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7 December 2023
3 minutes to readTop Banana Transformed by Mindfulness & Resilience?: Tackling Maths Anxiety and Boosting Maths Self-Concept for University Students
by Dr Julie Pepper and Dr Katherine Ashbullby The Top Banana network, which started thanks to an Exeter Education Incubator Discovery Grant, aims to share best practice at Exeter University to promote positive maths self-concept and prevent maths anxiety. It has a Microsoft Teams channel and 20 members (new members still welcome,…
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20 September 2023
3 minutes to read‘Melanin Matters’: A Student-Led Anti Racism Project
by Pavel Loginovic and Shihan Salihu We are Pavel and Shihan, two members of the Melanin Matters Team. Melanin Matters is a group composed of 4 Medical Students at the University of Exeter that aims to bridge the diversity knowledge gap existing in our medical curriculum. Everything started when we went to…
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16 August 2023
3 minutes to readDelivering Complex Simulated Exercises to Large Student Groups
by Dr Martin Robson, Senior Lecturer in Strategic Studies Simulated exercises are a proven pedagogical tool to provide students with a ‘sandpit’ to test concepts and theories in a simulated real-world context for the purpose of pedagogical progression, personal training and the reinforcement of skills and behaviours. Simulations involve participants to collaborate…
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19 July 2023
3 minutes to readGraduate Skills to Thrive
Find out how the Education Incubator grant has enabled the Business School to run a series of workshops to discover how students think they can harness the power of the new GRADUATE SKILLS TO THRIVE framework for their own professional skills development.
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5 July 2023
4 minutes to readNeurodiversity and Universal Design for Learning: Engaging Students and Educators
By Dr Tamsin Kilner Planning My Education Incubator Project So, I began thinking about my Incubator Discovery project in the following terms: ‘The literature indicates that neurodiverse students face greater challenges in HE, both in terms of engagement in learning and retention (see for example Clouder et al. 2020). They are also at greater…
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