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International Teaching Excellence Bursaries

The UCL International Teaching Excellence Bursaries form part of a drive to expand UCL’s profile as an internationally recognised centre of teaching excellence. A key aspect of achieving this aim is increasing international teaching and learning exchanges that advance collaborative innovations and deepen strategic links with overseas partners in a range of regions around the world. These links will support the collaborative development of innovative teaching and learning resources that can be shared across the wider UCL community.

To date, ten UCL staff have received a bursary to visit overseas institutions. Four academics from overseas institutions have been awarded bursaries to visit UCL.

The next round is due to take place later this year, so watch this space.

If you have questions about the bursaries please contact Ciarán Moynihan in the Office for International Affairs at ciaran.moynihan@ucl.ac.uk. 

Find out more about the bursary recipients below.

Successful applicants - round one

Outgoing recipients:

  • Dr Hervé Borrion, UCL Crime Science, visited the Center for Public Safety Research, Tsinghua University, China

The bursary was awarded to launch an International Security Science Seminar Series

  • Dr Jenny Bunn, UCL Information Studies, visited Simmons College, Boston, USA

The bursary was awarded to advance design of a model for collaborative international archival education

  • Dr Graeme Hogarth, UCL Chemistry, visited Lund University Chemical Centre, Sweden

The bursary was awarded to enhance and develop the curriculum of a UCL module and to test the general applicability of the Critical evaluation of a research topic approach

  • Matt Jenner, UCL Information Services Division, visited Yale University’s Collaborative Learning Centre, New Haven, USA

The bursary was awarded to investigate how a ‘traditional’ US Ivy League university has developed Master’s-level distance learning both strategically and operationally in order to inform and benchmark UCL’s activities

  • Josh Lange, seconded to Nazarbayev University from the UCL Centre for Languages and International Education, visited Columbia University, New York, USA

The bursary was awarded to focus on developing IT solutions regarding specific developmental issues (sanitation for the world’s poor)

  • Dr Arad Resiberg, UCL Laws, visited Brooklyn Law School, New York, USA

The bursary was awarded to develop the Faculty of laws’ teaching methods by experimenting in innovative assessments and running two weeks of workshops/clinics geared towards exploring new techniques and technologies to enhance student engagement and provide more support and feedback on performance

  • Dr Rodney Reynolds, UCL Anthropology and Global Health, visited Roma Tre Universita, Dipartimento di Progettazione Educativa e Didattica, Italy

The bursary was awarded to develop curriculum design specifics to be used in a blended course (Death, Dying and Consequences) in global health/anthropology being taught at UCL in 2012/13

  • Dr Sushrut Jadhav, UCL Mental Health Sciences Unit, visited Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India

The bursary was awarded to address curriculum development and delivery of a UCL-lead, unique and intensive six week customised teaching module on a planned Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) and Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health (BALM) International Master’s and PhD programme.

Successful applicants - round two

Outgoing recipients:

  • Simon Banks, UCL Chemistry, visited Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France

The bursary was awarded for interdisciplinary and research-led teaching.

  • Vincent Gimbert, UCL Centre for Languages and International Education, visited Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux and Université Bordeaux in France

The bursary was awarded for physics curriculum development and introduction to research and teaching interfaces.

Incoming recipients:

  • Shubhada Maitra, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in India, is visiting the UCL Mental Health Sciences Unit

The bursary was awarded for consolidation of the ongoing UCL-TISS academic relationship through development of curriculum and innovative teaching and learning practices that address the multicultural complexity of a university like TISS. Find out more about Shubada's work at UCL.

  • Gonzalo Andres Ramirez Cleves, Universidad Externado de Colombia, is visiting the UCL Faculty of Laws

The bursary was awarded to review the use of the internet in teaching of the influence of Bentham’s legal thought in Colombia during the nineteenth century. Find out more about Gonzalo's work at UCL.

  • Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador, is visiting the UCL team responsible for the BASc and E-learning Environments

The bursary was awarded to motivate the use of technology to free up time for deeper thinking activities or higher order cognitive reflection during classes with a specific focus on classroom flipping. Find out more about Tracey’s upcoming workshop at UCL.

  • Carlos Mario Zapata-Jaramillo, Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Medellin, is visiting the UCL Department of Computer Science

The bursary was awarded for the sharing of expertise in creating experience-based games in the classroom for use in active learning strategies.

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