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Book Review: Engaging Students as Partners In Learning and Teaching

Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching: A Guide for Faculty, By Alison Cook-Sather, Catherine Bovill, Peter Felten. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2014. Reviewed by: Tom Davidson, BSc Web Science (Computer Science)  The rather weighty tome Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching arrived on my desk almost 3 weeks ago now. It was clear to me from the beginning of this book that it is not a book written to entertain. Continue reading →

Our Trip to Cadbury World!

Is there a better way to end a stressful term than lots of chocolate?! (Actually don't answer that, who knows what some of you might get up to...) Anyway, chocolate was exactly how the Business Co-Creation group decided to celebrate; make sure you read below the summary of that trip from Calvin. ****** The 20th of May commemorated the end of the first year of Business School undergraduates through an educational visit to Cadbury World in the historic village of Bourneville. Continue reading →

Reflection on Recent Conferences – Dr Mark Gatenby

Hi all! As we approach the end of what has been a massively busy term, we will be uploading a couple of reflective pieces about what we've been up to as a group. This is the first of them, written by the Programme Leader of BSc Business Management at the Business School, Dr Mark Gatenby. Hope you enjoy reading and learning more about our trips to various conferences! ****** It’s been a busy couple of months for the project and co-design group. Continue reading →

The European Question: Southampton Decides

As referendum fever holds the nation in anticipation for June 23rd, PublicPolicy@Southampton held, what can only be described, as a very informed and heated debate about the European question. With a packed audience of students, academics and local residents in The Cube, Dr. Alan Whitehead MP, Labour MP for Southampton Test and James Edwards, representing Students for Europe shared the ‘Remain’ platform. Continue reading →

SUSU Vs. Us – The Rebranding

I had planned to give myself a week off from writing to focus on exams, knuckle down, that kind of thing. Unfortunately, it was not to be. This is due to one of the most controversial, and in some cases horrifying, story to grip our grand University this academic year. For those of you who have have your head buried in the sand (or perhaps just don't follow Wessex Scene or Soton Tab on twitter), I am talking of course about the SUSU rebrand. Continue reading →

ALDinHE Conference – Edinburgh

On the 22nd March 2016, Dr Mark Gatenby, Dr Stefanos Marangos and I (Samuel Phelps) visited the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (or ALDinHE) at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. Learning development is a highly discussed term within academia that encompasses the idea that students and staff at higher educational institutions should work together in the development of academic practices such as curriculum or research. Continue reading →

Unitu Feedback Software Report

Hi All! Attached is a report from a recent meeting reviewing the potential to bring a different type of feedback software - Unitu - into Southampton! You'll see some student comments in the report, but if anyone has anything to add after reading this please don't hesitate to get in touch via the comments below! Thanks! In addition to this, we have recently been made aware that iSolutions are doing a software sweep of all faculties in the University. Continue reading →