Just because we can't hold Research Refresh in the Wolfson Research Exchange at the moment doesn’t mean we can’t still have a chat over coffee and cake!

Join us on Microsoft Teams for a virtual coffee break! We'll be chatting about the best ways to work from home, and how to stay productive and get research and writing done in the current situation - plus it's a great way for you to keep in touch with other REx regulars!

Reflective practice, analytical reflection and (particularly) reflexivity, are generally recognised as the core characteristics of research and teaching practice. Reflective Practice can enable practitioners to learn from the experience of themselves, their work, and how they relate to home and work, significant others and wider society and culture. Reflection involves reliving and recurring: who said and did what, how, when, where, and why. Reflection may lead to insight into something that has not been noticed in time, perhaps pointing out when the detail has been missed.

Reflexivity is a strategy to question our own attitudes, thought processes, values, assumptions, prejudices and habitual actions, to try to understand our complex roles in relation to others. Reflexivity involves thinking from within experiences ‘turned or reflected back upon the mind itself’. Reflective practice and reflexivity are therefore a valuable developmental process for any professional or researcher.

In this session, we will examine key features of reflection, introduce a number of models of reflective practice (such as the Gibbs model), understand how reflective practice can help you learn and what tools you can use to support reflective learning. In addition, we are going to cover how to be reflexive and how mindfulness can help you to achieve better reflexivity. Lastly, to be reflective and reflexive practitioner it is crucial to practice this skill. Therefore, all PGRS will have a chance to put in the practice their reflectivity and reflexivity.

Ready to scavenge? Want to touch base with other PGRs? Find out more and book on SkillsForge tinyurl.com/y6coud4n to join us on the 13th August Places are limited so book now!