All projects within this Directory have already been completed in the Academic year 19-20.
Faculty of Engineering
- Aeronautics: Wellbeing Connection and Community
- Civil and Environmental Engineering: Co-development of an interactive module on earthquake engineering *recruitment ad included*
- Civil Engineering: Evidence for better design education: measuring curriculum review effects in a quantitative way
- Computing: Innovating Computing Professional Skills teaching
- Civil and Environmental Engineering: Visualising Crowds - Creating interactive materials for the Crowd Science I-STEMM module *recruitment ad*
- Earth Science and Engineering: ISTEMM Space Mining *recruitment ad included*
- Computing: Next generation online learning tools *recruitment ad included*
- Aeronautics: Immersive interactive learning platform for science and engineering
- Computing: Developing Resources for Academic Integrity Teaching *recruitment ad included*
- Earth Science and Engineering: Building digital geological models
- Civil and Environmental Engineering: Pedestrian Dynamics for MSc/MEng Civil Engineers
- Aeronautics: Digital and audio-visual resources to promote active learning in Aeronautics
- Earth Science and Engineering: Embedding Python programming in all aspects of the undergraduate geoscience programme
- Dyson School of Design Engineering: Inclusive Engineering Contexts for Mathematics
- Dyson School of Design Engineering: Codesigning a behaviour change module using workshop-based learning *recruitment ad included*
- Mechanical Engineering: Online Problem sheets for mathematical topics *recruitment ad included*
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Creating a Virtual Campus
Summary
Four students required due to 3 key areas of improvement in curriculum development and community building for the next academic year identified by the student wellbeing adviser, staff members and the students. 3 student shapers can select which one of the identified improvement areas they would like to work on based on their own identified skill set and the fourth student shaper will help manage the project with the staff partner and other student shapers.
- Identify and create student-centred resources for wellbeing and soft skills development on MS teams.
- Build a stronger staff and student community remotely.
- Increase student engagement in wellbeing and soft skills training content and delivery.
Project area
Curriculum Development
Project lead
Amy Picton, Student Wellbeing Advisor
Further Details/Experience Required
4 weeks full-time over Summer break, August-September
Summary
Ensuring that the views and perspectives of non-civil engineering students are incorporated at all levels of the design, delivery and assessment in the newly created IExplore module 'Earthquake Engineering'. This will include review of module content and alignment with undergraduate expectations and needs, co-scripting multimedia material for the module and co-production of teaching materials.
Project lead
Christian Malaga-Chuquitaype, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Further Details/Experience Required
2 students ideally from the first and last years of study, preferably from Faculty of Medicine or Faculty of Life Sciences
Part-time over Summer term (19-20), then 4 weeks full-time during Summer break, then part-time over Autumn term (20-21).
Please note updated recruitment deadline and details.
Summary
Assessing the impact of curriculum review on Year 1 undergraduate Civil and Environmental Engineering
Project type:
Ad-hoc (Curriculum development)
Project lead:
Dr Roel Schipper - Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Further details/experience required
UG Year 2 or 3 Civil Engineering student, 1 student in total.
Summary
Reviewing (alongside the staff partner) the professional skills teaching within the Computing department, as well as shaping future teaching via development of surveys, analysing data and developing the ongoing approach.
Project area
Curriculum Development
Project lead
Dr Thomas Lancaster, Senior Teaching Fellow, Computing
Further Details/Experience Required
1 undergraduate student from the Engineering faculty
Summary
Co-creating two computational models of pedestrian motion. The students will work with the Imperial Visualisations team to produce the functional code that enables the models to run, and visualisation code that allows users to interact with the visualisations created through an open access online platform.
Project lead
Georgia Bateman, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Further Details/Experience Required
2 students, ideally undergraduates who have already completed their 2nd or 3rd year of studies. Any department student is applicable provided they have programming experience. Ideally students from the Physics and Maths departments, or Faculty of Engineering students with experience in the Java or Python programming languages.
8 weeks during Summer break, full-time.
Please note change of deadline date: 'Visualising crowds' recruitment ad
Summary
This project will co-develop module content for the new 'Space Mining' IExplore module, with students from diverse backgrounds in order to be multi-disciplinary; this will involve refining the curriculum and source-approprite learning resources. Each student will address one of three areas of the module: legal, technical or economic aspects.
