Category: Interdisciplinary approaches

An image of the top section of the 'How does it work?' info graphic, including the title, a cartoon figure with question marks above its head, the words PEC in HCA, followed by a short explanation of what a PEC is.

Supporting students through Personal Extenuating Circumstances (PEC) via tailored infographic

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John Holton, Director of Education in HCA explains how student demand for clarity on navigating the PEC process led him to develop a bespoke, student-facing infographic, re-packaging important information and key take-aways in an engaging and easy to understand format, resulting in a reduction in student anxiety, increasing confidence in the process, and reducing workload for staff responding to queries.

An image of the title image of one of the Newcastle University Team's Induction Period Challenge presentation. It shows a group of people holding planet Earth in their hands, while other people hold, a light bulb, a solar panel and someone kneeling down gardening. There are wind turbines in the background.

Incorporating the Peer Mentoring Induction Period Challenge on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals into Teaching

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Dr Helen Mason and Gabrielle Vallons explain how the Peer Mentor Induction Period Challenge on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals is incorporated into first year teaching and delivered to students studying Nutrition and Dietetics, creating opportunities for students to submit group proposals for creative and innovative solutions to campus related issues with the potential to have lasting impact across the student body, alongside enhancing Peer Mentors’ personal and professional development.

Image of the cover design for the Get Sust! Sustainable Development Goals Board Game. It has 4 logos from the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals: clean water and sanitation; life on land; affordable and clean energy and life below water.

Get Sust! Working in partnership with students to co-develop a board game for raising student awareness of sustainable development

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Tracy Scurry, Professor of Work and Employment and Sarah Carnegie, Senior Lecturer in HRM from Newcastle University Business School, discuss the Get Sust! project, working in partnership with students to develop a game-based learning approach to engage Business School students with sustainable development, to facilitate a social and developmental learning experience, and support the personal development of students by enhancing their teamworking skills and global and cultural awareness.

Critical intercultural incidents

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Alina Schartner, Lecturer in Applied Linguistics collaborated with Nathan Rousseau, from Indiana University-Purdue University, Columbus (IUPUC) on a 4-week curriculum-embedded virtual exchange activity entitled ‘critical intercultural incidents’, involving MA Cross-Cultural Communication students at Newcastle University and undergraduate sociology students at (IUPUC).

Photograph of Adam Rathbone

From Medications to Music Therapy (and back again): an undergraduate virtual exchange using intergroup dialogue to support cultural competence

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Dr Adam Rathbone, Lecturer in Social and Clinical Pharmacy at the School of Pharmacy collaborated with Dr Meganne Masko, Associate Professor of Music Therapy, to adapt the intergroup dialogue method of developing cultural competence to a virtual exchange between Pharmacy students in Newcastle and Music Therapy students from Indiana University – Purdue University, Indiana (IUPUI).

A photograph of Dr Lucy Hatt

Design Sprints as a collaborative pedagogy for innovation, enterprise and sustainability

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Dr Lucy Hatt, Senior Lecturer in Leadership, discusses how the Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) at Newcastle University Business School uses the structured process of a Design Sprint to enable learners to develop entrepreneurial thinking and utilise design thinking techniques that can be applied to the workplace in real time.

Rosalind Beaumont

The SustainaWHAT? Gatherings – embedding Education for Sustainable Development in PGR education and researcher development

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Rosalind Beaumont, Senior Lecturer in School X discusses how Newcastle PGR students had the opportunity to come together via a cross-faculty series of events during COP26 in November 2021, to explore and discuss their research through the lens of sustainable development. This allowed students to develop a wide range of skills, collaborate across disciplines and reflect on their experiences and learning.

Newcastle campus and Loyola campus

‘Advancing the SDG’s Together’: a US/UK Student Symposium

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Students worked together in this online event to share experiences and develop ideas to advance selected Sustainable Development Goals.

Equitable Assessment Framework for today’s Digital Learners

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This collaborative project supported instructor’s adoption of the Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) framework to help structure and communicate their assessments.

Reduced Inequalities

Sustainable Futures in Focus – Global Partner Student Research Poster Competition and Forum

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A collaboration with four other Universities provided students with a unique opportunity to showcase research related to UN Sustainable Development Goal 10: Reduce inequalities within and among countries.