Excellence in Teaching
Our department’s excellence in teaching has been recognized with a number of awards and fellowships. As part of the SCEPTrE scheme which aims to promote excellence in Professional Training (placement learning) and enhance students' experiences through enquiry-rich approaches, our department has been awarded fellowships to develop negotiation-based learning (Simon Usherwood, 2007), to incorporate survey design in teaching political psychology and electoral behaviour (Tereza Capelos, 2008), to develop enquiry-based learning (Jason Abbott, 2008), and to establish an enquiry-based learning group (Maxine David and Roberta Guerrina, 2008).
As part of the Teaching with New Technologies (TeNT) scheme which encourages teachers to experiment with emerging technology, the department has received awards to work with interactive whiteboards (Simon Usherwood, 2007), to use Second Life to collect public opinion data (Tereza Capelos, 2008), to use social networking websites (Jason Abbot, 2008), and to develop a wiki for EU self-study (Roberta Guerrina and Maxine David, 2008).
