PTAS Projects 2015-16 to 2019-20

2019-2020

May 2020

Name: Predicting academic attainment in case-based discussion board assessments

School: Edinburgh Medical School

Team: Louise Buckley, Oluseye Ogunbayo, Chantelle Aftab, Uzma Tufail-Hanif, Heather Ellis

Name: Using 3D-printing technology to create novel simulator models

School: Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

Team: Megan Madden, Anna Sunol-Iniesta, Richard Collins

Name: J-YAP Inter-University Support Project

School: Literatures, Languages and Cultures

Team: Fumiko Narumi-Munro, Sakie Chiba-Mooney, Akihiko Shimizu, Atsuko Moriyama,Helen Parker

Name: Assessment Literacy for Graduate Attribute Enhancement (ALGAE) in Biomedical Sciences

School: Edinburgh Medical School

Team: Kevin Robertson, Susan Rhind, Kirsty Hughes

Name: Supporting criteria-based marking

School: Informatics

Team: Paul Anderson, Susan Rhind, Anna Wood

Name: Promoting support to succeed and progress

School: GeoSciences

Team: Rachel Hunt, Clare Barnes, Kay Douglas, Andy Cross, Neil Speirs, Tom Clemens, Krithika Srinivasan, Niamh Shortt, Anthony Newton, Andrew Dugmore, Susan Orr, Katy McPhail

Name: Personal Values in Postgraduate University Student Engagement

School: Health in Social Science

Team: Susannah Johnston, Mark Hoelterhoff, Heema Ajeet Gokani (RA), Rea Michalopoulou (RA), Emma Leyland (RA)

Name: Through the patient's eyes: using virtual reality to teach empathy to medical and nursing students

School: Edinburgh Medical School

Team: Janet Skinner, Vicki McCorkell, Lorraine Close, Susie Roy, Christopher Mckenzie, Kacper Lyszkiewicz, Alan Gilchrist, Kirsty Egan, Scott Clarke, Jenni Tocher

Name: Aligning skills, assessments and feedback: a programme-level scheme

School: Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Team: Sue Widdicombe, Anne Templeton, James Donaldson

October 2019

Name: Do you really belong? Understanding the BAME attainment gap at Edinburgh University

School: Edinburgh Medical School

Team: Mohini Gray, David Hope, Jeni Harden, Meyra Coban, Kamya Choudhary, Sarah Shemery

Name: Establishing the Dick Vet Immersive Simulation Environment (DiVISE)

School: Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

Team: Kristina Pollock, Stephen Greenhalgh, Jessie Paterson, Eoghan Clarkson, Rachael Gregson, Julie Duncan, Susan Rhind

Name: Conversations, community and collegiality: Exploring the effect of blogging on teaching and learning practice

School: USG (Institute for Academic Development)

Team: Jenny Scoles, Hazel Christie, Nina Morris, Karen Howie

Name: Evaluation of the innovative, interdisciplinary, experiential learning opportunities EPSRC Our Health offer

School: Chemistry

Team: Helen Szoor-McElhinney, Alette Willis

Name: Developing a disability studies module in the School of Health in Social Science

School: History, Classics and Archaeology

Team: Ellen Blunsdon, Alette Willis, Mia Davies

Name: Mentoring for success: Co-producing a meaningful workplace mentoring scheme

School: Moray House School of Education and Sport

Team: Marlies Kustatscher, Luke Addison, Kristina Konstantoni, Liz Latto, Lynn McNair, Maggie Morrison, Kay Tisdall

Name: Creation and evaluation of immersive simulation digital media

School: Edinburgh Medical School

Team: Val McDowall, Barbara Findlay, Alan Gilchrist

Name: Student-led neuroscience outreach project aimed at a diverse range of high school pupils

School: Edinburgh Medical School

Team: Dorothy Tse, Jane Haley, Anna Norton

Name: Enhancing International Student Experience at History, Classics & Archaeology

School: History, Classics and Archaeology

Team: Wendy Ugolini, Talat Ahmed, Ewen Cameron, Amanda Campbell

2018-2019

March 2019

Name: Lecture recordings in everyday study practice

School: Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Team: Eva Murzyn (and Kasia Banas, University of Glasgow.)

