NTFS Projects Funded in 2008

The following projects were awarded National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) funding in 2008:

The following projects were awarded National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) funding in 2008:

Summary of each of the projects (updated 20.01.2009) (DOC, 138KB)) 

Focus 3 out-duction: Improving the Student Experience 

This project will improve our understanding of the experience of students in their final year of undergraduate study. It will address the issues of student autonomy in study and also the preparation of students to engage with conceptual life planning.

Led by Kingston University

First-year Assessment: Aligning perceptions and practice with purpose 

This project aims to improve assessment for first-year students at Leeds Metropolitan University and its partner FE colleges, and to produce customisable resources to help other HE institutions to do the same.

Led by Leeds Metropolitan University

Flying Start: Practices, communities and policies to ease the transition to university writing and assessment 

This widening participation project takes a cross-sector approach to bridge the 'separate worlds' of writing and assessment at pre-university and undergraduate level and ease the transition between the two.

Led by Liverpool Hope University

Developing learning and assessment opportunities for a complex world 

This project seeks to identify aspects of dissonance and congruence in perceptions, understandings and expectations of staff, students and employers in relation to preparing students for employability in the 21st Century.

Led by Liverpool John Moores University

Enhancing Clinical Learning in the Workplace (ECLW) 

Learning in the work-place is a fundamental component of vocational undergraduate courses. This project is primarily set in the veterinary workplace, but deals with concepts applicable across the education of vocational professionals.

Led by Royal Veterinary College

Creating Academic Learning Futures (CALF) 

CALF will explore trends, emerging issues and alternative futures in HE, with and for learning.

Led by University College Falmouth

To see ourselves as others see us: sharing and representing disciplinary classroom practice 

This project will undertake an intense examination of disciplinary teaching practice and its relationship to student achievement.

Led by the University of Kent

 
The strategic implications of different forms of international collaboration: creating an interactive online toolkit to analyse the impact of collaboration on institutional stakeholders 

This project will carry out an extensive review of existing practices and compile case-studies presenting the dilemmas and decisions of different forms of collaboration.

Led by the University of Northampton

Creative Interventions: Valuing and assessing creativity in student work-related learning in the public and not-for-profit sectors 

This project will investigate the value of a creative education in developing entrepreneurial skills, test the assumption that creativity can be transferred to the workplace, and identify the best ways to blend curricular-based learning and work related learning in the voluntary and not for profit sectors.

Led by the University of the Arts London

Employability and disability 

This project provides a sector wide initiative that will lead to enhanced graduate employability by equipping disabled students with skills to match employability competencies, and will help tackle discrimination in the workplace for disabled students on placement and for disabled graduates entering the workforce.

Led by the University of Worcester