Using Archives for Your Research

Rachel MacGregor, Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick

In this workshop, Rachel MacGregor from the University of Warwick’s Modern Records Centre spoke to our delegates about the various steps of planning a research project, including identifying primary sources in archives, and how to go about doing so efficiently. She shared tips on what to be mindful of when using archives and also answered our delegates' archives questions!

Tuesday 4^th April 4:30pm-5:30pm Oculus Building OC1.04

Thursday 6^th April 9am-10am Oculus Building Room OC1.04

Becoming Innovators: Design Thinking and Innovation in Your Research

Dr. Bo Kelestyn, University of Warwick

Research and innovation are undoubtedly interconnected but can often seem out of reach to many people. Placed on a pedestal, associated with ‘expertise’ or eye-watering budgets, and seemingly excluding groups of certain ages, gender, or class; research and innovation can seem unattainable to many undergraduate researchers. In this workshop, Dr Bo Kelestyn invited the audience to re-think the definitions of research and innovation using the concept of design thinking. Inspired by her own journey at Warwick from student researcher to Associate Professor, Bo shared her expertise in design thinking and innovation to generate a conversation, unravelling of a symbiosis between research and innovation and the tremendous role undergraduate students play in it.

Tuesday 4^th April 4:30pm-5:30pm Oculus Building OC1.01

Thursday 6^th April 9am-10am Oculus Building Room OC1.01

How to Disseminate Your Research and Make an Impact

Aidan Gorman and Dr Julian Ingle, University of Portsmouth

Building on delegates' experience at WorldCUR*BCUR 2023, this workshop explored the value and opportunities that communicating and sharing your research offers. Julian Ingle, Senior Lecturer in Academic Development, and Aidan Gorman, a second year student, both from the University of Portsmouth, discussed ways in which research can be disseminated in a manner that creates impact. Drawing on Aidan's experience of setting up the GorStra Research Group, a pro-bono human rights research group run by volunteer students from around the world, they explored a range of ways to leverage undergraduate research.

Thursday 6^th April 9am-10am Oculus Building Room OC0.04

Engaging the public with research

Helen Luckhurst, Warwick Institute of Engagement, University of Warwick

Helen Luckhurst explored how one can communicate about their research with people outside of academia. Delegates practised some techniques, heard about what other students have done, and left feeling inspired to plan their own activities or projects to engage the public with research.

Wednesday 5^th April 4:30pm-5:30pm Oculus Building OC0.01

Thursday 6^th April 9am-10am Oculus Building Room OC1.09

Writing for Publication: Reinvention

Reinvention Editors, University of Warwick

The Editorial Team at Reinvention: an Undergraduate Journal of Undergraduate Research spoke about why one should consider publishing their work in an academic journal, how it all works, and gain some practical tips for a successful submission.

Tuesday 4^th April 4:30pm – 5:30pm Oculus Building OC1.06

Wednesday 5^th April 4:30pm – 5:30pm Oculus Building OC1.06

Interactive Intercultural Awareness Workshop

Simon Brown and Zi Wang, Student Internationalisation, University of Warwick

This highly interactive workshop offered our student delegates from across the world a chance to interact with each other and explore one another's cultural perspectives, thereby learning to communicate effectively and building lasting relationships at international conferences such as WorldCUR.
Tuesday 4th April 4:30pm – 5:30pm Oculus Building OC1.09

New Opportunities for Undergraduate Education

Presentations on:

CUR and SPUR: Maria Iacullo-Bird, Pace University

Sustaining Undergraduate Research Education During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Institutional Adaptations and Creative Learning Solutions: Maher Khelifa, Qatar University and Jane Bryan, University of Warwick.

A Teaching Tool for Oral Communication Course: Donald Bird, Long Island University.

Wednesday 5th April 4:30pm – 5:30pm Oculus Building OC1.09

Multi-disciplinary Collaborations Among Undergraduate Researchers for Social Action

Gregory Young, Montana State University

Combining undergraduate research activities, which are growing in scope on almost every North American campus, with social action can help address some of the world’s most urgent humanitarian crises. Rather than focusing on research within a specific discipline, we feel that creating a larger, multi-disciplinary community of scholars helps empower students as they collaborate with faculty and fellow students to look for solutions to humanitarian crises.

Wednesday 5^th April 4:30pm – 5:30pm Oculus Building OC1.01

Establishing a Network on Undergraduate Research - European and Non-European Perspectives

Harald Mieg, Humboldt-Universitaet, Berlin, Femi Odebiyi, LCC International, Lithuania, and Susanne Haberstroh, University of Oldenburg, Germany

In the last two years, five European Universities have worked together on the project “A European Network on digital Undergraduate Research”, supported by the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) as an associate partner. One aim of the project was to initiate a European Network on Undergraduate Research, which now needs to grow and to be established.

In this workshop, speakers discussed with faculty, staff and students from European and Non-European Universities their needs, their recommendations, and their ideas… regarding such a network.

Wednesday 5^th April 4:30pm – 5:30pm Oculus Building OC1.04

Promoting Collaborative Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE)

Jane Bryan, University of Warwick and Maher Khelifa, Qatar University

This panel discussed the WorldCUR initial experience of bringing together students from different institutions representing different continents to work collaboratively on a research project on one of the seven themes of the World Congress while guided by a faculty mentor from the University of Warwick. The focus was on student learning, research skill gains, and personal growth from this CURE.

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Degrees for learning or earning? A teaching tool to support students to balance their identities as educational consumers and learners

Louise Taylor, Oxford Brookes University

Student inclusion and engagement may be compromised if students have a weak identity as a learner or strong identity as an educational consumer. In this session, Louise presented a new curriculum resource, developed from psychological research, in the form of a workshop that educators can run with students (see www.brookes.ac.uk/SIIP ).

Thursday 6^th April 9:00am-10:00am Oculus Building, OC0.01