The first strategic partnership with Charles University Education Faculty started from contact at a conference between Kateřina Machovcová and Ken Mavor. The initial project was “Learning strategies in the context…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Prof. Dilly Fung gave a fascinating talk on her work on the Connected Curriculum as part of the launch of the new St Andrews Teaching and Learning Initiative (SALTI) on…