Podcast – PhD wellbeing: Isolation, cost of living and Covid (Episode 3) In the second part of this two-part podcast, which is a continuation of last week’s episode on PhD students’ wellbeing, Sibyl Adam, student wellbeing adviser at the Student wellbeing service and Lorna street, a lecturer at the School of Geosciences discuss some of the practical difficulties in PhD life, such as isolation, cost of living […]
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Spotlight on the 2024 Teaching Award winners: Teachers of the year and Outstanding course of the year In this blog Callum Paterson, Academic Engagement & Policy Coordinator at the Students’ Association, turns the spotlight to the winners of this year’s Outstanding Courses and Teachers of the Year in the Students’ Association’s 2024 Teaching Awards. This post belongs to the Hot Topic: EUSA Teaching Awards 2024↗️. teacher of the year Our three Teacher of […]
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Student perspectives of the value in assessment In this post, Dr Jess Gurney, a Lecturer on the MSc Clinical Education. shares her findings from a project that investigates student perspectives of the value in assessment. This post is part of the Mar-May Learning & Teaching Enhancement theme: Assessment and feedback revisited↗️. I have been leading a project investigating student perspectives of the […]
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Podcast – PhD wellbeing: The relationship between student and staff wellbeing (Episode 2) In the first part of this two-part podcast, Sibyl and Lorna discuss the intersection of being a PhD student and wellbeing. They cover themes of cultures of overwork and acceptance of stress, relationship of student/staff wellbeing and individual vs structural responsibility. This episode belongs to Podcast series: Student Wellbeing↗️. Lorna begins with a story about […]
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Spotlight on the 2024 Teaching Award winners: Staff offering exceptional levels of support to students In this blog Callum Paterson, Academic Engagement & Policy Coordinator at the Students’ Association, turns the spotlight to the winners of the Students’ Association’s 2024 Teaching Awards for staff offering exceptional levels of support to students. EUSA Teaching Awards 2024↗️ It goes without saying that staff across each of our award categories offer a huge […]
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