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Kenneth Mavor

New PG CAP

The University has newly introduced a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice as a collaboration between the Proctor’s office and CEED. The program launched this year with two of the core…

HEIR 2021 Success!

St Andrews hosted a very successful higher educational institutional research conference online in September 2021. Over 3 days, over 250 delegates from 13 different countries were engaged in talks, panel…

Higher Ed Institutional Research

One form of higher education research that CHER supports is “institutional research”. Institutional research [IR] brings together academics, professional staff and management in order to support research that supports…

Research Fund Outcomes 2020

In spite of all the uncertainty around the COVID-19 shutdown, we were delighted at the number of applications we received for the Teaching, Learning and Higher Education Research Fund. The…

St Andrews research at HEIR

A range of higher education research at St Andrews is on display this week at the Higher Education Institutional Research (HEIR) conference. Meant to be in Brighton, it is going…

Celebrating CHER outputs

We are constantly updating the research outputs associated with the Centre and we thought it might be interesting to do a word-cloud based on the 194 outputs listed under the…

Student Experience Symposium

The Centre for Higher Education research (CHER) and the Medical Education Research Group (MERG) were delighted to host a symposium on various aspects of enhancing the student experience. The talks…

Joint Physics & Psychology PhD

Physics social identity, the gender gap and approaches to learning A team of researchers in Physics and Psychology were delighted to get approval for St Leonard’s College Interdisciplinary Doctoral Scholarship…

Review of PURE records

Higher education research often only represents a portion of an investigators research activity. Unfortunately the default behaviour in the PURE record system is to attribute any new research output or…

Review of Membership

During 2019 we are conducting a review of the membership of the Centre to ensure that we are an effective network of active researchers in higher education, and that the…