Name: Lecture segmentation and transcription

School: Engineering

Team: James Hopgood, Ilie Galit, James Hanratty

Name: Edinburgh Award Evaluation

School: Edinburgh Business School

Team: Rona Doig, Mary Brennan, Sophie Mitchinson, Kirsty Stewart, Lucie Stokes

Name: Supporting success for widening participation students

School: Edinburgh Medical School

Team: Avril Dewar, David Hope, Alan Jaap

Name: Widening participation in Maths circles

School: Mathematics

Team: Ben Goddard, Francesca Iezzi, Zoe Wyatt

Name: Supporting transition to university mathematics with blended learning

School: Mathematics

Team: Richard Gratwick, George Kinnear, Toby Bailey, Ruth Forrester, Grace Sansom, Anna Wood

Name: Uncovering uncertainties linked to widening participation

School: History, Classics and Archaeology

Team: Lucy Grig, Esther Mijers, Sandra Bingham, Anne Brockington, Craig Phillips, Guillermo Diaz de Liano

Name: Widening Veterinary Outreach to the Scottish Highlands and Islands

School: Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

Team: Neil Hudson, Sally Anne Argyle, Brian Mather, Fraser Murdoch, Patrick Pollock, Susan Rhind

Name: Using UX research methods to inform online course design at Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies.

School: Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

Team: Nick Daniels

Name: Study abroad and disciplinary thinking and practising

School: History, Classics and Archaeology

Team: Robert Mason, Chris Perkins, Stephan Malinowski

Name: Building biological models in minecraft

School: Edinburgh Medical School (Biomedical Sciences)

Team: Melanie Stefan, Richard Fitzpatrick

Name: Understand learning pathways with curriculum analytics

School: Informatics

Team: Yi-Shan Tsai, Diego Rates, Dragan Gašević

October 2018

Name: Classroom practices and lecture recording

School: Mathematics

Team: George Kinnear, Pamela Docherty, Ross Galloway, Jill MacKay, Susan Rhind

Name: E-portfolios and developing awareness of graduate attributes

School: Social and Political Science

Team: Stephen Hill, Patrick Theiner, Andrew Drever, Thomas Charman, Luba Zatsepina McCreadie

Name: Pre-entry online Chemistry course - widening participation

School : Chemistry

Team Members : Anna-Maria Maciejuk, Jennifer Ross, Michael Seery

Name: HCA Writing Centre

School: History, Classics and Archaeology

Team: Jacob Blanc, Guillaume Robin, Joanna Rowland, Aaron Pelttari, Louise Blanke

Name: Engagement and feedback tools for students

School: GeoSciences

Team: Andrew Cross, Hannah Cornish, Steve Earl, Jule Hildmann, Margaret Petrie, Marion Smith, Ali Grant

Name: Learning glass: evaluating its use by teachers and students

School: GeoSciences

Team: Sebastian Hennige, Meredith Corey, Murray Roberts, Lea-Anne Henry, Aaron De Veres, Dillberto-Cascio, Nadia Jogee, Stuart Nichol, Jon Jack

Name: EdAR – Educational Apps in Augmented and Mixed Reality

School: Engineering

Team: Andrew Sherlock, Sian Bayne, Frank Mill, Timothy Drysdale, Tim Fawns, Kirsten Lloyd

2017-2018

March 2018

Name: Lecture recordings - domestic and international student comparison

School: Edinburgh Medical School

Team: Alan Jaap, Avril Dewar, David Hope

Name: Teach learn replay

School: School of Engineering (Mechanical)

Team: Frank Mill, Enzo Mangano, Antonis Giannopoulos, David Laurenson, James Hopgood, Nicholas Polydorides, Cinzia Pusceddu-Gangarosa

Name: Podcasts to enhance the online distance learning experience

School: Edinburgh Medical School (BTO)

Team: Emily O’Reilly, Kim Picozzi, Andrew Strankman

Name: Lecture capture - online learning

School: School of Social & Political Sciences (SSPS)

Team: Kate Symons, Hazel Gray, Jean-Benoit Falisse

Name: Preparing graduates to manage acutely unwell patients

School: Edinburgh Medical School

Team: Scott Clarke, Catriona Bell, David Hope, Janet Skinner

Name: Employability mismatch in veterinary education

School: Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

Team: Kirsty Hughes, Susan Rhind, Carolyn Morton, Andrew Gardiner, Rachel Whittington, Jane Brown, Syafiqah Binti Mohd Shuel, Ashley Genetti, Amanda Podgurski

Name: Embedding a culture of career learning in the GeoSciences

School / Unit: Careers Service

Team: Sarah Innes, Saran Sohi, Xinchi Zhang

Name: Students-staff partnership in Biomedical Sciences 2

School: Edinburgh Medical School (Biomedical Sciences)

Team: Celine Caquineau, Dimitra Anglou, VP (name protected), Sabrina Shafiq

Name: LLC Knowledge exchange.

