Category: Faculty of Business

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From “ivory tower” to “real world”: Transforming learning, teaching and research through Living Labs

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In the past years, we all witnessed a progressive blurring of the boundaries between universities and their environment. Once depicted through metaphors such as the “ivory tower”, universities are now expected to be “entrepreneurial” and accomplish multiple missions by opening up to many stakeholders (Etzkowitz, 2014). On the one hand, from a teaching perspective, co-creation with learners… Continue reading

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Learning to fly: Helping postgraduate students learn the craft of independent research

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1. Our aims  This blog aims first to assess the learning opportunities that the new pedagogical philosophy of the “connected curriculum” may offer students. We also want to reflect on how curriculum design may facilitate these opportunities. We hope that our reflections will invite conversations on putting this new philosophy… Continue reading

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Supporting Faculty of Business Students’ Placement Journey during the pandemic

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Introduction  The decision to undertake a placement year is a complex one. Students must weigh up opportunity and risk to find a balance between fear of failure and the desire for success. The students who were in the middle of their placements, as the first lockdown was announced in March 2020 were part way through… Continue reading

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Business School Employability Office: Supporting students to master the virtual recruitment process

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The Business School Employability Office (hereafter, BSEO) needed to help students to adapt quickly to recent virtual recruitment changes which resulted after a shift to remote working due to the COVID-19 crisis. In this blog we (Helen Kofler and Raluca Marinciu, Employability Advisors at the BSEO) outline the ways in… Continue reading

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Inclusion and online sharing of teaching practice during the Covid-19 crisis: The case of the Business and Economic Education (BEE) sessions

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Introduction  This blog post is about a recent experience within the Economics and International Business (EIB) department where we effectively mobilised collective knowledge and shared practices during the transition to online teaching amid the Covid-19 crisis. It is the story of how the Business and Economics Education (BEE), a series… Continue reading

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Being a Student Researcher – Personal Reflection

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Being offered the position of a Student Researcher at the beginning of term 2 initially gave me the opportunity to develop my researcher identity and gain an interdisciplinary insight and understanding of the Higher Education system from an academic perspective – an opportunity that gradually evolved to become an experience… Continue reading

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Enhancing Employability: A Student-led Project using LinkedIn

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Why ViewPoints?  April 2020 was a time when the whole world was still trying to deal with the shock of a global pandemic. The lives of everyone were turned upside down and university students were no exception. For almost all students who were entering their summer term of studies, the… Continue reading

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TNE Roundtable: Connectivity, Cultural Challenges and Partnership Enhancement

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Introduction  The Learning & Teaching Festival provided an opportunity for our transnational education (TNE) partners in southeast Asia and Europe to share their experiences of delivering our programmes of study during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our TNE partners operate in diverse locations such as Vietnam, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Zambia, Greece,… Continue reading

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Inclusive curriculum design and curriculum co-creation as responses to the HE diversity challenge

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A mix of established trends in the HE sector notably widening participation and internationalisation combined with the more recent introduction of a teaching quality audit in the form of the Teaching Excellence Framework has heightened focus on the factors that may underpin retention and attainment gaps between different groups of… Continue reading

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‘Move fast and break things’ – Breakouts before breakout rooms: a wish list and lessons learned

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I decided to experiment with breakout rooms in Teams some weeks ago, in mid-October 2020.  It was clear that large group tutorials would not be the right forum for the activity we planned – short, individual presentations.  The official Teams release of breakout rooms was not available yet, so we… Continue reading