PTAS Projects 2020-21 to 2022-23

March 2023

Name: Mentoring in partnership: Empowering School Based Teacher Educators to develop their practice

School: Moray House School of Education and Sport

Team: Dr Sue Chapman

Name: Evaluating institutional approaches to portfolio use

School: Biological Science, Biological Sciences, University of Leicester, School of Life Sciences, Pharmacy and Chemistry, Kingston University London, Biomedical Sciences

Team: Dr Alison Cullinane, Dr Sarah Gretton, Dr Nigel Page, Dr Ruth Deighton, Biomedical Sciences

Name: Developing evidence-based guidelines to reduce statistics anxiety among university students

School: Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Team: Dr Josiah King, Dr Umberto Noe, Dr Emma Waterston, Dr Aja Murray, Dr Tom Booth

Name: Nature connection sessions for student wellbeing

School: Deanery of Biomedical Sciences, Chaplaincy Centre

Team: Dr Hannah McNeilly, Dr Kitty Wheater

Name: The impact of frequency and scale of coursework in STEM subjects on student learning and wellbeing

School: Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy

Team: Dr David Quinn, Dr Konstantina Zerva, Dr Ross Galloway, Dr John Loveday

Name: Sustainable Careers Project

School: Moray House School of Education and Sport, Careers Service

Team: Mr. Stephen Sowa, Dr. Ramsey Affifi, Dr Sharon Maguire,

Name: Social Theory Walks: The City of Edinburgh as a teaching space

School: Moray House School of Education and Sport

Team: Dr Aliandra Barlete, Moray House School of Education and Sport

Name: Decolonising Counselling and Psychotherapy: Reflections from Psychosocial Perspectives

School: Health in Social Science

Team: Dr Nini Fang, Rhea Gandhi, Dr Mariya Levitanus,

Name: Computational thinking in data science: Strategies for Effective Learning

School: Engineering

Team: Danai Korre, Jonathan Corney

October 2022

Name: Making connections to the ‘real’ world: further developing teacher vision in Initial Teacher Education

School :  Moray House School of Education and Sport

Team: Murray Craig, Nicola Carse, Paul McMillan, Mike Jess, Karen Munro, Mary Bovill,  Zoè

Name: Research staff: the missing link in teaching and learning?

School:  Geosciences

Team:  Cecile Menard, Gabi Hegerl, Simon Shackley, Dan Swanton

Name: Paws on Campus: A Feasibility and Acceptability Study of a Canine-assisted Intervention for Student Wellbeing

School:  Health in Social Science

Team:  Jo Williams, Andrew Gardiner, Jenny Leeder, Roxanne Hawkins, Laura Wauthier

Name: Crossing the Line: Developing an Interdisciplinary Toolkit for Higher Education

School:  Moray House School of Education and Sport

Team:  David Overend, Seongsook Choi, Andy Cross, Madison Kurchik

Name: Marking matters: An enhancement-oriented investigation of marking trends and practices in the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh

School:  Social and Political Science

Team:  Ian Russell, Andrew Bowman, Hazel Gray

Name: Sensing in the Community.

School:  Chemistry

Team:  Helen Szoor-McElhinney, Stewart Smith, Hannah Chalmers, Chris Mowat, Phil Larkman

Name: Set Them Free! Open Publishing of INF1B Course Materials

School:  Informatics

Team:  Vidminas Vizgirda, Fiona McNeill, Brian Mitchell

2021-2022 Projects

March 2022

Name: Our sustainable campus: developing a technology-assisted interactive self-guided learning tour of University of Edinburgh’s sustainable buildings

School:  Edinburgh College of Art

Team:  W. Victoria Lee, Iraklis Pantopoulosz

Name: How is statistical study design and statistical analysis taught in the life sciences? A survey of undergraduate programmes across the UK

School:  Edinburgh Medical School  [Biomedical Sciences]

Team: Crispin Jordan, Nicola Romanò, Nick Colegrave, Kasia Banas

Name: Assessing medical students’ preparedness to engage in clinical research practice.