Project lead
Kathryn Hadler, Earth Science and Engineering
Further Details/Experience Required
3 students undergraduates ideally all from different departments in year 3 or 4 of their studies.
4-6 weeks of full-time work over the Summer break.
Please note deadline extension:
Summary
Online learning and the use of digital technology is a key part of Imperial’s Learning and Teaching Strategy. Over the course of this project, students andstaff will work together to create modern applications with smooth and seamless user interfaces, supporting the everyday activities of learning andteaching within the College - for example the workflow of submitting, assessing and returning coursework, managing learning resources for each module(notes, lecture recordings, exercises, student forums, peer assessment, in-class quizzes, etc), communication between students and staff, online labs,innovative assessment methods etc.
Project area
Curriculum Development
Project lead
Robert Chatley, Deputy Director UG Studies, Computing
Further Details/Experience Required
3 Computing students (preferably 1st or 2nd year undergraduates) - good software engineering skills are required.
10 weeks full-time during Summer holidays.
Summary
Further development of the learning platform introduced last year for the ERO95009 Structural Mechanics and Dynamics modules. This will involve numerical simulations and expanding on the existing materials.
Project area
Curriculum Development
Project lead
Professor Silvestre Pinho, Department of Aeronautics
Further Details/Experience Required
3 2nd year Undergraduate students, for 10 weeks over the Summer holidays.
Summary
Project lead
Thomas Lancaster, Computing Department
Further Details/Experience Required
2 Undergraduate students. The partner may be from any discipline eligible to take the STEMM module. It would be helpful if they have some understanding of research methods.
6-8 weeks full-time over the Summer break.
Summary
Reviewing lecture content to locate key points where digital geological models would enhance learning, listing the key specifications. The second phase will be the implementation of the digital geological models after becoming proficient with the the numerical simulation software package.
Project area
Curriculum Development
Project lead
Dr Cedric John, Reader in Carbonate Systems and Carbonate Reservoirs, Earth Science and Engineering
Further Details/Experience Required
2 students, one must be within their 2nd or 3rd year.
4-6 weeks of part-time engagement during term-time, followed by 6-8 weeks of full-time engagement during Summer holidays.
Summary
The practical and academic development of a MSc level course on the burgeoning area of Pedestrian Dynamics.
Project type:
Translation of research
Project lead:
Arnab Majumdar - Civil and Environmental Engineering dept
Further details/Experience required
2 Postgraduates - students already appointed.
Summary
Developing digital tools for enhancing the learning experience of Aeronautics students; involving scripts and apps in order to promote active learning and a more student-centred curriculum.
Project area
Curriculum Development
Project lead
Maria Ribert Vicent, Teaching Fellow, Aeronautics
Further Details/Experience Required
3 students from the Aeronautics Department, preferably having completed their 2nd or 3rd year of study
6 weeks full-time over the Summer holiday
Summary
Working with teaching staff to audits and interview Undergraduate peers for insight in to the where Python programming could be best utilised in each module, before generating a Python notebook across each module in the undergraduate curriulum. Strong computational skills will be a requirement.
Project area
Curriculum Development
Project lead
Matthew Piggott, Professor of Computational Geoscience and Engineering
Further Details/Experience Required
3 Engineering students in total; a Year 1 student focusing on year 1 modules just completed, a Year 2 student focusing on year 2 modules just completed, and a Year 3 student focusing on Year 3 modules just completed.
6-8 weeks of engagement over the Summer holiday.
Summary
This project is looking to augment our Engineering Mathematics learning and teaching materials with a bank ofauthentic contexts and examples that are relevant to design engineering as a whole and outward looking for what students could be faced with in new industrial settings.Project area
Curriculum Development
Project lead
Freddie Page, Dyson School of Engineering
Further Details/Experience Required
Four students from the Dyson School of Design Engineering. Students must have either just completed their first year, in which case they will haverecently completed the Engineering Mathematics module (a two-term first year module) and be most familiar with its current content, or have justcompleted their second year, where they will have a wider perspective of design engineering contexts and will have completed modules that hold Engineering Mathematics as a prerequis
5 weeks full-time over the Summer break.
