Dissemination

30/05/08 Plant Sciences Research Briefing
The Plant Sciences Pedagogy Project was one of three projects forming the Teaching for Learning Network. This Research Briefing provides an accessible and comprehensive summary of the research and development work undertaken over two years. It includes discussion of the key findings and implications that arose from this work and that provide a framework for conducting evidence-based research with staff and students.
06/02/08 Evidence-Informed Development of Engineering Practical Work: effecting change through staff and student engagement
This is the abstract of the paper submitted to the HEA Engineering Education 2008 conference. The full paper will be available after the conference, which is being held in Loughborough in July 2008.
19/12/07 SRHE Roundtable 4: Archimedes’ Point: An Educational Research Body As Interface Of Engagement
The fourth and final paper presented during the TfLN Roundtable session at the recent SRHE Annual Conference 2007. This is the first time that the research and reflection process within the Faculty of Classics has been presented to an external audience.
19/12/07 SRHE Roundtable 3: Supporting Staff and Students in Improving Practical Experiences in an Engineering Department
The third of the four papers making up the TfLN roundtable session at SRHE 2007. This is the first time that data from the Engineering research and development project has been presented to an external audience.
19/12/07 SRHE Roundtable 2: Reshaping Academic Practice and Relationships within the Department of Plant Sciences
The second paper presented at the TfLN Roundtable session at SRHE 2007, detailing the research and development work undertaken within the Plant Sciences Department.
19/12/07 SRHE Roundtable 1: The Teaching for Learning Network: A Research and Development Initiative in Higher Education
The Introductory paper for the recent TfLN Roundtable session at the Society for Research in Higher Education Annual Conference 2007.
19/12/07 Plant Sciences 'Departmental Feedback' seminar
The TfLN Plant Sciences team ran a workshop in November to give their Department a summary of the work that had been carried out over the last year, and the continuing development of resources for both staff and students
07/11/07 Poster: Transforming Perspectives - project overview
This poster gives an overview of a project to explore the potential of technology to assist learning of "threshold concepts". Participant researchers in the TfLN were also engaged as participants in this project.
07/11/07 Poster: Video Observation
This is another poster describing research approaches used by the TfLN; this poster describes the videoing of supervisions in the Departments of Engineering and Plant Sciences, and the analysis carried out on the videos.
07/11/07 Poster: Technology Enhanced Research
This poster is one of two offering examples of technologies used within the TfLN; here we offer examples of technologies used gather data and collaborate on analysis, dissemination and communication
07/11/07 Poster: Technology Enhanced Learning
This poster is one of two offering examples of technologies used within the TfLN; here we offer examples of technologies used to enhance learning
07/11/07 Poster: P-V Gap Questionnaire
This poster is one of a suite illustrating some of the research approaches used by the TfLN. The P-V Gap Questionnaire has been used by each participating department as a tool for analysing current practices; the example here comes from work in the Plant Sciences Department.
07/11/07 Poster: Engagement of teachers in educational research
This poster form part of a suite illuminating the research approaches of the TfLN. Engagement of teaching staff (and students) as participatory researchers within the learning context under study is a key theme of the group's work.
07/11/07 Poster: Confident Readership in Second Language Acquisition
Download the poster setting out the research agenda in the Faculty of Classics to discover how confident readership can be promoted amongst students.
07/11/07 Poster: Developing Integrated IB Coursework at the Department of Engineering
Download this poster setting out the research carried out by the Department of Engineering as a participant of the TfLN.
30/10/07 Poster: Plant Sciences Pedagogy Project
Download this poster summarising the work carried out by the Plant Sciences Department in collaboration with TfLN.
30/10/07 Poster: TfLN as a Participatory Research Community
Download a copy of this explanatory poster, designed for our celebratory event on October 23rd.
29/10/07 Poster: What is the TfLN?
Download a copy of the Introductory poster from our celebratory event on the 23rd October
06/09/07 BERA 2007: Poster: Using liminality to your advantage
Poster accepted for BERA 2007.
