When you look at the end product of colleagues’ writing it can be easy to assume that others are just good at writing – that they find it easy, and they are just better at it than you are. (Oh, hello, imposter syndrome, fancy seeing you here!) But actually, as we know from our teaching […]
Author: Sarah Honeychurch
Angry writing
By Sarah Honeychurch I am not often an angry writer, but sometimes a particular situation really gets me frustrated. One thing that particularly annoys me is when I am given a task or topic that is unclear – if a subject is so wide that there are many possible ways to approach it, putting pen […]
Day 10: The Power of Collaborative SoTL
Sarah Honeychurch, Linnea Soler, Vicky Price, Carolyn Loveridge, Frances Docherty, Nathalie Tasler, Beth Dickson, Lindsey Pope In this blog we want to talk about the power of collaboration and friendship, and how a serendipitous series of events bought us together as a group. Who are we? We are a group of LTS colleagues who came […]
Planning for serendipitous SoTL
A common topic of conversation for those of us who engage in SoTL, or who support others who do so, is the problem of obtaining ethical approval for SoTL projects that emerge at short notice. Having ethical approval in place before starting a SoTL project is obviously vital – we need to have carefully thought […]
Removing barriers from SoTL projects
For busy academics trying to design the best learning experiences possible for their students, the luxury of time to plan a SoTL project is a pipe dream. An ideal project might go something like this: However, one cannot always predict the type of learning methods worthy of formal investigation (such as the sudden switch to […]