Summary
This project involves the co-creation of a new module on designing interventions for behavioural change. The learning in the module will be broad and can be applied to the design of products, services, experiences, events, policies and organisational change. In this sense, the learning should be applicable to interested students from any background. Students will first learn the information about the content and then help plan interactive workshops through which the learning will take place. Together, three to four workshops will be planed for delivery in Autumn 2020.
Project lead
Weston Baxter, Dyson School of Design Engineering
Further Details/Experience Required
Students from Design Engineering as well as those from other departments should apply. Generally speaking, we expect UG students to be ideal for this role though taught PG students may also apply.
The work will be 6 weeks full time starting in the summer. Exact times will be agreed with the student shapers. The project will be arranged with schedules such that student partners can join remotely to collaboratively complete the work in the event that this is needed.
'Behaviour change model using workshop based learning' recruitment ad
Summary
Building on the StudentShapers project of 2019, which aimed to improve learning on the Fluid Mechanics module by enhancing the online problem sheets, students will improve upon the existing 'Solutions Bank' of problem sheets. This will include implementing upgraded features via the supporting (Mobius) software to enable full functionality including mathematical answer checking and data analytics.
Project area
Curriculum Development
Project lead
Dr Peter Johnson, Mechanical Engineering
Further Details/Experience Required
2 students working full-time for 8 weeks over the Summer break.Summary
The project splits into two phases. In Phase 1 the main design decisions and implementation is completed. Phase 2, after ethics approval, will involve rollout next academic year. Multiple students are hired in Phase 2 to allow roll-out to multiple interested departments, and/or student societies.
The work will be modelled on successful 3rd year EEE group projects, in which students have high control of content, and planning, subject to meeting the requirements of an industrial sponsor. Students take advice from an academic supervisor, but we find in practice that decisions are made by the group. Involvement of all students is maintained through careful planning and peer review by the group. In this case that aspect would have academic oversight.
In this project the students have a uniquely important role, since they are well placed to investigate what works and what does not work fostering student social interaction.
The learning and teaching strategy highlights active learning and student peer to peer learning, for example through the use of TBL classes. Maintaining these in a virtual study environment creates challenges in social engagement, which this project seeks to answer.
The project will involve literature review, choice of virtual world tools (probably based around Mozilla Hubs Cloud), implementation of methods to virtualise teaching (lectures, TBL classes, labs), implementation of a virtual world in which teaching links are embedded for use next academic year.
Project area
Curriculum Development
Project leads
Thomas Clarke, Senior Teaching Fellow, Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Further Details/Experience Required
Phase 1 - Recruited
Phase 2 - 10 MEng students in their 1st, 2nd of 3rd year of study. Part-time during term time.
Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Medicine: Authentic Resilience Learning Through Critical Reflection & it's Embedding into the PG curricula-
- School of Public Health: Social Accountability in action: a collaborative project between Imperial College and local schools *recruitment ad*
- Faculty of Medicine: The return of partnership - evaluating the delivery of the new Research Skills Domain
- School of Public Health: Student and Community Shapers for the Medical Education Innovation and Research Centre (MEdIC) within School of Public Health
- School of Public Health: (Re)developing the Global Health BSc *recruitment ad included*
- Faculty of Medicine: Developing online learning to aid transition to Masters in FoM *recruitment ad included*
- Faculty of Medicine: Developing an IExplore STEMM Module on 'Personalised medicine, hype or hope' *updated recruitment ad included*
- School of Public Health: Virtual Roundtable for Collaborative Multistakeholder Education Design (ViRCoMED)
- Faculty of Medicine: Enhancing Year 4 MBBS support provisions *recruitment ad included*
- Faculty of Medicine: Redesigning the Lab interactive manual for Yr 1 students *recruitment ad included*
- Surgery and Cancer: The Making of a Doctor - Cross-disciplinary learning in undergraduate medical education *recruitment ad included*
Summary
The StudentShapers would develop critical reflective skills as a way of building authentic resilience, over the duration of the project. The 12 Studentshapers will reflect individually and together, identifying aspects of their research experience in the Imperial laboratories that have helped them develop resilience and finally codesign with us, teaching and learning activities to support these skills across the curriculum of MRes Biomedical Research.
Project type
Curriculum Development
Project lead
Dr Latha Ramakrishnan, Faculty of Medicine, Strategic Teaching Fellow.
