Tag: communication skills

A photo of Dr Matthew Hopkinson and Dr Cristina Navarro Reguero

CHEMmunicate: an ice breaking chemistry game for enhancing communication skills and building a learning community

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Dr Cristina Navarro Reguero explains how she and colleague Dr Matthew Hopkinson designed the CHEMmunicate game, a fun, interactive activity for teams of students to draw chemical structures by asking yes/no questions, with the aim of building students’ communications skills alongside fundamental knowledge of organic chemistry content. The game has been showcased at national and international conferences as well as in a paper published in the Journal of Chemical Education.

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).

Virtual Summer School: Decolonising Research Methodologies in Applied Linguistics and Education

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Dr Sarah Ganassin oversaw a highly successful Virtual Summer School, bringing together students and staff from Newcastle University and the University of Nicosia in Cyprus to explore a wide range of issues, including decolonising theoretical perspectives, intercultural communication and collaboration, with the aim of equipping doctoral students with the research skills needed to progress their academic career.