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Welcome back to the blog for the Engineering Education Research Group!
We’ve been on an extended blog break (pandemic overhang), but the EERG blog is now back with new co-heads of the group, and a new series of blog posts to hopefully help, inspire, and inform.
Joel Ross and Becky Selwyn were appointed co-heads of the group in late 2023, and had a busy few months uncovering Faculty funding to support various members of the group to attend pedagogical conferences (sometimes for the first time) and to undertake various research projects (more on those in later posts).
Joel is a newly-promoted Associate Professor in Engineering Experimental Practice Education in the School of Civil, Aerospace, and Design Engineering. He has pioneered the use and evaluation of home lab kits to encourage playful learning and develop confidence in engineering students.
Becky is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Electrical, Electronic, and Mechanical Engineering. She has most recently been working on a project to make peer feedback work (or at least feel mostly acceptable) to 1st year students writing lab reports in Engineering by Investigation.
We hope the group will strengthen the community for disciplinary pedagogic researchers, and allow our members to innovate and lead the way with high impact best practices.
Your Co-Heads of Group,
Becky and Joel