Attending representatives:

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University of Gloucestershire
Leading, promoting and supporting under-graduate
research in the new university sector
Attending representatives Peter Childs, Dean of
Research Mick Healey, co-Director CeAL
(CETL) Carolyn Roberts, co-Director CeAL
(CETL) Kristine Mason OConnor, Dean of Teaching
Learning Wendelin Romer, Research Assistant
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Undergraduate Research
Project on leading undergraduate research in new
universities to identify transferable practices
and inform policy seeking to enhance the student
experience at institutional and national levels.
The project will address two of the sectors
priority areas the student learning experience
academic leadership.
Our working definition undergraduate research
describes student engagement from induction to
graduation, individually and in groups, in
inquiry into disciplinary, professional and
community-based problems issues, including
involvement in knowledge exchange activities.
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Background UG Research

• Inter-Faculty cooperative projects to develop and
  evaluate students experiences of UG Research
• Increased student participation in research
  projects
• Inclusion of UG Research in the curriculum of our
  nationally-accredited PGC in HE, which all new
  academic staff undertake
• Participation in Carnegie scholarship of TL
  programme on Undergraduate Research (CASTL)
• Institutional Web pages containing guidance on UG
  Research for staff and students

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Activities

• An analysis of research-informed teaching
  statements and institutional policies with regard
  to leading, fostering and sustaining
  undergraduate research. This will draw on new
  universities TQEF plans under the RiT
  Initiative.
• A benchmarking exercise between the UoG and
  another new University in England using the
  template developed by Monash and Sydney
  Universities in Australia (Brew and Weir 2004).
• Trialling and evaluation of three undergraduate
  research initiatives at UoG.

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Activities

• A review and analysis, through our involvement
  with the Carnegie (CASTL) Leadership programme,
  of approaches to the leadership of undergraduate
  research in North America outside the
  research-intensive universities.
• The identification and development of 10 case
  studies to illustrate the range of ways in which
  UK HEIs are leading and fostering undergraduate
  research, and the way they play out by
  departments and disciplines.