The pollen project is to devise, create and maintain a network for Psychology lecturers. Based in Scotland, though with relevance internationally, this blog has been designed as a starting point for the network: a space in which lecturers and teaching staff in psychology and related disciplines can create databases of learning materials, share good practice and collaborate on teaching and learning projects.

The broad aims of pollen are to:
(1) Undertake and support small research and service development projects as proposed by Scottish lecturers in psychology.
(2) Organise seminars on teaching and learning in psychology.
(3) Submit research proposals for further funding on teaching and learning in psychology in conjunction with Scottish psychology departments.
(4) Create a website to promote the work of pollen.
(5) Promote and disseminate good practice in teaching and learning within psychology in Scotland.

Wednesday 29 February 2012

Annual L&T conference at Glasgow

Registration is now open for the University of Glasgow's Annual Learning and Teaching conference. Closing date is 3rd April. 


The Conference will be held on the Main Campus of the University on 17th April 2012.  The main theme is "Empowering Student Learners in Higher Education". 

University of Glasgow Annual Learning & Teaching conference
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Tuesday 21 February 2012

Teaching Qualitative Psychology

For those who teach qualitative research methods, we have good news. The TQRMUL working group ('Teaching qualitative research methods at undergraduate level'; they never did find a better name!) which was part of the now defunct Higher Education Academy (HEA) Psychology Network, has now been reformed. The TQP group ('Teaching Qualitative Psychology'; okay, its a small improvement on the name) is now one of the HEA's 'Special Interest Groups', or SIGs. As soon as they have a website, we'll post the link up here.


The remit of this group is to support and develop teaching of qualitative research methods to both undergraduates and postgraduates. Coming soon will be a workshop for those who currently, or wish to, supervise undergraduate, qualitative psychology dissertations. Links will be added to pollen as soon as we have the details. 


See the link to the right to access the online resources developed by the TQRMUL group: a set of video-recorded interviews with 5 students about friendship, all available to download, alongside two versions of transcript for each.
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Thursday 16 February 2012

VIP: Vertically Integrated Projects

Vertically integrated projects - whereby staff and students from across disciplines work together on applied projects - are being tested out at the University of Strathclyde across a number of classes/

See the link for more details:
http://www.strath.ac.uk/viprojects/
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Sunday 5 February 2012

Conferences

The provisional programme for the Europlat 2012 (July) conference is now available (the details of presentations/workshops etc will follow soon). The Enhancement Themes conference in March 2012 has now revealed their programme of workshops and papers too. Click on the links on the right hand side of the blog for more details. Plenty of examples of innovative practice - including problem-based learning developments - to be seen here. 
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