1. Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures
  2. School of Design
  3. Research and innovation
  4. Scholarship Research

Scholarship Research

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The scholarship research group aims to develop and conduct scholarship research to enhance teaching and learning, and generate innovative pedagogical resources. It supports teaching and scholarship and interested staff to devise, develop and deliver evidence-based education practice and scholarship within their related fields.

The group acts as a platform for engagement with other scholarship interest groups such as the Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence (LITE), and the Pedagogic Research in the Arts, research centre (PRiA) to facilitate the sharing of good practice, and funding and other resources to contribute towards impact activity.

The breadth of teaching approaches and expertise in the School of Design is reflected in this group’s engagement with emerging matters of concern within the expanded field of design pedagogy research and scholarship. Group members investigate and reflect on a range of issues emerging out of developments in studio teaching, the challenges of responding to technological change, the ethics and politics of teaching and learning, and curriculum transformation.

Impact

The University of Leeds is currently undertaking a ten-year curriculum transformation project that will develop imaginative, and sustainable approaches to education, and enhance students’ abilities to acquire knowledge and skills they require to make a positive impact in the world. The scholarship research group plays a key role in the School’s contribution to the redefining of the curriculum at the University of Leeds.

Projects

  • Helen Clark has been awarded a Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence fellowship with Paul Wilson to explore a student-co-constructed Code of Practice for Inclusive Learning and Teaching.

  • Kimberley Sheen and Yuchan Zhang have received Pedagogic Research in the Arts (PRiA) seedcorn funding for a project exploring Gamification in enhancing students' academic referencing skills.

  • Nerantzi, C., Hammersley, J., McDonald, D., Briggs, S., Brew, M., Lickiss, M., Gilmore, J., M., Martinez Arboleda, A., Gooch, L., Reader, C., & Binks Iturriagagoitia, M. (2023). The e(ducation)-pizza game (2023 1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8009638 

Members

  • John Hammersley

  • Arjun Khara

  • Ben Bradley

  • Claire Watson

  • Elaine Evans

  • Helen Clarke

  • Jeffrey Thorpe

  • Joanna Blanco-Velo

  • Joseph Gilmore

  • Judith Simpson

  • Kimberly Sheen

  • Vanessa Walker

  • Matthew Lickiss

  • Jeanne-Louise Moyes

  • Caroline Campbell

  • Clare Maxwell

  • Yuri Siregar