Friday 11 December 2015

Seeds for Solutions, How does the past inform the future? Innovation projects from 2012/13 #KATS2015

Project Title: Study Write - An Interactive Resource for Improving Academic Scholarship
Project Leader(s): Dan Harding, Scott McGowan, Emma Surman, Teresa Oultram and Alhajie Saidy-Khan


Study Write is a series of six online videos and interactive quizzes designed to improve students understanding of academic scholarship. It will:
  • raise awareness of how the various aspects featured on the video underpin academic development,
  • explain to students the importance of sound academic practice,
  • provide examples of good practice and encourage the development of a range or related skills in writing and research
  • provide an authoritative resource for students (and staff) at a distance, especially those on the KMS international programmes, and,
  • enable students who are coming to the UK to study from overseas to familiarise themselves with scholarship issues at their own pace and prior to arriving at Keele.
It will enable students to:
  • know the territory of academic scholarship,
  • identify the different types of information source found there,
  • read the “map” to find the best route from “reading and assessing” sources to “writing and referencing” (from Study to Write),
  • equip themselves with the tools to enable them to plan and complete their journey (e.g. searching, reading, note taking, assessing and referencing skills), and, avoid some of the hazards and pitfalls along the way.
Study Write - Final Project Report

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Study Write - An Interactive Resource for Improving Academic Scholarship by Dan Harding, Scott McGowan, Emma Surman, Teresa Oultram and Alhajie Saidy-Khan, Keele University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.



Project Title: Chemistry Laboratory Engagement and Assessment of Risk and Safety (CLEARS)
Project Leader(s): Katherine Haxton and Laura Hancock


The development of laboratory safety skills and good laboratory citizenship are key subject specific graduate attributes for a Chemistry degree programme. This project will design, implement and evaluate several innovative safety activities including risk awareness activities, safety focussed pre-laboratory exercises designed to test understanding as well as awareness of common safety procedures, student-led safety teams in laboratories and an ‘attitude to risk’ questionnaire to evaluate the change in attitude of students from the start of their degree through to their final year project.

CLEARS - Final Project Report

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Chemistry Laboratory Engagement and Assessment of Risk and Safety (CLEARS) by Katherine Haxton and Laura Hancock, Keele University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.