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Professional Development Event

Pedagogic Research in the Biosciences

Tuesday, 24 March 2009

Woodhouse Room, Charles Wilson Building, University of Leicester

The day explored different methodologies and provided the opportuntity to meet like-minded colleagues and promote pedagogy in the biosciences. This event was targeted at bioscientists with some experience of pedagogic evaluation and research.

 

Programme
10.00 Registration and refreshments
10.20 Welcome and Introduction to the day
Steve Maw, Centre for Bioscience
10.30 Social Science Research Methodologies
Bonnie Green, University of Leicester
11.15 Practitioner Perspectives: four scientists give the benefit of their experience in moving into education research with a "warts 'n' all" deconstruction of a piece of their own work.

Teaching about bioethics through authoring of websites
Chris Willmott, University of Leicester

Opportunistic Action Research into Peer and Self Assessment
Mark Langan and Rod Cullen, Manchester Metropolitan University

A farewell to controls? The problems with experiments in education
Mark Huxham, Napier University

View the morning's presentations (as streamed media)

12.30 Lunch
13.30 Discussion Session
Facilitated by Paul Orsmond  

In small groups attendees had the opportunity to discussions:

  • What pedagogic research you have done?
  • What did you find
  • Any challenges/stumbling blocks you came across and the ways you got round them
  • Did you write up the work? If so, where?

Summary of discussion

This was followed by parallel sessions:
15.30 Feedback
Facilitated by Paul Orsmond
16.00 Reflections and Close
 
Summary of the Presentations (pdf)
Resources from the Day

Resource List for Pedagogic Research in the Biosciences

The SCOTs project (Students Consulting on Teaching)

 

View reports from related events

Centre for Bioscience Event Report: Pedagogic Research in the Bioscience - Southampton, 2009
24/03/2009
http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/events/leicester240309.aspx

Centre for Bioscience Event Report: Getting Started in Educational Research in the Sciences - Salford 2007
11/10/2007
http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/events/pedr111007.aspx

Centre for Bioscience Event Report: Getting Started in Educational Research in the Sciences - Oxford Brookes 2007
01/05/2007
http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/events/oxfordbrookes.aspx