doctoral_programme_2012

The Higher Education Academy is inviting bids from UK higher education institutions to host one or more doctoral studentships for the academic year 2012-13.

The Doctoral Programme forms part of the HEA's strategy to undertake a significant and extensive study to develop pedagogical knowledge and evidence based practice in Higher Education. Five doctoral studentships are available in the coming academic year.

Calls open today and the closing date for submissions is 5pm on 31 August 2012.

Applications should relate to discipline-specific learning and teaching research or to interdisciplinary/generic pedagogical studies. They should show a clear benefit to either practice or to policy on practice.

Applications should be aligned with one or more of the HEA's themes: employability, assessment and feedback, flexible learning, internationalisation, retention and success (including widening access, gender, and transition issues), reward and recognition of teaching, education for sustainable development.

For more information about the HEA Doctoral Programme, or to apply, please click here.http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/doctoral-programme

Friday, 18 May 2012

Money - HEA teaching development grants

HEA launches next round of teaching development grants. Taken from: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/news/detail/2012/tdg_2012_launch The call for bids in the Higher Education Academy’s second phase of its teaching development grants has opened today, 18 May 2012. Over the next year the HEA will make funding available to stimulate evidence-based research and encourage innovations in learning and teaching on the themes of assessment and feedback and flexible learning. However, 25% of the available funding will be reserved for an open call for learning and teaching development. These projects could build on previous pedagogic work, or they could seek to develop a new area of work entirely. Today’s call is for individual academic staff, with funding ring fenced for Fellows of the HEA and new academic staff. Proposals may request up to £7,000 and the deadline for applications is 17 June 2012. The departmental call will open on the 28 August 2012 with a closing date for applications on the 30 September 2012. The collaborative call will open on the 7 January 2013 with a closing date for applications on the 3 March 2013. Details can be found at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/tdg