School:  Edinburgh Medical School  [Clinical Sciences]

Team: Danielle Marlow, Jeremy Hughes, Carol Porteous

Name: A gamification approach to enhancing student empathy towards laboratory animals

School:  Edinburgh Medical School  [Biomedical Sciences]

Team: John Menzies, Richard Fitzpatrick

Name: Living and Studying at Home: Commuter Students in the Aftermath of the Pandemic

School:  Moray House School of Education and Sport

Team: Sheila Riddell, Hazel Christie, Laura Cattell, Rachael King, Sofia Shan, Lyn Tett

Name: Recreating the BBC class calculator: A project in open science pedagogy

School:  Social and Political Science

Team: Tod van Gunten, Roxanne Connelly, Vernon Gayle, Kevin Ralston

Name: A Data-driven Approach to Supporting Reflection in Edinburgh Teaching Award Scheme Applicants

School: Mathematics

Team: Anna Wood, George Kinnear, Susan Rhind, Hazel Christie, Ross Galloway, Rayya Ghul

October 2021

Name: Hybrid Pioneers: A cross-institute Action Group 2021-2023

School:  Moray House School of Education and Sport

Team:  Do Coyle, Heidi Smith, James Lamb, Pete Evans, ML White, Janet de Vigne, Ashley Simpson, Murray Craig, Wendy Timmons, Anya Clayworth, Thomas Chaurin, Juan Jose (JJ) Miranda

Name: Improving the quality of assessment-feedback in postgraduate education; Co- creation of a digital training resource

School:  Edinburgh Medical School (Deanery of Clinical Sciences)

Team:  Valentina Ferlito, Chris McKenzie, Susan Morrow, Veronica Davey, Lindsay Rutherford, Vanessa Mather, Kacper Lyszkiewicz

Name: Enabling mature age working class undergraduate students to succeed at the University of Edinburgh

School:  Moray House School of Education and Sport

Team:  Ian Fyfe, Gray Fraser, Callum McGregor, Stuart Moir, Margaret Petrie, Andie Reynolds, Neil Speirs, Sarah Ward

Name: Amplifying the student voice: co-creation of resources to facilitate student feedback on learning and teaching across the University

School:  Mathematics

Team:  Nikola Popovic, Fiona McNeill, Tara Gold, Patrick Walsh, Paul McLaughlin, Heather McQueen, Heather Yorston, Richard Gratwick, Tanya Lubicz-Nawrocka, Fumiko Narumi-Munro, Jessie Paterson, Cathy Bovill, Alex Burford, Phil Marston, George Kinnear

2020-21 Projects

March 2021

Name: Developing a framework for inclusiveness in internationalisation.

School:  Moray House School of Education and Sport

Team:  Omolabake Fakunle, Velda McCune, Seongsook Choi, Nasar Meer

Name: Open to All? Faculty Development for Equitable Participation in Clinical Teaching

School:  Edinburgh Medical School [Medical Education]

Team: Tim Fawns, Derek Jones, Gill Aitken, Aleksandra Gulasaryan, Ian Lee

Name: Equality, diversity and inclusion in the curriculum: developing a strategic approach in the medical school

School:  Edinburgh Medical School [Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences]

Team:  Jeni Harden, Karen Chapman, Gwenetta Curry, Dawn Livingstone

Name: Co-creating curriculum through the course Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World

School:  Social and Political Science

Team:  Meryl Kenny, Fiona Mackay, Radhika Govinda, Sarah Liu

Name: Co-creating an inclusive self-care curriculum to enhance wellbeing and learning for social work students

School:  Social and Political Science

Team: Pearse McCusker, Autumn Roesch-March, Mary Mitchell, Sarah Rose

Name: Developing digital and hybrid mathematics support for long-term improvements in quality and accessibility.

