Research-informed teaching
- Research-informed teaching
= Research-informed Teaching =
"Research-informed Teaching" refers to the practice of linking research with teaching in Higher Education. Most universities in the world are organised into teaching and research divisions. Professors and lecturers will normally be contracted to do both and, in theory at least, course syllabi are structured around the teacher's research interests. Since the 1980s, there has been a growing movement to further integrate the two activities. This has led to a new interest in undergraduate research, where students enrolled on bachelor degrees are given the opportunity to participate in research projects or undertake their own research. This practice was pioneered in America, where there is now a nationwide Council for Undergraduate Research, and in Australia. Recently, the UK Government funded several 'centres of excellence' which focus in different ways on undergraduate research. One of the most important is the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research, which was set up in the Sociology department at Warwick Univerisity in partnership with the School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brookes University under the directorship of Mike Neary. The Centre's journal, Reinvention, launched in September 2007. In 2006, the UK Government also invested c.£25m into universities across the country to strengthen research-informed teaching. Key publications by Alan Jenkins, Roger Zetter, Mick Healey and Angela Brew have further developed the research base for research-informed teaching. In April 2007 the University of Central Lancashire appointed the first ever Chair in Research-informed Teaching, Stuart Hampton-Reeves, and in September 2007 launched a Centre for Research-informed Teaching.
External links
* [http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/research/LinkingTeachingAndResearch_April07.pdf Linking Teaching and Research]
* [http://www.cur.org/ Council for Undergraduate Research]
* [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/research/cetl/ Warwick Reinvention Centre]
* [http://www.uclan.ac.uk/host/nexus/ UCLAN Centre for Research-informed Teaching]
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