School: Literatures, Languages and Cultures

Team: Sarah Dunnigan, Anna McKay, Sarah Stewart

Name: Archaeology at the Centre for Open learning (COL): developing an accessible and inclusive pedagogical approach to fieldwork

School: Centre for Open Learning (COL)

Team: Rachael King, Alex Hale, Kristian Pedersen

Name: International students' participation PGT first semester

School: Centre for Open Learning

Team: Cathy Benson, Camilla Green, Joan Cutting, Seongsook Choi

Name: Exploring learning and assessment practices in University and professional workplaces.

School: Edinburgh Medical School

Team: Tim Fawns, Tamara Mulherin, Gill Aitken, Emeritus Prof Dai Hounsell

Name: Embedding employability in the course approval process.

School: History, Classics & Archaeology (HCA)

Team: Esther Mijers, Emma Hunter, Craig Phillips, Azwa Shamsuddin

Name: Design-thinking frameworks for future-directing bio-innovation

School: School of Biological Sciences

Team: Naomi Nakayama, Larissa Pschetz, Elise Cachat

October 2017

Name: Lecture Recording for Inclusive Education

School: Moray House School of Education

Team: Jeremy Knox, Yuchen Wang, George Low

Name: Enhancing Engagement with Media Hopper Replay - A Comparative Study

School: School of Engineering

Team: Dave Laurenson, James Hopgood

Name: Developing research methods, data analysis and statistics course (RMDAS): engaging students in curriculum development

School: Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

Team: Louise Connelly, Jessica Martin, Julie Dickson

Name: Broadening Physics Student Experience and Learning Through a High School Mentoring Programme

School: Physics and Astronomy

Team Member: Jean-Christophe Denis

Name: R.L. Stevenson's 'The Bottle Imp': a graphic adaption

School: Literatures, Languages and Cultures

Team: Michelle Keown, Harvey Dingwall

Name: Supporting Transition to the Workplace through Entrustable Profession Activities: Student and Tutor Perspectives

School: Edinburgh Medical School

Team: Katy Rankin, Alan Jaap, Helen Cameron

Name: Developing a framework for research-led virtual field trips: Physical and social issues of the natural hazards of Ecuador

School: GeoSciences

Team: Andrew Bell, Meredith Corey, Sophie Butc

Name: Climbing an ALP (Assessment Literacy Pyramid): A Programme Level Approach to Developing Assessment Literacy

School: Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

Team: Andrew Brown, Jill Mackay, Kirsty Hughes, Caroline Mosley, Sharon Boyd, Susan Rhind

Name: Comparing the First Year Student Transition Experience in the Biomedical Sciences Programme at the University of Edinburgh and Zhejiang University

School: Edinburgh Medical School (Biomedical Sciences)

Team: Michael Daw, Sofia (Shuanghui) Shan, Deborah Shaw

Name: Using Media Hopper to enhance peer-teaching and develop Professional Judgement and Decision Making Expertise in Student Physical Education Teachers

School: Moray House School of Education

Team: Andrew Horrell, John Sproule, Sian Bayne, Amanda Martindale, Barrie Barreto

Name: Engagement with the discourse of professional development

School or equivalent: English Language Education

Team: Lindsay Knox, Jill Northcott, Jessie Paterson, Catriona Bell, Michaela Hubmann

Name: Data Fairs, Matchmaking and Collaboration Patterns for Improving Data Science Teaching

School: Edinburgh College of Art

Team: Dave Murray-Rust, Benjamin Bach, Anouk Lang, Catherine Lai

Name: Vets at "Play"

School: Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

Team: Jessie Paterson, Alexander Corbishley, Jill MacKay, Susan Rhind

2016-2017

March 2017

Name: ShinyStats: A new interactive and engaging statistics training application to complement existing resources

Team: Riinu Ots, Paula J W Smith, Catherine A Shaw, Uzma Tufail-Hanif, Ewen M Harrison, Stephen J Wigmore, O James Garden

School: Edinburgh Medical School (Deanery of Clinical Sciences)

Name: CollaboratED

Team: Denitsa Petrova, John Lee, Alex Burford, Eli Appleby-Donald, Geoff Lee, Sabina Savadova

School: Edinburgh College of Art

Name: Lecture recording in mathematics and physics

Team: Pamela Docherty, Chris Sangwin, Ross Galloway, Judy Hardy, Toby Bailey, Anna Wood

School: Mathematics

Name: Enriching recording lectures through linking and creation of rich media content

Team: John Lee, Denitsa Petrova, Stuart Anderson, Edmund Farrow, Trey Connelly

School: Informatics and Edinburgh College of Art

Name: QualRec: Qualitative exploration of staff and student engagement, experience and behaviour with Lecture Recording

