The Centre for Child Protection (CCP) offers new and innovative ways of bringing child protection training to academics, students, safeguarding professionals from health, social care and education and directly to young people.

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Science at University of Leicester comprises a strongly collaborative teaching team delivering the University’s innovative Natural Sciences undergraduate programme.

This project sought to design an innovative way of delivering therapy training: working collaboratively with students and community partners to combine teaching and learning with evidence-based practice working.

Judith led the work, Liz A and Davron managed the clinical aspect, and Sheila coordinated the research element assisted by Hayley. Blanka and Liz C worked with students and community stakeholders to design new specialist spaces.

The core team is comprised of Chantelle, Cheryl and Dylan who work as lecturers within the Early Childhood Studies and Primary Education Studies programmes. The wider multidisciplinary team encompasses a number of areas from across the university including Estates, Campus Services, students, academic and administrative staff.

Together academics Sonya Sharma (Sociology), Helen Julia Minors (Music), Sylvia Collins-Mayo (Sociology), Heidi Seetzen (Sociology), Elena Catalano (Dance), Colette Balmain (Media and TV) and Jackie Smart (Drama) have carried out the project Taking Race Live (TRL) with Student Partners at Level 5 and 6 at Kingston University.

Dr John Wheeler, Associate Dean in the School of Law, Policing and Forensics, leads the team and has cross-University responsibility for overseeing developments with police forces. Many members of University staff have been closely involved in implementing experiential learning collaborations that have provided great opportunities for our students and have supported the core team.

The IWISE (Institutional-wide approach to Improving Student Engagement) team is a cross-institutional team of 12 members, comprised of senior staff, students’ union, professional services, and academics from seven disciplines areas. Aligned to the University’s vision to transform lives, stretch minds, develop skills and raise ambitions, one of the key institutional priorities is to improve student retention and success (SRS).

The University of Bedfordshire team comprises of the core members of the Sustainability Forum (SF) which they formed in 2013.  It includes Tamara Ashley, Helen Connolly, David Jazani, Diana Pritchard and Nicholas Worsfold.  They teach in a spectrum of disciplines (Dance, Sociology, Construction and Life Sciences), while Diana is based within the Centre of Learning Excellence.

The Integrated Engineering Programme (IEP) Team comprises a collective of four individuals with unique but complementary skill-sets, sharing a passion for collaborative, interdisciplinary, team-teaching to produce a new generation of engineering graduates.