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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.

Engaging with Educational research: Five Ideas from the Literature to Improve your Practice (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tierney, A. (2017, November). Engaging with Educational research: Five Ideas from the Literature to Improve your Practice. Presented at University of Aberdeen Teaching Fellow Conference

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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.