Team: Jill MacKay, Jessie Paterson, Brian Mather, Eoghan Clarkson, Kirsty Hughes, Susan Rhind, Sarah Chinnery

School: Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

Name: How is good feedback expressed? A corpus analysis of feedback provided by Edinburgh University Students' Association Teaching Awards (Best Feedback) Nominees

Team: Derek Jones, Tanya Lubicz-Nawrocka, Tim Fawns, Gill Aitken, Tamara Mulherin

School: Edinburgh Medical School (Centre for Medical Education

Name: Exploring students' experiences of finding and accessing academic writing support

Team: Jenna Mann, Alison Thomas

School/Unit: Institute for Academic Development

Name: Playful Learning - evaluation and development of OER Board Game Jams

Team: Eva Murzyn, Stephanie (Charlie) Farley

School: Philosophy, Psychology and Language Science

Name: Promoting a learning community through peer feedback - navigating the perspectives of staff and students

Team: Neill Storrar, Helen Cameron, David Hope

School: Edinburgh Medical School (Centre for Medical Education)

Name: The role of the Programme Director in Taught Postgraduate Programmes

Team: Gill Aitken, Sarah Henderson, Anna Meredith, Sharron Ogle, Elizabeth Stevenson, Ruth McQuillan, Paul Travers, Jenna Fyfe

School: Edinburgh Medical School (Centre for Medical Education)

Name: Helping students to write readable code - a peer approach using ACJ

Team: Paul Anderson, Timothy Hospedales, Ross McKenzie, Anna Wood

School: Informatics

Name: Exploring the attitudes and learning needs of student nurses in relation to care home nursing

Team: Tonks Fawcett, Julie Watson, Jo Hockley, Sarah Rhynas

School: Health in Social Sciences

Name: Teaching for critical thinking in business: developing the active teacher to support student critical thinking

Team: Sarah Ivory, Andrea English, Mary Bovill, Diana Murdoch

School: Edinburgh Business School

Name: Improving the mathematics diagnostic test

Team: George Kinnear, Chris Sangwin, Toby Bailey

School: Mathematics

Name: How do our teachers prepare their students to face wicked problems?

Team: Velda McCune, Sharon Boyd, Andy Cross, Pete Higgins, Rebekah Tauritz

School/Unit: Institute for Academic Development

Name: A curriculum for climate justice: a collaborative investigation of the challenges and opportunities for climate change education through a social justice lens

Team: Callum McGregor, Beth Christie

School: Moray House School of Education

Name: Coding club - a peer-to-peer learning environment to surmount statistics anxiety and code fear

Team: Isla Myers-Smith, Christopher Lucas, Kyle Dexter, Albert Phillimore, Christina Coakley, Gergana Daskalova, John Godlee, Haydn Thomas, Sandra Angers-Blondin, Pedro Miranda, Samuel Kellerhals, Claudia van den Berg

School: GeoSciences

Name: Becoming agents of change: an examination of teachers' perceptions of how the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PgCAP) develops their agency as teachers

Team: Hazel Christie, Andrea English, Catriona Bell, Holly Linklater, Tanya Lubicz-Nawrocka, Heather McQueen, Natasa Pantic, Stephen Ryan, Diana Murdoch

October 2016

Name: "What are you going to do with that?" The HCA Degree and Employability

Team: Esther Mijers, Craig Phillips

Name: Developing Context-Based Physical Chemistry Laboratory Investigations

Team: Scott Moonie, Ariana Jones, Will Kew, Michael Seery

Name: Experiential learning in communities: developing and testing a framework for evaluation

Team: Andrew Cross, Simon Beames, Margaret Petrie, Rebecca Samaras, Yula Hildmann

Name: 'From the door of our tent' : an online journal of creative and contemporary ethnographic work composed and curated by undergraduate students of the University of Edinburgh

Team: John Harries, Lauren Wilks, Laura Major, Hal Morrissey Gillman

Name: Formative assessment: how useful is it, who does it help the most, and how can we improve it further?