Further Details/Experience Required
MRes students in Faculty of Medicine - 12 in total. The project will run for 7 months (Nov 2019 – May 2020). Each student will spend 18-20 hours over the entire period (spread as 2 or 3 hours per month and paid £45 per month for 7 months).
Summary
Co-designing the IExplore 'Social Accountability in Action' module; this will involve curriculum development as well as associated digital learning approaches. Student insight in to near-peering learning is at the heart of the module and student perspective is thus invaluable.
Project lead
Bethan Golding, School of Public Health
Further Details/Experience Required
1 student, ideally either undergraduate Medical student or Faculty of Natural Sciences student from any year of study.
Full-time over Summer break, 4-6 weeks subject to student availability.
Summary
Reviewing the delivery of last summer's work on Research Skills Domain, and implement improvements. Reviewing pre-BSc online course materials, and expanding the Research Skills Domain's implementation in to Year 2.
Project area
Curriculum Development
Project lead
Joana Dos Santos, Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Medicine
Further Details/Experience Required
2 students working full time at a total of 10 days during the Summer break.
Summary
Co-production and innovation around pedagogical themes and related courses that are run within the PCPH department. Key areas of development within MEdIC include 1. Longitudinal Placements, 2. Coaching, and 3. Diversity and Inclusion.
Project area
Curriculum Development
Project lead
Dr Ravi Parekh, School of Public Health
Further Details/Experience Required
3 MBBS students from any year.
Summary
Reviewing the curriculum of the Global Health BSc course via a process of collaborative education design with current students.
Project area
Partnership Pedagogies
Project lead
Mariam Sbaiti, Senior Teaching Fellow, School of Public Health
Further Details/Experience Required
2 students preferably currently undergoing the Global Health BSc. The time commitment for the project is part-time during term-time (March-May) before full-time engagement between May-September.
Summary
Student partners will co-create a non-credit bearing online short course as part of induction for students joining the Faculty of Medicine and PGT level.
Project area
Curriculum Development
Project lead
Anna Maria Jones, Postgraduate Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Medicine
Further Details/Experience Required
2 StudentShapers who are studying at Master's level within any Department in the Faculty of Medicine (or PhD student(s) providingthey have previously studied at Master’s level within this Faculty)
Summary
The project will support the development of the "Personalised Medicine: Hype or Hope" module including selection and development of appropriate study materials (by the PhD student), planning, scripting, acting and creation of videos to be used as scenarios during face-to face sessions (by all 3 studentshapers) and also beta-testing of online platforms and/or pre-session study materials
Project area
Curriculum Development
Project lead
Latha Ramakrishnan, Faculty of Medicine
Further Details/Experience Required
- 1 PhD student at six hours per week for 32 weeks between Mid-March and Mid-December
- 2 Undergraduate students (1 in year 2 from FoNS, 1 from year 2/3 from FoE) - working three hours per week during term-time between April-December 2020, plus two full-time weeks during summer (exact summer dates to be negotiated with student partner upon appointment)
Please note updated recruitment ad
Summary
Involvement in the organisation and running of the ViRCoMED from beginning to end; curriculum and assessment in Refugee Health in particular.
Project type:
Curriculum Development
Project lead:
Dr Mariam Sbaiti - School of Public Health (m.sbaiti@imperial.ac.uk)
Further details/Experience required
Alumni of BSc Global Health programme still undergoing study at Imperial college, 2 students in total, 10 half days during Summer term-time and 2 weeks at full-time during Summer holidays.
Summary
Enhancing support provision for students, acting as co-designers using focus group data to create key resources such as induction videos and student guides.
Project area
Curriculum Development
Project lead
Prabha Parthasarathy, Senior Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Medicine
Further Details/Experience Required
- 2 prospective year 4 MBBS students for 4 weeks full time during vacation time
- 2 internal former year 4 MBBS students for 2 weeks during vacation and 2 weeks during term time
- 2 external intercalating former year 4 MBBS students for 2 weeks during vacation time.
Summary
Students will engage with identifying areas of difficulty in the Lab interactive manual and assist in the co-designing of updates that are more user-friendly.
Project area
Curriculum Development
Project lead
Luisa Garcia Haro, Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Medicine
Further Details/Experience Required
3 students across 4 weeks full-time in the Summer break.Summary
Developing and implementing small group interactive learning exercises which would allow medical students to learn skills from other disciplines, such as performing arts, cooking, and painting. Once designed these programmes will be piloted with smal groups of medical students in an educational reseach setting.
