In June, I attended the Assessment in Higher Education International Conference #AssessmentConf23. It was a jam-packed two-day programme of speakers, combining traditional keynote and research presentations with masterclasses, mini-keynotes and ...
September 27, 2023 -
Happy Welcome Week to all of our new and returning students this week! We hope you've all had fun getting acquainted (or reacquainted) with the city in the rain! This ...
September 22, 2023 -
Ready to innovate, an enthusiastic teacher was met with silence and confusion by his students. Here’s how sociologist Dietmar Wetzel responded. ...
September 20, 2023 -
If we’re serious about research-led teaching, we need to tell our students what we don’t – yet – know. Enter teaching-led research! ...
September 20, 2023 -
BILT Student Fellow Dominique Duff interviewed colleagues from four units across the University to share their authentic assessment practices in this blog miniseries. This is a first-year unit designed to ...
September 19, 2023 -
Following the disruptions of the pandemic, most of us moved our teaching online. As the health situation changed, so did our practice and many started to implement hybrid modes of ...
September 14, 2023 -
Welcome back! We hope you all had a restful and enjoyable break and are enjoying the lovely late summer sun we are having this week. News Student Research Journal: Issue ...
September 8, 2023 -
I’ve heard a colleague describe their students as ‘wilted parsley.’ If we want to get the juices flowing again, we have to find out what our students are actually interested ...
September 4, 2023 -
There is no shortage of teaching tips and tricks, and many of them are tried and tested. But the reason why they work is not actually inherent in them ...
September 4, 2023 -
Living between the worlds of student and staff, Postgraduate Research students (PGRs) are an important part of the research ecosystem. To be successful they must make an original contribution to ...
September 4, 2023 -
Back in the Autumn term of 2019 I ran a unit on Timber Engineering. Rather than give lectures I decided to make the unit more authentic by inviting students to ...
August 16, 2023 -
This year, at the University of Bristol Business School, I organised a series of career development seminars titled ‘The Third Way’, aimed specifically at colleagues on a teaching and learning ...
August 10, 2023 -
What does it mean to experience the aesthetic? How is that experience accumulated? How does it feel? And how does knowledge of what came before help us to understand a ...
August 2, 2023 -
In 2019, I became the unit director in Economic Principles, a compulsory unit for first year undergraduate students in Accounting and Finance. Even though students are highly-skilled and the entry ...
July 26, 2023 -
Yesterday was a momentous day. My first, I’m not sure what the right word is here, maybe full, PhD student successfully completed her viva. I have supervised PhD students before, ...
July 21, 2023 -
A Random Act of Kindness (RAK) is something that you do for another person, without any expectation of a return. It is an altruistic act intended to make the world ...
July 20, 2023 -
'Decolonising the curriculum, and our institution as a whole, is an essential part of the University of Bristol's civic responsibility. It is an ongoing process of learning and unlearning which ...
July 20, 2023 -
In this blog I share how peer observation contributed to the development of my teaching practice in small group classes at Bristol. I discuss changes I brought to my teaching ...
July 14, 2023 -
A series of short workshops suitable for new Programme Directors or existing Programme Directors seeking a refresher. ...
July 11, 2023 -
Tomorrow is the Bristol Pride Parade and to help you get in the mood we are dedicating this issue of the Briefing to all our colleagues who champion acceptance and ...
July 7, 2023 -
After the Computer Science in the City Showcase event on the 3rd of May, Hannah Cowell (Engaged Learning Adviser), Peter Oliver (from the ILO), Luke Sweeney (Project client, KWMC) and ...
July 3, 2023 -
On Friday the 23rd June, at 17:27, I sent in the next version of our book for review! At this point maybe a recap would be a good idea. At ...
June 28, 2023 -