Training

Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert) in Academic Practice: The PGCaP is run by the IAD aims to help you to develop and enhance your practice in your academic roles.

Practical strategies series: ‘Practical strategies for…’ is a workshop series hosted by the IAD that covers a broad range of current and future-oriented learning and teaching topics. The workshops are interactive and provide staff with opportunities to reflect on their own practice. The aim is that staff will leave with practical ideas they can take away and apply in their own disciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts.

Networks

The Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) Network: A network for staff interested in thinking, talking, reading, and writing about their teaching practice. It provides opportunities for discussion and reflection about university learning and teaching, supports understanding of the education literature, leads writing retreats, and serves as a collaborative community of scholarly academics across the university.

Board of Studies Network: A network for anyone interested or involved in Board of Studies work, including Board of Studies Convenors and Administrators. Meets once a semester to discuss pertinent topics around course and programme design.

Signposting

Teaching Matters: The University's Learning and Teaching blog and podcast, with over 1000 posts on learning and teaching practice relevant to The University of Edinburgh.

The University of Edinburgh Learning & Teaching Conference: A webpage linking to all previous annual Learning and Teaching Conference resources, including videos, slides and posters.

Funding and recognition

Principal's Teaching Award Scheme (PTAS) provides funding to support learning and teaching enhancement. There are two calls per year for applications: October and March, and staff can request funding for a Small Grant (monies up to a maximum of £2500) or a Regular Grant (monies between £2501 and £18000).

Student Partnership Agreement Small Project funding:  Annual funding of up to £1000 for projects that involve meaningful collaboration between University of Edinburgh staff and students.

Edinburgh Teaching Award (EdTA): The EdTA is a recognised route towards the different categories of Fellowship awarded by the Higher Education Academy (HEA). Becoming a Fellow of the HEA provides national recognition of commitment to professionalism in teaching and learning in higher education. The EdTA is open to all staff within the University who have roles which relate to teaching and/or supporting learning.

Evaluation Cookbook (88 pages): This document published by Herriot-Watt University in 1998 is a well-established venerable resource that, despite its age, is useful in thinking about how you can conduct your own evaluation and suggests techniques you can use. It is copyrighted but permission has been given for instructional use and distribution within UK higher education institutions.

Times Higher Education: Times Higher Education has a number of useful resources and advice

Advance HE: Advance HE provides support on enhancing teaching and learning, effective governance, leadership development and tackling inequalities through our equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) work.

Reports

Tipping out the Boot Grit: the use of on-going feedback devices to enhance feedback dialogue, ESCalate Developing Pedagogy and Practice 2009 Grant Project Final Report.

Journal articles

Huxham, M., Scoles, J., Green, U., Purves, S., Welsh, Z., & Gray, A. (2017). ‘Observation has set in’: comparing students and peers as reviewers of teaching. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 42(6), 887–899. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2016.1204594.