Author: Dr Aisling Tierney
BILT Lecturer with a love for sustainability, interdisciplinarity and heritage.
No matter the discipline, educators can employ gamified pedagogical perspectives and methodologies to embrace new ways of engaging students, challenging ...
January 18, 2021 -
The EAUC, Environmental Association of Universities and Colleges, is an influential leader worldwide on all things sustainability and climate change. I’ve attended several annual EAUC ...
November 26, 2020 -
In the spirit of having a bit of fun with digital-only teaching spaces, I propose some ways to lighten the ...
August 24, 2020 -
As universities continue to be affected by the Covid-19 situation, colleagues are asked to redesign the curriculum for online and ...
June 25, 2020 -
A few months ago, I wrote a blogpost on urban spaces and the concept of the civic university. This topic ...
June 24, 2020 -
Between the 18th and 21st of May, the fifth annual Sustainability in Higher Education Conference took place, jointly hosted by ...
June 15, 2020 -
Chinese higher education institutions are ahead of the rest of the world in adapting to the Covid-19 pandemic, testing new ...
April 3, 2020 -
For some students, their teaching assistants are the biggest source of contact time at University. They co-run our labs, co-deliver ...
November 13, 2019 -
Since antiquity, humanity’s greatest minds have stretched the boundaries of science, art and innovation. Astronomer, philosopher and mathematician Hypatia was ...
November 11, 2019 -
Who doesn’t like an adventure, a dive into the unknown, an unexpected challenge and the possibility of transforming who you ...
October 31, 2019 -
The University of Bristol has pledged to make the city a better place1. Our research institutes are leading the charge ...
October 16, 2019 -
Problem based learning (PBL) is an approach to teaching that supports creative and complex problem-solving. It seeks to address ...
October 8, 2019 -
The following post was written by Ash Tierney, a Research Associate and Project Manager for Bristol Futures. Ash has been ...
May 16, 2019 -