Project area
Curriculum Development
Project lead
Natasha Houghton, Strategic Clinical Fellow, Dept of Surgery and Cancer
Further Details/Experience Required
1 student (preferably in one of the final three years of their MBBS degree).Faculty of Natural Sciences
- Mathematics: Peer learning and teaching in a remote environment
- Physics: Developing Origins - an IExplore Module *recruitment ad included*
- Chemistry: 'Chemical Kitchen Toolkit'
- Physics: 'Redesigning the Physics Teaching Laboratory space for the 21st Century'
- Life Sciences: Radically redesigned undergraduate programmes *recruitment ad included*
- Physics: Informal Learning spaces in Blackett entrance levels 2 and 3
Summary
The project has three main areas:
1. To work with academic staff to review remote teaching proposals and specifically look at face-to-face contact hours and how to improve student engagement and interaction with staff. Student partners will be engaged with research into best practice, testing options and take part in practice problems classes/office hours/review forum and other q&a opportunities. Studentshapers to work across the Department, sometimes in smaller groups.
2. Review peer tutorial provision for remote learning environment, identify physical resources and training required and test virtual WhiteBoards and other online software available. Develop training materials and programme plan.
3. Develop remote community building and social activities - specifically thinking about how to create a virtual Maths Common Room (for casual student interaction over academics and work) and virtual social activities
Project area
Curriculum Development
Project lead
Inkeri Hibbins, Undergraduate Liaison Officer
Further Details/Experience Required
4 Undergraduate Mathematics students - Ideally two students about to enter MSci programme and two students entering either year 2 or 3.
6 weeks full-time work over the Summer break.
Summary
The project will work through each of the sub-areas of the 'Origins' course, discussing the interests and existing knowledge that the diverse student shapers have in these areas, and examining what they would want to achieve through further study of these areas. In collaboration with the project leader, this will then lead to breaking down each area (eg. Origin of Life) into a small number of separate sub-topics (eg. The Requirements for Life, The History of Life on Earth) that will be used as research topics during the course. This will also include quiz development appropriate to non-domain experts and software testing for the online materials.
Project lead
David Clements, Physics
Further Details/Experience Required
4 students, ideally second years, from a variety of departments, ideally including one from physics, one from life sciences, one from earth sciences, plus one from none of the above.
9 weeks full-time over the summer break.
Summary
Following our partnership with 3 student shapers in Summer 2019, we successfully rolled out the Chemical Kitchen (CK) project in the Department of Chemistry (Chemical Kitchen uses culinary practice as a non-threatening parallel to the working environment of professionals of science andmedicine).
We now seek to develop a Chemical Kitchen Toolkit that can be deployed more widely across Imperial College London, focussing on skills training relevant across a wide range of disciplines. This will involve co-developing learning activities, focus groups and reflection sessions.
Project area
Curriculum Development
Project lead
Luke Delmas, Teaching Fellow, Department of Chemistry
Further Details/Experience Required
3 Students, one each from Engineering, Medicine, Natural Sciences (preference for higher years of study).
Full-time over summer vacation from 1st July - 11th August.
Summary
Collaborating with Undergraduate peers and staff members in the redesigning of the Physics Teaching Laboratory space. This will include illiciting a consensus of opinion from peers as well as seeing this through to the integration into design plans. Acting as a partnership bridge between the department, and the broader department student community.
Project type
Space Design
Project lead
Dr Simon Bland, Department of Physics
Further Details/Experience Required
2 Undergraduate Physics Department students, from year 2 or 3.
Summary
In response to a curriculum review of the Department of Life Sciences UG degrees, both BSc degrees are being modified.
In Year 2 across the two-degree streams there are three-strands to the redesign:
- Developing 3 new traditional lecture-based modules which have a large exam assessment component: Molecular Microbiology; Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience; Essentials of Ecology
- Converting 4 current lecture-based modules to summer course-work only modules: Vertebrate Form and Evolution; Applied Molecular Biochemistry; Challenges in Cell Biology; and Topics in Biotechnology
- Developing 3 new summer course-work only modules: Computational Omics, Molecular Skills, and Ecosystems Field Course.
