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Investigating support for scholarship of teaching and learning; we need SoTL educational leaders (2019)
Journal Article
Webb, A. S., & Tierney, A. M. (2020). Investigating support for scholarship of teaching and learning; we need SoTL educational leaders. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 57(5), 613-624. https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2019.1635905

In this paper, we focus on the experience of faculty learning to do the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Our two studies uncovered similar threshold concepts in SoTL in two contrasting contexts; one study done in the United Kingdom with t... Read More about Investigating support for scholarship of teaching and learning; we need SoTL educational leaders.

Learning by design: 2018 OUP Bioscience Education Summit (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tierney, A., & McQueen, H. (2019). Learning by design: 2018 OUP Bioscience Education Summit.

Learning by Design’ was the theme of the 2018 OUP Bioscience Education Summit. There were forty-eight delegates from 20 different UK HE institutes in attendance, representing a wide range of biology specialisms and roles. The meeting was held over... Read More about Learning by design: 2018 OUP Bioscience Education Summit.

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Pedagogic Research within the Disciplines: Should it be Included in the Research Excellence Framework? (2019)
Journal Article
Tierney, A. (2020). The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Pedagogic Research within the Disciplines: Should it be Included in the Research Excellence Framework?. Studies in Higher Education, 45(1), 176-186. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2019.157

This paper is a response to Cotton, Miller and Kneale’s 2017 paper on the current state of higher education research within UK universities. It seeks to contribute to the debate surrounding inclusion of pedagogic research (PedR) via SoTL in the UK’s... Read More about The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Pedagogic Research within the Disciplines: Should it be Included in the Research Excellence Framework?.

Belonging to a learning community: staff perspectives. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ennis, L., Tierney, A., Lucas, L., Logan, P., & Wright, G. (2018, October). Belonging to a learning community: staff perspectives. Presented at Evidence for Enhancement: The Challenge of Community and Belonging

The Faculty Learning Community (FLC) at Edinburgh Napier University is based on the Miami model developed by Milton D. Cox and seeks to explore the ways in which staff support each other throughout the institution. This formal, time-bound and selecti... Read More about Belonging to a learning community: staff perspectives..

The scholarship of teaching and learning is thriving. (2018)
Newspaper / Magazine
Tierney, A. (2018). The scholarship of teaching and learning is thriving

In response to Richard Arum’s charge that higher education research is failing to sufficiently investigate university teaching, Anne Tierney gives concrete examples of the contrary.

Opportunities for Brokering between Teaching-Focused and Research-Focused UK Life Science Academics (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tierney, A. (2017, December). Opportunities for Brokering between Teaching-Focused and Research-Focused UK Life Science Academics. Paper presented at Society for Research into Higher Education Annual Research Conference

Life Sciences teaching-focused academics working in UK universities have been an expanding and emergent group in the past two decades. However, despite their successes in supporting and innovation in Life Sciences higher education, there is an anxiet... Read More about Opportunities for Brokering between Teaching-Focused and Research-Focused UK Life Science Academics.

Threshold Concepts in Academic Practice: Engagement with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (2017)
Journal Article
Tierney, A. (2017). Threshold Concepts in Academic Practice: Engagement with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Practice and evidence of the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education, 12(2), 165-184

This paper investigates the existence and nature of threshold concepts as experienced by a group of twenty-one teaching-focused academics, from life science departments in UK universities. Individuals were invited to take part in the study and asked... Read More about Threshold Concepts in Academic Practice: Engagement with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

"More than just a Teaching Fellow": The Impact of REF and implications of TEF on Life Science Teaching-Focused Academics in UK HEIs (2016)
Thesis
Tierney, A. "More than just a Teaching Fellow": The Impact of REF and implications of TEF on Life Science Teaching-Focused Academics in UK HEIs. (Thesis). Durham University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1652776

This study seeks to understand the effect of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) on Teaching-Focused Academics working in Life Sciences in UK higher education institutions. Twenty-one full-time Teaching-Focused Academics from England, Scotland an... Read More about "More than just a Teaching Fellow": The Impact of REF and implications of TEF on Life Science Teaching-Focused Academics in UK HEIs.

Brokering between communities of practice: strenghening learning with co-operative practices (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tierney, A. (2016, July). Brokering between communities of practice: strenghening learning with co-operative practices. Paper presented at Improving Univesity Teaching

There is a growing trend in Higher Education to separate researchers' and teachers' roles. In the UK, pressure for this comes from the Research Excellence Framework, which demands world class research in return for government funding. An unintended c... Read More about Brokering between communities of practice: strenghening learning with co-operative practices.