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Find out more about the Curriculum Framework theme Global and civic engagement
December 9, 2024 –
The Practice Aerosols in School is a community engaged learning project that supports postgraduates in the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Aerosol Science to apply their research skills in service of the “real world” concerns of a local community. Postgraduates (PGRs) work directly …
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December 12, 2022 –
Read the full series School: Biological Sciences Program: Biology Units: Ecology (2ndYear), Conservation Biology (2ndYear), Final Year Project (BSc and MSci) How is sustainability included in these units? How did you decide what was appropriate? In Ecology, I took over an existing unit and reframed …
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December 12, 2022 –
Read the full series School: Interdisciplinary (based in Geography) Unit name: Sustainable Development What is the unit and what does it cover? It’s an interdisciplinary open unit which takes a challenge-focussed approach to teaching the UN’s SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). The main body of the …
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December 12, 2022 –
Read the full series Programme: Civil Engineering How is sustainability included in it? Most of the design work in the programme is iterative rather than transformative, with sustainability teaching emerging organically from the content. We don’t have a sustainability stream or pathway or teaching group …
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December 15, 2021 –
Students in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies have the opportunity to work with a real NGO on a business planning activity. The units have been developed and supported with the support of the Engaged Learning team. You can find more about engaged learning on …
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June 9, 2021 –
This case study shares an approach to ‘authentic’ learning using an example from a unit I direct for first-year Innovation students at the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (the Centre). My teaching approach is participatory, student-led, and grounded in principles of inclusion, civic engagement, and …
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May 12, 2021 –
This case study explores the journey that staff and students have undertaken at the University of Bristol Medical School (BRMS) towards creating a decolonised and diverse medical curriculum, culminating in the formal recognition of a partnership between medical school staff and the BAME Medical Student …
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