Current Year 2 students are ideally placed to help develop the curriculum for the next cohort of second year students. Student partners will be involved in co-creating new teaching activities and genuine assessments that link to module intended learning outcomes. The co-created teaching activities will range from producing compendia and quizzes from lecture content to computer and laboratory practical work and fieldwork.
Project area
Curriculum Development
Project lead
Magda Charalambous, Principal Teaching Fellow
Further Details/Experience Required
Six life sciences undergraduate students, ideally currently undergoing Year 2. Six weeks full-time during Summer break.
Summary
Key project activities include:
- Consultation and research of suppliers
- Scoping, identifying and understanding ‘good’ design features in other parts of the college and possibly at other institutions
- Exploration and understanding of constraints to be applied to the design (e.g., considerations about circulation routes, disabled access, durability, etc)
- Preparation of provisional student led designs
- Consultation on provisional designs
- Development of project phasing/prioritisation plan
- UG and PG students to keep a diary/journal of approaches and findings, including design drawings, photos of space etc, to demonstrate both process and outcome of student centred design to maintain the ‘partnership bridge’ to the broader student community
- There may be scope and value to continuing some activities in early autumn term when there is greater availability of other students as well as some promotional activities of the new space to students.
Project area
Space Design
Project lead
Yasmin Andrew, Student Liason Officer in Dept of Physics
Further Details/Experience Required
3 student in total, 2 Undergraduate and 1 Postgraduate, for five weeks full time over Summer break for the first phase of the project.
Students already appointed.
Multidisciplinary or non-Faculty based projects
- Imperial Horizons: 'Learning Lexicon' *recruitment ad included*
- Careers Service: First Year Undergraduates - What Should I do with my Summer? *recruitment ad included*
- Imperial Horizons: 'Dear Diary'
- Centre for Academic English: Reshaping how we empower students *recruitment ad included*
- Imperial Horizons: Great Expectations
- Collaborative Partnerships Office: Why do students pursue international placements during undergraduate medical studies?
- Education Office: 'Designing the I-Explore STEMM module portfolio'
- EDU/CHERS: Being a Student in a Digital Age
- Digital Learning Hub: Augmented Simulations
- Computing and Mathematics: Redesign of Huxley Level 3 Foyer Area *recruitment ad included*
- Education Office and CHERs: Imperial Award proof of concept mobile app *recruitment ad included*
Summary
A survey-based project where the staff-student partners design an interactive online questionnaire to collect student views and responses to different types of learning words with the aim of refining our use of learning words to better engage with future students.
Project area
I-Explore
Project lead
Daisy Pataki, Teaching Fellow in Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication
Further Details/Experience Required
Three undergraduate students.
Summary
Researching the topic of first year students undergoing Summer internships via students, alumni and employees. Before creating engaging new content for the Careers Service to expand the thinking and raise the confidence of pre-arrival and first year undergraduate students in planning their summer.
Project area
Curriculum Development
Project lead
Madelaine Chapman, Careers Consultant, Careers Service
Further Details/Experience Required
1 undergraduate student from any Department, in their first, second or third year.
Summary
A partnership autoethnographic study capturing individual experiences of our first year Change Makers modules, with contributions from staff, co-learners and student partners diarying and sharing their experiences of the same module at the same time.
Project type
Educational Research
Project lead
Elizabeth Hauke, Field Leader in Change Makers of Imperial Horizons
Further Details/Experience Required
16 students in total, 8 undergraduates and 8 postgraduates.
This is open to first year undergraduate students from any department who are enrolled on any of the three Global Challenges (Analysing Global Progress/Collecting and Understanding Data/Innovating for Change) Change Maker modules in the autumn term 2019. It is also open to research postgraduate students who are appointed to the module as Co-Learners. We don’t normally recruit Co-Learners until the beginning of October, but anyone that is interested in the project will also be considered for one of the Co-Learner roles before then.
Summary
Engaging with the CfAE curriculum review as they aim to support the growing diversity of assessment's UG students encounter, and the resulting potential challenges to academic literacy and oral communication skills, students will be involved in quantitative and qualitative data collection and running of focus groups, as well as transcript analysis and presentation of their findings.
Project area
Curriculum Development
Project lead
June Hammond, Teacher of English for Academic purposes, Centre for Academic English
Further Details/Experience Required
6 students for one half day per week per student - over 12 weeks as follows.
