HEA announces winners of prestigious grant funding awards
- Date: 24-05-2012
The Higher Education Academy (HEA) has today, 24 May 2012, announced the successful recipients of two new annual funding award programmes which will support the development of learning and teaching across UK higher education.
Each of the awards announced today will build on the HEA’s work in one or more of its seven key thematic areas of: assessment; education for sustainable development; employability; internationalisation; flexible learning; retention and success; and reward and recognition of teaching. Their outcomes will also help to build an evidence base for learning and teaching in these areas.
The recipients of the 2012 International Scholarship Scheme will undertake specific investigations outside of the UK and deliver specific outcomes for dissemination within the UK sector at the end of the scholarship. The scholarships include the transferability of good nursing educational practice between the UK and Singapore, and investigations in Canada and the Netherlands to support the design of an innovative interdisciplinary graduate programme suitable for UK HEIs.
Also announced today are the HEA’s Doctoral Programme awards, which form part of the HEA’s strategy to undertake research to develop pedagogical knowledge and evidence-based practice in higher education. The 15 awards have been made to academics to support Doctoral studentships in fields including the impact of retention strategies on part-time mature students in HE, and unpacking the dynamics of group interaction in problem-based learning.
The research outcomes from the Doctoral studentships will be disseminated throughout UK higher education.
Professor Craig Mahoney, Chief Executive of the HEA, said: “I am delighted to be making the announcement of these prestigious awards today. The award winners will work closely with the HEA over the coming months and years to help us to make a real difference to the learning experience of potentially thousands of students.
“The landscape of UK higher education continues to change at a rapid pace and it’s vital that we can share learning, not just from the UK but from around the world, if we are all to continue to meet the diverse needs of our students and those who teach them. I’m confident that the research outputs from our new Doctoral programme, whether from discipline-specific or generic pedagogic research, will have a significant impact on both policy and practice. I look forward to working with our award winners as they develop and carry out their projects.”
The details of all the International Scholarship award winners can be found here.
The details of the Doctoral Programme award winners can be found here.