A postgraduate student focus group exploring belonging and community provided valuable insights into authentic assessment, industry engagement and critical approaches to AI, helping inform curriculum redesign through the Leading Edge Curriculum (LEC) pilot.
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.
Reflective oral assessments in which students present a professional report based on research outputs developed in a final-year Combined Honours module in HaSS (HSS3099).
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.
In the Business School, Gill Holden and Fiona Thompson use peer assessment to ensure fairness in group projects.
Jennifer Dodds-Vigouroux explains using a reflective learning framework supports students to develop self-awareness, critical thinking and problem-solving skills and provides a strategy for continuous learning and development. Implementing a peer-based reflective model enables students to learn more effectively.
Pip Kyle explores a psychologically informed approach to supporting students to present and critically engage with research on leadership and harm. The case study relates to an international cohort of postgraduate students studying on an MSc in Management programme, Developing Leadership Perspectives module, committed to enhancing their leadership development and practice.
By being open and consistent about how AI supports learning materials, an MBA accounting module built trust, encouraged responsible use, and improved engagement with flipped resources— without making transparency feel like a lecture.
Adam Badger, Lecturer in Economic Geography, discusses sharing module responsibilities in Geography.