The scheme supports innovative, reasonably short-term projects that promote the University's education strategic objective to improve the quality of the student learning experience.

The Teaching Fellowship Scheme, introduced in 2005, offers four fellowships across the University on an annual basis.

These fellowships are valued at $22,000. The scheme is designed to support the University’s education priorities as identified in the Operational Priorities Plan. The Education strategic objective is to improve the quality of the student learning experience which leads to the following priority objectives:

• to recruit and graduate a diverse student cohort of the highest quality
• to improve the University’s courses
• to extend high-quality teaching approaches and improve learning outcomes
• to further develop the links between teaching, learning and research
• to improve student engagement in a high-quality campus community.

Applications for 2012 are now open, please use the guidelines below to complete the application form. The deadline for applications is midday, Friday 30th March.

Aim

While University priorities have been supported through some centrally-managed schemes (for example, the postgraduate teaching internship scheme, and the Teaching and Learning Development Fund grants to support OBE), the Teaching and Learning Committee seeks to support some more school-and discipline-based work on these priorities.

The scheme has been designed to support innovative, reasonably short-term projects given the timeframe of the fellowships and to encourage projects that impact or could be adopted beyond the individual school/administrative section.

As well as providing an opportunity for the development of individual fellows’ teaching portfolios, the scheme will provide a simple, targeted way of making progress against the University’s education priorities. It will do this by allowing different faculties, schools, disciplines and administrative sections to support these priorities in locally relevant and valuable ways.

The award of four fellowships each year, across the University, will also create greater awareness of the University’s priorities, bring greater understanding about each priority, and increase awareness about effective strategies for their achievement.

Publication of the research undertaken by fellows in national or international journals will provide a tangible outcome that contributes to the broader dissemination of the projects’ outcomes.