationalisation curated by Dr Omolabake (Labake) Fakunle as guest editor. Dr Fakunle is a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (UoE) and Coordinator of the MSc Education General Pathway at Moray House School of Education and Sport. In this episode, Dr Fakunle talks to  Dr. Shari Sabeti,...

In this episode, we continue the story of how Covid-19 changed Assessment Design through an issue whose temperature has risen with the move to digital and hybrid; academic misconduct. We hear the voices of Neil Lent, a Lecturer in Learning and Teaching at the Institute for Academic Development at the University of Edinburgh and Celeste Mclaughlin, the Head of Academic Development for Digital Educa...

In this episode of the Teaching Matters podcast, we continue our conversation with Dr Nina Burrowes , a psychologist and founder of the Consent Collective , an organisation that works with communities and institutions in helping navigate the complex terrain of consent and sexual violence. The Consent Collective has been working closely with the University of Edinburgh for over four years by provid...

In this episode of the Teaching Matters podcast, we speak with Dr Nina Burrowes , a psychologist and founder of the Consent Collective , an organisation that works with communities and institutions in helping navigate the complex terrain of consent and sexual violence. The Consent Collective has been working closely with the University of Edinburgh for over four years by providing expert psycho-ed...

This week's episode of the Teaching Matters Podcast features a reading by Cathy Bovill, Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement at the Institute for Academic Development, University of Edinburgh and Visiting Fellow at the University of Winchester of her article 'Student Positivity and Creativity as a Source of Hope' that was featured in the October 2020 edition of Teaching Matters.  In Teaching...

Episode 15 is an engaging and heated discussion between Poppy Gerrard Abbott and Amy Andrada, both PhD sociology candidates in the School of Social and Political Science . Poppy and Amy discuss issues such as the role of teaching from a feminist perspective, the link between feminist activism and teaching, and the place of peer support in the University. Amongst many other topics, they q...

In this episode of the Teaching Matters Podcast we examine how the various changes to assessment and feedback have impacted the staff and student experience and whether it reveals something about some of our preconceptions of the student experience. This episode features the voices of Judy Hardy, Professor of Physics Education and Dean of Teaching and Learning in the College of Science and Enginee...

In this episode of the Teaching Matters Podcast, we explore how co-creation helped academic staff navigate the move to hybrid teaching and learning. Student-staff co-creation involves shared decision-making and negotiation of curriculum design or elements of the curriculum. You can watch extended conversations with the contributors on the Edinburgh Hybrid Teaching Exchange and linked below and dis...

This episode is part of an occasional series from The Teaching Matters Podcast where current and previous contributors to the Teaching Matters blog discuss their writing process as well as the social and academic relevance of their work. These discussions give insight into how contributors construct ideas and meaning around teaching and learning. In this episode, Joanna Holtan, Director of the Mas...

This episode is part of an occasional series from The Teaching Matters Podcast where current and previous contributors to the Teaching Matters blog discuss their blogging process as well as the social and academic relevance of their work. These discussions give insight into how contributors construct ideas and meaning around teaching and learning.  In this episode, Johanna Holton, Director of...

In this episode, Colette Sheard, a former student in the School of Mathematics in conversation with David Jordan, Chancellor’s Fellow and Reader at the University of Edinburgh School of Mathematics and Charlotte Desvages, a University Teacher in Mathematical Computing about the ASID Creation Support Project (Adapt, Support, Implement, Deliver) which helped the school prepare for a successful trans...

This episode is part of a limited series on Place-Based Education in hybrid teaching and learning. In part 4, Robbie Nicol, a professor of place based education, and Heidi Smith, a lecturer of outdoor learning at Moray House School of Education and Sport, discuss in-person tutor meetings outdoors and it's capacity to support health and wellbeing. Please feel free to share your comments with us, ei...

This episode is part of a limited series on Place-Based Education in hybrid teaching and learning. In this episode, Heidi Smith a lecturer of outdoor learning at Moray House School of Education and Sport, talks to Susan McCarthy, a student at Moray House about Susan's experience of in-person dissertation supervision outdoors.  Please feel free to share your comments with us, either directly o...

This episode is part of a limited series on Place-Based Education in hybrid teaching and learning.  In part 2, Robbie Nicol, a professor of place based education, and Heidi Smith, a lecturer of outdoor learning at Moray House School of Education and Sport, discuss in-person dissertation supervision outdoors and it's capacity to support health and wellbeing. Please feel free to share your comm...

In this episode, Vel McCune Senior Lecturer and Head of the Learning and Teaching team at the Institute for Academic Development at the University of Edinburgh and Jan McArthur a Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University, discuss how to design assessment for social justice in a hybrid context. You can watch a video of this conversation at the Edinburgh Hybrid Teaching Exchange. 

In this two part series of the Teaching Matters podcast we examine the impact of online engagement on student’s mental health.  We explore the positive sides of online engagement, the downsides, the unintended consequences and what we can do to make things a little bit better. With Esther Mijers Director of Teaching for UG in History Classics & Archaeology University of Edinburgh Wendy Ug...

In this two part series of the Teaching Matters podcast we examine the impact of online engagement on student’s mental health.  We explore the positive sides of online engagement, the downsides, the unintended consequences and what we can do to make things a little bit better.  With Esther Mijers Director of Teaching for UG in History Classics & Archaeology University of Edinburgh&nb...

This first episode is part of a limited series on creative approaches to practicals and field work in online and hybrid spaces. In this episode Robbie Nicol, a professor of place based education, and Heidi Smith, a lecturer of outdoor learning at Moray House School of Education and Sport, discuss the critical role of place based education in hybrid teaching and learning and it's capacity to suppor...

Episode 14 is hosted by Annabel Boud, Programme Manager Policy at the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC), based in London. Led by international development objectives, CSC offers scholarships (undergraduate and postgraduate) to students living in Commonwealth countries to come and study in the UK. Since 1960, nearly 1000 Commonwealth students have studied at The University of Edinburgh unde...

Episodes 12 and 13 are hosted by Diva Mukherji, Vice President Education at Edinburgh University Students’ Association in academic year 2018/19. In both episodes, Diva is joined by Diljeet Bhachu, (PhD student at Reid School of Music, Edinburgh College of Art), Rosie Taylor (BSc Biological Sciences student), and Dr Katie Nicoll Baines (Project Manager, Evidence Base , School of Chem...

Episodes 12 and 13 are hosted by Diva Mukherji, Vice President Education at Edinburgh University Students’ Association in academic year 2018/19. In both episodes, Diva is joined by Diljeet Bhachu, (PhD student at Reid School of Music, Edinburgh College of Art), Rosie Taylor (BSc Biological Sciences student), and Dr Katie Nicoll Baines (Project Manager, Evidence Base , School of Chem...

Episodes 6 to 11 align with  the Lecture Recording mini-series , which Teaching Matters ran between October and December 2018. This series was co-edited by members of the Lecture Recording Programme , and was designed to provide a snapshot of lecture recording at Edinburgh, and present a range of perspectives and experiences. Episodes 10 and 11 follow on from the conversations about the value...