Teaching and Learning Fund 2020: Awards Announced
The Exchange is pleased to announce the awardees for the 2020 round of the Teaching and Learning Fund. This year, we have awarded over £50,000 in funding for 21 projects. We received a wide range of projects from combining art and neuroscience to introducing techniques for resilience. The wide variety of proposals made it incredibly challenging to select those awarded.
As the Exchange further developed our remit during 2019, we were able to introduce new award strands and invest more in teaching and learning excellence across the Colleges:
- Attainment (new)
- Curious, creative curricula
- Digital Learning
- Employability and Enterprise
- Environmental Sustainability (new)
The Application Process
The administration of the Fund was further development by the Digital Learning, Arts Education and Web Services teams who worked to improve the user experience by moving from a paper to an online multimedia application using Microsoft Sharepoint Lists.
We hosted in-person and online proposal support workshops where potential applicants met with Exchange staff to share their ideas, ask questions and receive advice on how to form a proposal.
We introduced a period of revision for projects that showed strong potential but that needed a little more refining or consideration. This allowed the applicants to discuss their proposals with Exchange staff and receive advice on how to structure them to further enhance student learning and experience.
For awardees, we hosted two Ethics workshops where we examined British Educational Research Association’s (BERA) ‘Ethical Guidelines for Education Research’ and the responsibilities to various participants when conducting research of any form at UAL.
The funded projects
We are pleased to share the full list of projects we are funding this year. If you are interested in learning more about a project, leave a comment below or email us and we will put you in touch with the project lead.
| Project Leader | Project Title | College Department | Category |
| Alexander Cooper and Tim Hutchinson | GMD Type / Lab | LCC | Curious, creative curricula |
| Anne Eggebert | What is a degree show? | CSM | Attainment; Curious, creative curricula |
| Annette Robinson | Drawing out and drawing together. | CCW: Camberwell | Employability and Enterprise |
| Bernd Behr | The squares of the city: Critical interventions in urban data through visual and spatial practices. | CCW: Camberwell | Digital Learning |
| Cally Blackman | GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES 1920 | CSM | Attainment |
| Colin Priest | WE ARE HERE: PERSONAL GEOGRAPHIES OF CAMBERWELL AND OTHER SPACES OF THE IMAGINATION | CCW: Chelsea | Curious, creative curricula |
| Heather Barnett | Graduates in the Making | CSM | Employability and Enterprise |
| Helen Paine | Career Exchange Pilot | CCW: Chelsea | Employability and Enterprise |
| Jhinuk Sarkar | Illustrators of colour – voices in inclusion and mental health | LCC | Curious, creative curricula |
| Jonathan Kearney | Shared Language (art and neuroscience) | CCW: Camberwell | Digital Learning |
| Jordan Mckenzie | Resilience: How To Keep Going Through Tough Times | CCW: Wimbledon | Curious, creative curricula; Employability and Enterprise |
| Lynda Smith | The Elephant in the Classroom: Disrupting the narrative of student life in the 21st Century. (see attached document for further details) | LCC | Digital Learning |
| Mark Ingham and Emily Salines | Lost and Found in Translation – An Interactive Workbook | LCC | Attainment; Curious, creative curricula |
| Michael Spencer | Generations | CSM | Curious, creative curricula |
| Mo Throp | Exhibition & seminar for PhD and MA students | CCW: Chelsea | Curious, creative curricula |
| Peter Maloney | Exploring emotional pedagogies through virtual reality for transformative learning | CCW: Chelsea | Digital Learning |
| Richenda Gwilt | Environmental sustainability and materials | Library Services | Curious, creative curricula; Environmental Sustainability |
| Samantha Elliott | Addressing attainment by developing a Intercultural studio culture | CCW: Chelsea | Attainment |
| Shibboleth Shechter | PLAYGROUND | CCW: Chelsea | Curious, creative curricula; Environmental Sustainability |
| Silvia Grimaldi | Communicating the Value of Project-based pedagogy (to students and staff) | LCC | Knowledge Exchange |
| Vivienne Francis | coLAB Teaching Project | LCC | Attainment; Curious, creative curricula |
Stay in Touch
We will post periodic updates on some of the Teaching and Learning Fund projects here on this blog. You can also keep an eye on the Exchange monthly bulletin (sign up now!) and our Twitter feed for updates on projects and events you can attend to support them.