New book features staff and student’s perspectives on research-based education

The book, framed by UCL’s Connected Curriculum, a conceptual framework for integrating research-based education into all taught programmes of study, branches out to show how aspects of the framework can apply to practice across a variety of institutions in a range of national settings.

Comprised of a collection of essays written and co-authored by staff and students, it features student perspective and offers academics and university leaders practical suggestions and inspiring ideas on higher education pedagogy, edited by Dr Vincent Tong, Dr Alex Standen and Dr Mina Sotiriou.  

It includes:

• principles of working with students as partners in higher education,
• connecting students with real-world outputs
• transcending disciplinary boundaries in student research activities
• connecting students with the workplace
• innovative assessment and teaching practices.

This book poses fundamental questions about learning and learning communities in contemporary higher education.

The new publication is the third in a series of books published by UCL Arena Centre, following Prof Dilly Fung’s A Connected Curriculum for Higher Education (2017) and Dr Brent Carnell’s Developing the Higher Education Curriculum (2017), which have collectively been downloaded over 12,500 in over 130 countries. 

The international interest in these outputs from the UCL Arena Centre confirms UCL’s position as a leader in research-based education.

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