• writing the questionnaire and focus questions immediately after the summer term with support from staff partners – 3 half days
• drafting the ethics application with staff partners – 2 half days
• Start of Autumn term – student partners distribute the questionnaire 1 half day
• From week 2, organise 4 focus groups to be completed by the end of term – 2 half days
• At the end of Autumn term student/staff partners analyse data using NVivo 12 and prepare a presentation of the data – 4 half-days
3 x year 1 undergraduate students from the Faculty of Engineering, 2 x year 1 undergraduate students from the Faculty of Natural Sciences,1 x year 1 undergraduate students from the Faculty of Medicine.
Summary
Student partners engaging with students enrolled on Change Makers 20 week modules during the 2019-20 academic year. Data collection and analysis as well as preparation for a final seminar.
Project type
Educational research
Project lead
Cleo Bowen, Change Makers Administrator within Imperial Horizons
Further Details/Experience Required
6 students in total, undergraduates from any department, who have taken or are taking for the first time this year any Imperial Horizons module.
Summary
Exploring motivating factors, collecting and analysing research via focus groups and questionnaires.
Project type:
Educational Research (part-time for one year)
Project lead:
Dr Emma Keeling - Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (emma.keeling@imperial.ac.uk)
Further details/Experience required
Years 2-5 of MBBS students eligible, 1 student in total, 12 months in length at approx. half a day a week.
Summary
Contributing to the Design Management team behind STEMM Module, to help oversee and support the design of the I-Explore STEMM Modules (a programme comprising of a diverse range of modules designed to provide an opportunity for all undergraduate students in College to broaden their perspective: further info)
Project type
I-Explore
Project lead
Caroline Clewley, I-Explore STEMM Module Stream lead
Further Details/Experience Required
Two students who already have experienced as wide a variety of different learning and teaching methods as possible, so having taken courses outside of their department (such as Imperial Horizons/ BPES) is a plus. For the same reason, 3rd-year students would be preferred (as often teaching methods change between second and third year). Across any Department or Faculty.
Summary
A research project investigating student experiences of learning at university; using digital storytelling methodology to collect students' individual experiences.
Project type
Educational research
Project lead
Dr Monica Pazio, Teaching Fellow in the Educational Development Unit
Further Details/Experience Required
6 students in total, year 2, 3 and 4 students across all departments.
Summary
Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are strong technologies to enforce experiential and explorative 3D learning in the STEM curricula. Literature is becoming available to demonstrate the value of VR and AR in higher education (Luursema, Vorstenbosch et al. 2017, Stepan, Zeiger et al. 2017, Ekstrand, Jamal et al. 2018, Hackett and Proctor 2018, Maresky, Oikonomou et al. 2018).Now that education at Imperial is multi mode, a substantial part of the education is moving online. These immersive technologies like virtual labs help students gain experience even when not at the Imperial Campus.
Project area
Project lead
Thomas Hurkxkens, Digital Learning Hub
Further Details/Experience Required
6 Undergraduate students - already recruited.
Summary
The idea of this project is to research how students use the space, look at other similar spaces around College (particularly where these have recently been updated - for example Blackett Level 1) and in other work environments, and work with staff to come up with a proposal for an effective design which can be implemented within reasonable constraints.
Project area
Space Design
Project lead
Robert Chatley, Deputy Director UG Studies, Computing, and Inkeri Hibbins, Mathematics
Further Details/Experience Required
1 Computing student and 1 Mathematics student, ideally current second year undergraduates.
5 weeks full time at the start of the summer vacation, plus 3-4 hours per week part-time during the last 3 weeks of the summer term
'Huxley Level 3 Foyer' recruitment ad
Summary
Enhancing and developing the Imperial Award platform through designing a proof of concept prototype mobile app. StudentShapers with relevant experience in developing mobile applications are crucial to the success of this project as they will provide both the technical ability and the student perspective required to develop the application. They will work with the staff partners to scope the development app (choosing content and functionality) and will lead on the development of the app itself.
Project area
Curriculum Development
Project leads
Paulina Kristiansson, Imperial Award Manager
Alejandro Luy, Belonging, Engagement & Community Res Officer/ Project lead
Further Details/Experience Required
Three students with mobile app development experience. For ten weeks full-time over the Summer break.
'Imperial Award Proof of concept' recruitment ad