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18 September 2023

Towards joyful ways of learning

Dr Lauren White, along with colleagues from the SMI, Library and SU are working on a project to consider how the process of creative learning can be a joyful & transformative educational experience. Read Lauren's reflective blog on joyful learning.

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4 August 2023

Reimagining Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) with Disabled Young People (DYP)

‘Reimagining TAS with DYP has been an interdisciplinary and collaborative project using methods of co-production and makerspaces (collaborative workspaces for making, learning, exploring and sharing) to explore TAS.

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6 July 2023

"Don't let the fear of reading control you" New podcast about student experiences of academic reading in Higher Education.

Academic reading is key skill in Higher Education (HE) & a fundamental part of most degree programmes - Despite this little is known about how students experience reading & what educators can do to support students with the reading they assign.

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27 June 2023

Teaching Reproducible Research and Open Science Conference

In June we hosted Project TIER as part of the UKRN’s Open Research Training Programme. TIER’s Norm Medeiros & Richard Ball led 3 days of activities around incorporating reproducible methods in teaching reproducible research.

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