Collaborate with us

Collaborate with us to develop your students' academic language and literacies as a part of your module or programme.

Our provision is designed in collaboration with you to tailor it to the discipline, embed it in your programme and map it to the students' timeline of assignments and assessments.

Provision is available to all students in your cohort and can focus on, for example, developing genre awareness, understanding academic conventions within their discipline and lingustic expertise.

How it works

We work with you to develop the provision.

Preparation

We first discuss the language and literacy challenges for students on your programme, how a collaboration with us could best complement existing support, and create a possible outline of the collaboration.

To contextualise the provision, we ask for assignment guidelines, marking criteria, samples of student work, access to relevant Moodle pages, and a schedule of assignment and submission dates.

We discuss timetabling. The intervention can take place at any time of the academic year, depending on when is most relevant for your cohort. It can be scheduled within the students' existing timetable or scheduled separately.

We create and review materials for the collaboration.

The collaboration

We teach the intervention, which can be co-taught, taught by us or taught by you. See below for examples of content, format and case studies to inspire.

Evaluation

Following the collaboration, we review feedback together.

Examples of content

These are examples of areas of academic language and literacies that we might focus on.

Many interventions will combine different elements of the below.

• Academic conventions: helping students understand what is expected in an assignment (e.g., structure, argumentation, criticality and referencing) and how we might evidence these in practice.
• Assessment literacies: helping students understand and repsond to assignment guidelines, marking criteria and feedback.
• Academic skills: helping students develop effective skills in areas such as reading and note-taking.
• Academic language: helping students understand how to use language effectively to communicate their ideas and research.
• Academic integrity: helping students understand the principles of academic integrity and how to integrate source material appropriately.

Examples of format

Provision can be online or on campus. These are examples of possible formats.

• Workshops focused on a specific assignment, assessment or skill.
• Tailored courses embedded across a year or years of a programme.
• Tailored asynchronous material followed by workshops or tutorials.
• Pedagogic support and mentoring for PGTAs leading sessions.

Case studies

Coming soon.

Contact us

Please contact us for an initial discussion at least a term ahead of when you would like the provision to begin.

Ayanna Prevatt-Goldstein
ayanna.prevatt-goldstein@ucl.ac.uk

Daphne Thomas
daphne.thomas@ucl.ac.uk