Team: David Hope, Peter Moles, Susan Rhind, Avril Dewar, Helen Cameron

Name: Exploring flexible modes of online education

Team: Areti Manataki, Dragan Gasevic, Anne-Marie Scott, Srecko Joksimovic, Vitomir Kovanovic

Name: Skills development and employability in the Business School Undergraduate curriculum

Team: Peter Moles, Ros Claase, Diane Gill, Rachel Blythe, Rebecca Valentine

Name: Asking the right question 

Team: Christine Sinclair, Paul Anderson, Hamish Macleod, Jessie Paterson, Anna Wood

Name: Making students curious: using an app-based walking tour as a pedagogical tool

Team: Niki Vermeulen, Steven Sturdy, Anna Groundwater, Nicola Osborne, Jonanthan Silvertown

2015-2016 Projects

March 2016

Name: "A live pulse": Yik Yak for understanding teaching, learning and assessment at Edinburgh

Team: Sian Bayne, Bea Alex, Louise Connelly, Claire Grover, Nicola Osborne

Name: Physical activity in medical education: a flipped classroom approach 

Team: Jeni Harden, Sam Fawkner, Danijela Gasevic, Paul Kelly, Chris Oliver

Name: The Law School history wall project

Team: Fiona McLachlan, John Lowrey, Richard Anderson, Lesley McAra, Lisa Kendall

Name: Every student a researcher: supporting the use of blogging as a form of student assessment

Team: Nina Morris, Hazel Christie

Name: Learning about the limitations of medicine - exploring barriers to effective learning

Team: Shaun Qureshi, Janet Skinner, Morwenna Wood

Name: Development and evaluation of a contextualised intervention to embed resilience training into the core veterinary curriculum

Team: Rachel Whittington, Stacy Spielman, Rob Ward, Jessie Paterson, Victoria Macklin, Susan Rhind, Kirsty Hughes, Brian Mather.

Name: The English Bonus? Assessing the impact of non-credit English and academic writing

Team: Sophia Woodman, Cathy Benson, Ellen Boeren, Jill Northcott

Name: Theory on stage

Team: Isabelle Darmon, Hugo Gorringe, Alexandra Smith

Name: 'Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn'. Empowering postgraduate students in history to become better teachers

Team: Catriona Ellis, Emma Hunter, Esther Mijers, Karen Howie, Stephen McDowall, Jane O'Neill, Amy Burge

Name: Implementing lessons learned on embedded study skills provision for first year undergraduate students of Politics & International Relations

Team: Carmen Gebhard, Julie Kaarbo, Luba Zatsepina

Name: Creating opportunities for students through the development of an anatomy bodypainting workbook

Team: Jenna Langschmidt, Julian Camilleri-Brennan

Name: Telling it like it is! Nursing students exchanging knowledge and experience through stories

Team: Jessica MacLaren, Maggie Carson, Alison Wood

Name: Pre-laboratory peer assessed skills in inorganic chemistry and PRELAB-e (Pre-laboratory e-resources to enable student preparation of practical work)

Team: Stephen Moggach, Dusan Uhrin, James Pankhurst, Adam Michalchuk, Scott Moonie, Michael Seery

Name: Enhancing assessment literacy amongst PGT students and scorer reliability amongst PGT staff

Claudia Rosenhan, Farah Akbar

Name: Between paradigms: building competence in social sciences for students of medical sciences

Team: Judith Sim, Hannah Lesshafft, Sandalia Genus

October 2015

Name: Diversity Reading List

Team: Simon Fokt, James Collin, Jie Gao

Name: The disciplinary effect on early career teachers

Team: Fiona Quinlan-Pluck, Emily Woollen, Amy Burge, Sharon Boyd, Nadia Tuzi, Catherine Lyall

Name: Approaches to teaching human empathy

Team: Kirsty Hughes, Eva Joanna Alexjuk, Jessie Paterson, Rachel Whittington, Stacy Spielman

Name: Trading simulation platforms in finance education

Team: Malcolm Kirkup, Arman Eshraghi, Neil Thomas

Name: How do students and staff view assessment: 'Of', 'In' or 'As' learning?

Team: Gale Macleod, Hugh Richards, Neil Lent, Pete Higgins, Rachel O'Neill, Alan MacPherson, John Telford

Name: Using gesture recognition system for hand hygiene training

Team: Caroline Mosley, Catriona Bell, John Mosley, Kay Aitchison, Susan Rhind

Name: What does good teaching look like to students?

Team: Tanya Lubicz-Nawrocka, Imogen Wilson, Adam Bunni, Patrick Garratt, Paul Bradley

Name: Evaluating professional internships for PhD Students

Team: Caroline Pope, Joshua Stapp, Lisa Scattergood, Sharon Maguire, Susan Bird, Tania Morgan Alcantarilla

Name: Ways of thinking and practising in IMES

Team: Majied Robinson

Name: Peer assessing laboratory skills

Team: Michael Seery, Amy Price, Euan Doidge, Helen O'Connor

Name: Understanding the learning experience from voluntary work

Team: Dr Marion Smith, Verionica Adamson