TILT Practice and Scholarship Groups

The DELITe P&S Group brings together colleagues who are interested in sharing and developing practice to enhance interactivity in learning and teaching. The group has membership from both academic and professional services and aims to be a community where everyone is supported to promote interactive learning and teaching for students. The group, through its activities, aims to demonstrate that interactive teaching and lectures can lead to greater student engagement, satisfaction and learning. It also works to promote interactivity in online learning and teaching.

Chair: Claire Cohen

The Innovative Pedagogy P&S Group builds conversations around pedagogic research to enhance the theoretical, conceptual and empirical understanding of learning and teaching processes, experiences, and outcomes at NTU. The group also works to support career progression at NTU based on distinction in learning and teaching and raise the profile of NTU as an institution of pedagogic rigour. In 2019/20 group delivered university-wide training on pedagogy through technology in response to the pandemic. In 2021/22 the focus will be on delivering a series of events across NTU focusing on planning pedagogic scholarship / research, ethics and writing.

Chair: Rob Ackrill, Phil Wane

The Maths and Statistics for Non-Mathematicians P&S Group provides a forum for staff and students across all disciplines and subject areas with an interest in statistics and mathematics to come together and share good practice(s) around the learning and teaching of statistics and mathematics. Due to the current landscape in HE, in 2021/22 the Group will also be sharing good practice(s) around online learning and teaching.

Chair: Laurence Shaw

The Multidisciplinary P&S Group promotes multidisciplinary collaboration across different disciplines at NTU. Newly relaunched, the Group will continue to provide a forum for the sharing of good practice(s), approaches and techniques to learning and teaching across all subjects / disciplines.

Chair: Ian Whittaker, Kerry Gough

The Apprenticeships & Work-Based Learning P&S Group is primarily concerned with exploring approaches to learning and teaching in work-based and vocational higher education, including apprenticeships, skills and technical education. The Group seeks membership from across further and higher education and other work-based learning and skills contexts. This is a newly formed Group which aims to promote conversations around effective pedagogy and practice(s) at NTU and across the sector.

Chair: Andy King and Co-chair: Joanna Booth

This group will look to address inequalities in student retention and success for students transitioning to HE from nonstandard entry routes (e.g. BTEC, City and Guilds, Access to HE).  It is recognised there is intersectionality between Success for All characteristics, with non-standard entry route students being more likely to also be ethnically diverse and from socioeconomically deprived areas (IMD Q1/Q2).  This is of greater relevance at ARES where students from nonstandard entry routes (58% - 2.6% above NTU average) are overrepresented. Additionally, Confetti has the highest nonstandard entry routes in the university (71% non A-level) followed by SST (45% non A-level).

This TILT group, therefore, has the potential to support collaboration across the University and is closely aligned to both Success for All and NTU University, reimagined strategic aims: Creating opportunity and Enriching society through supporting social mobility, Valuing and sharing ideas from collaboration with colleagues through research and scholarship and finally, Empowering people by working together to explore solutions to overcome the challenges presented by differing routes into HE.

Chair: Sarah Broadberry

Underpinned by Carol Dweck's research into the predictors and implications of fixed vs. growth mindsets during learning, the Mindset P&S Group's works to develop knowledge and practice(s) relating to student mindset. The group also aims to develop and evaluate effective strategies and interventions intended to enhance students' growth mindset, as well as their resilience.

Chair: Alex Holland-Leavens, Juliet Wakefield

The Supporting Learning for Employability Group promotes the integration of research informed employability learning across the curriculum, exploring the dimensions of both lifelong and lifewide learning. Recent activities undertaken by this group include hosting an Employability month on TILT Online, producing guest speaker highlight videos, creating a work-related learning podcast series and facilitating a peer led Coffee O’Clock series. All of these activities have been designed to enhance NTU's reputation as sector leading in learning for employability, and in 2021/22 we will continue to develop and disseminate scholarship, research and best practice that supports graduates future success in the workplace and beyond.

Chair: Cassie White, Doug Cole

The Active Learning @ NTU Practice & Scholarship group is a Community of Practice of / for academic and professional service colleagues and students drawn from across NTU interested in sharing knowledge / experience of effective Active Learning approaches / practices in the classroom and beyond. This includes, but is not limited to, SCALE-UP pedagogies.

In 2021/22 the group will continue to identify, develop and promote a wide range of Active Learning approaches and resources across NTU and evaluate the impact of Active Learning on student engagement, satisfaction and progression.

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Chair: Bianca Fox