Full title: Using liminality to your advantage: our role as mediator between educational researchers and other domain-specific academics in higher education
Authors: Frances Tracy and Katy Jordan (Plant Sciences Department/TfLN)
06/09/07 BERA 2007: The Teaching for Learning Network: A Research and Development Initiative in Higher Education
The Teaching for Learning Network paper accepted for BERA 2007. Authors: Dr. Patrick Carmichael, Dr. Naomi Irvine and Dr. Frances Tracy
31/08/07 TfLN Flyer: Dissemination at BERA 2007
This flyer introduces the Teaching for Learning Network and gives a round-up of this year's papers and articles (so far), with a special emphasis on what we will present at BERA 2007.
30/08/07 Sakai Conference 2007: the Plant Sciences team presentation
The Plant Sciences team gave a presentation at the Sakai Conference in Amsterdam, in June 2007, discussing data gathered about student interaction with the Plant Sciences virtual learning environment (VLE).
28/08/07 EARLI 2007: Developing a Research Community in Higher Education: from Student Feedback to Knowledge Construction
The Teaching for Learning Network paper accepted for EARLI 2007. Authors: Dr. Patrick Carmichael, Dr. Naomi Irvine and Dr. Frances Tracy
24/07/07 Introduction to TfLN and overarching themes
This short abstract outlines the principles and commitments of the network's participants, and how these have enabled three very different contexts to be investigated in a coherent way.

This paper is followed by three other short pieces illuminating the development of the network through three additional HE contexts, starting with the department of Plant Sciences, where the initial work of the network took place, following this up with the Department of Engineering and the Faculty of Classics, where research and development is at an earlier stage.
24/07/07 TfLN within the Department of Engineering
'Supporting staff and students in improving practical experiences in an engineering department'.
24/07/07 TfLN in the Department of Plant Sciences
'Reshaping Academic Practice And Relationships Within The Department Of Plant Sciences'.
24/07/07 TfLN at the Faculty of Classics
'Archimedes’ Point: An Educational Research Body As Interface Of Engagement'.
05/06/07 Solstice e-learning conference 2007
The Plant Science project team presented a paper at this conference on 'Using the wiki the wrong way'.
23/04/07 Research Bulletin No. 3 (March - April 2007)
The Bulletin is produced once a month to share news of the research undertaken by the TfLN with a wider audience. A draft is presented at the group's monthly meeting, and a final version of the Bulletin containing the up-to-date news is produced after that meeting.
02/04/07 Blended Learning Conference 2007: Plant Sciences presentation
The Plant Sciences team presented a paper at the Blended Learning 2006 conference on 'Using an evidence informed approach to create online learning resources'.
21/03/07 Research Bulletin No. 2
Research Bulletin No. 2 (February 2007).
15/03/07 EARLI: Developing a Research Community in Higher Education as 'Co-Configuration' (abstract)
This paper describes a series of research and development projects into teaching and learning practices in Higher Education which have been undertaken at the University of Cambridge under the auspices of the Pedagogy Programme of the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI).
15/03/07 The Teaching for Learning Network: a Research and Development Initiative in Higher Education (abstract)
Abstract of the paper accepted for BERA 2007 annual conference.
15/03/07 BERA: Initiating and Supporting Practitioner Research in Higher Education (abstract)
Abstract of the paper accepted for BERA 2007 annual conference.
21/02/07 Research Bulletin No. 1
Research Bulletin No. 1 (December 2006 - January 2007).
09/02/07 BERA 2006 paper
A presentation and paper summarising of the work of the Plant Sciences Pedagogy Project were presented at the Annual Conference of the British Education Research Association in September 2006.
09/02/07 TfLN Introductory flyer
Download our Introductory flyer here.
30/11/06 ISSoTL 2006 presentation
The Directors of TfLN were invited to present at the 2006 Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, November 9-12, Washington, D.C.