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 UQ Teaching and Learning Strategic Grants – 2008 Winners


We received another very strong and competitive response to the second round funding for UQ Strategic Teaching and Learning Grants. 11 Large Grant and 61 Small Grant proposals received, of which five Large Grant and 30 Small Grant proposals were funded (two large grant proposals were re-submitted and funded as small grants). A wide variety of exciting initiatives were funded from schools across the University.

Congratulations to the following applications and project teams who were successful in receiving funding in the second round:

Round 2 Small Grants 2008

Project Leader

Faculty

Project Title

Funding Approved

Dr Greg Hainge

Arts

Building student engagement, interaction and independent learning through a discipline-based community website: The French @ UQ Learning Community

$13,828

Dr Isolda Rojas-Lizana

Arts

Application of cognitive linguistics and e-learning tool to facilitate language acquisition and performance in advanced Spanish students

$27,115

Mr Gwyn Roberts

Arts

Enhancing musical performance through supported student partnerships

$29,000

Dr Liz MacKinlay

Arts

Teaching, learning and enacting the Education Principles on Indigenous Australian Matters (EPIAM) at the University of Queensland

$29,403

Dr Hardy Ernst

BACS

Enhancing students' learning experience through mLearning; using VOD casts to motivate and engage students

$7,230

Dr Kay Colthorpe

BACS

Enhancing student learning using a scenario-based learning approach to physiology teaching for students of the allied health sciences

$21,576

Dr Terry Tunny

BACS

Does teaching physiology in clinical context via eLearning develop clinical reasoning skills

$23,000

Dr Gwen Lawrie

BACS

Increasing the relevance of first level chemistry through authentic assessment

$27,469

Professor Peter Adams

BACS

Social learning spaces at UQ: The impact of the Science Learning Centre (SLC) and Chemistry Podium on the student and staff experience

$28,318

Dr Kristen Farrand

BACS

Undergraduate students' experience in research (USER) network: bridging the gap between teaching and research in a research intensive university

$30,000

Dr David Morrison

BEL

Student perception of learning enhancement through the applied use of technology

$7,830

Dr David Hamer

BEL

Collaborative online development of legal reasoning skills

$7,860

Dr Larelle Chapple

BEL

Scenario-based learning experience for third year Audit students

$12,430

Mr Carl Sherwood

BEL

Development of online SBLi scenarios for teaching techniques to solve statistical problems in the economic course ECON 1310 Quantitative Economic & Business Analysis A (with possible extension to ECON 1320 - Quantitative Economic & Business Analysis B)

$26,567

Dr Shazia Sadiq

EPSA

Learning Database Management: Engaging students with an e-Learning tool suite and relevant data sets

$30,000

Dr Vaughan Kippers

Health

Enhancing ownership of assessment: Medical students generating questions for their own final examination

$26,500

Professor Helen Chenery

Health

Evaluation of interprofessional learning activities for all students within the Faculty of Health Sciences

$27,402

Dr Bronwyn Davidson

Health

Enhancing practice learning through the appropriation of mobile technologies in a standardised patient program

$27,789

Dr Lynne Emmerton

Health

A pilot project to enhance the communication skills of first-year Pharmacy students

$28,284

Associate Professor Sylvia Rodger

Health

Development of a Practice Education Quality Framework (PEQF) for monitoring student placement quality

$29,155

Ms Louise McCuaig

Health

Enhancing secondary-tertiary transition: A focus on students' experience of tertiary teacher-student pedagogical relationships

$29,401

Professor Jenny Strong

Health

Developing an institutional model of assessment renewal across a multidisciplinary school

$29,754

Dr Louise Gustafsson

Health

Interprofessional education in Neurorehabilitation within the School of health and Rehabilitation Sciences

$29,910

Ms Valerie Powell

NRAVS

The Traffic Light Project

$25,288

Professor Kambiz Maani

NRAVS

Systems thinking and complexity learning labs

$27,490

Dr Viv Perry

NRAVS

Development of online SBLi scenarios for teaching Ruminant Medicine and Production the Veterinary Science course VETS3012 for delivery in the Collaborative Teaching and Learning Centres (CTLC)

$27,640

Dr Victor Galea

NRAVS

Using an Audience Response System (ARS) to support whole class tutorial sessions in first year biology classes - re-defining student learning for the 21st century

$29,903

Dr Jayne Keogh

SBS

Planning and managing a learning circle to support casual academic tutors at UQ

$15,000

Dr Marianne Hanson

SBS

Providing pathways to first year students in international relations and conflict studies for learning options and career planning

$19,904

Dr Diane Hafner

SBS

Integrating Indigenous Australian Knowledge and Perspectives in the Social Work and Human Services Curriculum: Developing strategies for teaching and learning

$21,915

Dr Gai Harrison

SBS

Practice methods in context: a multimedia resource for Social Work and Human Services students

$25,913


Round 2 Large Grants 2008

Project Leader

Faculty

Project Title

Funding Approved

Professor Caroline Crosthwaite

EPSA

Evaluation and Development of the EWB Challenge in ENGG1000

$44,000

Dr Lydia Kavanagh

EPSA

First Year Engineering Competency Testing - Addressing the Changing Cohort

$59,750

Dr Marie-Louise Dick

Health

Vertical integration in teaching and learning (VITAL) in general practice - an innovative collaborative approach to address a growing educational need

$44,971

Dr Fiona Bogossian

Health

Development and implementation of a generic health science professional practice e-portfolio template

$70,000

Associate Professor Julie Duck

SBS

An Institutional Approach to Tutor Training

$109,000