An A to Z of Research Skills has been compiled by the Centre's Academic Co-ordinator at Brookes to help undergraduate researchers understand some of the key concepts they need to be familiar with when producing research.

The A to Z is very much 'work in progress' and any suggested amendments or additions would be very welcome from students or from staff.  Please email Pete Smith at prsmith at brookes dot ac dot uk

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Dr Helen Walkington, Principal Lecturer in Geography at Oxford Brookes University, has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship for her undergraduate research initiatives, which are supported by her Academic Fellowship funding from the Reinvention Centre.

Two students who recently graduated from Warwick Medical School, Tim Williamson and Sarah Spencer,  have received the School's annual Pridgeon Gold Medal for Research.  This was awarded partly for their work on 'Serious Gaming', a research project supported by a Small Grants Fund award from the Reinvention Centre, and partly for presenting the findings of this research at the 2008 Learning Through Enquiry Alliance (LTEA) Conference in Sheffield and for being members of the Centre's Management Committee at Warwick.  They also conducted an international systematic review of medical education.

 

Tim and Sarah with Dr Pridgeon

 

Sarah and Tim with Prof. Martin Underwood, Acting Dean of WMS

We are seeking up to 4 undergraduate students who would like the opportunity to work over the summer as part of a research team carrying out documentary analysis for the early stages of a new project that the Centre is involved with.  The deadline for applications is Friday 26 June 2009.

Further information

Application form

Volume 2, Issue 1 of our undergraduate journal was published on 30 April.

The contents of this issue are as follows:

• Editorial: The Importance of Great Expectations
• Breaking Barriers in Clinical Communication: Are Securely Attached Doctors More Empathetic Doctors?
• Photonic Dipole Contours of Ferrofluid Hele-Shaw Cell
• Gender Roles and Sexual Politics in Hollywood Action Movie Cycles of the 1980s and 1990s
• µCell - Interdisciplinary Research in Modelling and Simulation of Cell Spatial Behaviour
• Struggling to Take Root: The Work of the Electro-Culture Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries between 1918 and 1936 and its Fight for Acceptance
• Dissolution Kinetics of Scolecite in Alkaline Environment