Transcript QAA Research Teaching Linkages: Enhancing Graduate Attributes Theme Linda Juleff, QAA Steering Group Representative.

QAA Research Teaching
Linkages: Enhancing Graduate
Attributes Theme
Linda Juleff, QAA Steering Group
Representative
Scope of the theme
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To examine, and to enhance, the
extent to which subject based
research is being used to support the
curriculum at undergraduate and
postgraduate level.
To identify how discipline research
can be used to help students to
develop “graduate attributes”.
Definition of research
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Practice or consultancy led research
Research of local economic significance
Contributions to the work of associated
research institutes, or other universities
Scholarship
Applied research including performances,
creative works, and industrial and
professional secondments
Boyer’s four scholarships of; discovery,
integration, application and teaching.
Examples of “Graduate Attributes” Undergraduate
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The ability to identify and
analyse problems and issues
The ability to formulate,
evaluate and apply evidence
based solutions and arguments
An ability to apply a systematic
and critical assessment of
complex problems and issues
Examples of “Graduate Attributes”Taught Postgraduate
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Conceptual understanding that
enables critical evaluation of
current research and advanced
scholarship
Originality in the application of
knowledge
The ability to deal with complex
issues and make sound
judgments in the absence of
complete data.
Discipline Strand
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Engineering and Built Environment
Information and Mathematical
Sciences
Creative and Cultural Practice
Arts and Social Sciences
Health and Social Care
Life Sciences
Business and Management
Medicine, dentistry and veterinary
medicine
Physical sciences
Discipline Strand: Purpose and
Method
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To identify, share and build on good
and innovative practice in utilising
research-teaching linkages to
enhance the achievement of graduate
attributes.
Discipline project directors have been
appointed to collect information:
from Faculty Executive teams
from academic staff
via questionnaire and/or interview
Exercise 1
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What are the most important
attributes that economics
graduates should have?
How can economics research be
included in the curriculum to
develop these attributes?
Institutional Strand
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Focuses on:
institutional management and
policies and how these impact
on research teaching linkages.
how institutions can (and do)
organise their activities in
learning and teaching and in
research in order to enhance
the student experience.
Activities
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Institutional based discussions:
the university’s overall strategy with
respect to research-teaching linkages
the types of research related
attributes that learning, teaching and
assessment strategies aim to develop
in students
the ways in which institutional
strategies are informed by and
inform faculty/subject level
developments
Exercise 2
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What incentives exist in your
institution to foster the link
between research and teaching
either generally or in the
specific context of economics?
Are there any specific barriers
which inhibit the linking of
research and teaching?
Conclusion
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The QAA RTL: EGA theme brings
together some of the current
debate surrounding graduate
skills and attributes.
The main purpose of the theme,
however, is to find a clear and
transparent link between
research and teaching.