School:  Mathematics

Team:  David Quinn, Konstantina Zerva, Steven O'Hagan

Name: Beginning university during SARS-CoV-2 restrictions: meeting the needs of students belonging to a Widening Participation group

School:  Edinburgh Medical School

Team:  Donna Quinn, Jessie Paterson, Alan Jaap, David Hope

Name: Critical Thinking Retreat: Using situated simulations to develop researcher positioning in master’s students

School:  Moray House School of Education and Sport

Team:  Julie Smith, Edgar Rodriguez-Dorans, Andrew Drybrough, Sofia Shan

Name: Enhancing students' experience through co-constructing academic community

School: Moray House School of Education and Sport

Team:  Farah Akbar, Xiaomei Sun, Chia-Ying (Annie) Yang

Name: Integrating student participation and EDI with Board of Studies: towards a community of critical readers

School:  Literatures, Languages and Cultures

Team: Benjamin Bateman, Chris Perkins, Katherine Inglis, Iona Macintyre, Jackie Barnhart

Name: VR Lab: Enable Online Laboratory Teaching through Virtual Reality

School:  Engineering

Team:  Quan Li, Caroline Kirk, Florian Fusseis

Name: Exploring and engaging with student perceptions of digital citizenship

School/Equivalent:  Information Services Group

Team:  Victoria (Vicki) Madden, Louise Connelly, Melissa Highton

Name: Exploring the relationship between Learning Technologists and teaching staff

School: Edinburgh Medical School [Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences]

Team:  Brendan Owers, Chris McKenzie, Eoghan Clarkson

Name: The creation and use of low-fidelity models - key surgical skill competence and confidence in final year veterinary students

School: Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

Team: Jamie-Leigh Thompson, Jill MacKay, Kelly Bowit Blacklock

October 2020

Name: Student-led portfolio assessment - large pre-honours cross-university elective

School: Social and Political Science

Team: Michael Barany

Name: Decolonising the Business School Curriculum

School:  Edinburgh Business School

Team: Rashné Limki

Name: Decoding the Interdisciplines: Helping teachers & learners discover unfamiliar ways of thinking

School:  Edinburgh College of Art

Team: Neil Mulholland, Richard Baxstrom, Angela McClanahan, Julie-Ann Delaney, Frances Davis

Name: Empathy and compassion in work and life

School:   Edinburgh Medical School

Team: Liz Grant, Harriet Harris, Jessie Paterson, Joanna Alexjuk, Pam Smith, Kitty Wheater, Lissette Aviles, Marti Balaam

Name: Supporting teacher reflection through visualisation of classroom practices data

School:  Mathematics

Team: George Kinnear, Hazel Christie, Jill MacKay, Anna Wood

Name: Empowering student teachers to improve classroom practice using the Lesson Study model

School: Moray House School of Education and Sport

Team: Paul McMillan, Mike Jess, Mary Bovill, Murray Craig, Wilma Irvine, Andrew Horrell

Name: Can a pandemic evidence-synthesis group become a model for student development and enhanced learning?

School:  Edinburgh Medical School

Team: Ruth McQuillan, Neneh Rowa-Dewar, Harry Campbell, Harish Nair, Evropi Theodoratou, Marshall Dozier, Gwenetta Curry, Emilie McSwiggan, Durga Kulkarni, Kayla Ostrishko, Madhurima Nundy, Thulani Ashcroft, Damilola Iduve, Ashmika Motee, Jasmin Rostron, Farirai (Farrie) Nzvere.

Name: Keeping the Door Open: Curating, developing and evolving University of Edinburgh teaching in spaces and places within the city and beyond

School:  Moray House School of Education and Sport

Team: Robbie Nicol, Beth Christie, Dave Clarke, Catherine Dunn, Peter Higgins, Heidi Smith

Name: Researching widening participation in Engineering: Enrolment, Progression, Attainment and Support Strategy

School: Engineering

Team: Wasiu Popoola, Dave Laurenson, Hannah Chalmers

Name: Exploring online learning as an avenue for equity and decolonial praxis amid the COVID crisis

School:  Social and Political Science

Team: Sam Spiegel, Nelson Oppong, George Karekwaivanane, Jean-Benoit Falisse

Name: Developing a tutoring network in Informatics for young people in schools in deprived areas

School:  Informatics

Team: Fiona McNeill, Kasia Kokowska, Siang Jun Teo