The Medical School teamed up with NUBS to create Scrubs and Suits, a collaborative tabletop simulation game, bringing healthcare and business students together, helping them explore ethical healthcare management, resource allocation, digital innovation and patient care.
Dr Kate De Rycker describes how she designed public-facing alternative assessments in Renaissance literature modules so students can demonstrate their ability to translate complex academic knowledge into real-world outputs such as theatre programmes, exhibition guides and teaching packs while retaining academic rigour through the inclusion of a rationale.
Dr Patrick RosenKranz discusses how the School of Psychology designed enterprise challenges with charities to help students apply psychological literacy to real community issues, develop employability skills, and see how their subject knowledge can make a difference beyond professional psychology careers.
Dr Carys Watts explains how embedding short overseas research projects into the curriculum gives bioscience students a structured, supported and equitable way to experience international research without committing to a full semester or year abroad.
CultuRACE is a longitudinal, embedded pedagogical framework that uses playful, experiential, and reflective approaches to support culturally responsive practice, enabling students to engage safely and progressively with culture, power, bias, and professional responsibility.
Dr Chris Leyland discusses positioning students as active participants in scholarly practices that facilitate professional competences.
Dr Amy Proctor and Michelle Black reflect on how they embedded interdisciplinary problem-based learning into the design of a new module in SNES to help students explore sustainability challenges, develop a broad understanding of the SDGs and develop collaborative experiences and essential skills for future careers.
More than 130 Newcastle Law School students translate theory into action by getting involved in one of several pro-bono /community-based projects. The projects are wide ranging, from delivering awareness raising sessions through the Street Law Project, to other social justice-based initiatives with various partners which allow students to participate in live-client advice and research campaigns. Read more about Street Law: Bringing Legal Education to Newcastle Community[…]
Jo Clark (NUBS) describes working with MBA students to deliver a consultancy project, using the social value model, adding authenticity and contemporary relevance to academic theory, testing students’ skills as business consultants, and delivering value to a client organisation.
Dr John Holton, Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, describes designing a poster assignment for his stage 2 module that builds and tests diverse skill-sets, promotes student engagement by enabling students to self-select and then personally research their choice of topic, resulting in students showing an increased assessment confidence and unusually high engagement with the task.