Description
The symposium will showcase a successful student engagement initiative at the University of Winchester, the Winchester Research Apprenticeship Programme (WRAP).The active involvement of students in academic research facilitated through WRAP is part of a wider institutional focus on student-engaged educational development.
WRAP is designed to provide an opportunity for Year 2 undergraduate students to work alongside academics on a disciplinary or pedagogic research project, in order to gain first- hand experience of academic research, develop transferable skills, and encourage undergraduates to consider postgraduate education. WRAP also aims to increase staff engagement in research-informed teaching and to strengthen the research culture within the faculties, linking to quality criteria from the TEF (LE2: scholarship, research and professional practice) and the REF (research environment).
Now in its eighth year, WRAP offers a flexible model that has been adapted to the particular needs of each faculty at the university, and could be tailored to fit the various circumstances of other institutions.
Feedback from WRAP students shows that they particularly value the opportunity to develop specific research skills, ahead of the independent research required in their final year projects, as well as transferable skills, and the opportunity for personal development.
| Period | 19 Apr 2018 |
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| Event title | Change Agent Network Conference 2018: Championing Student-Staff Partnerships in an Age of Change |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Winchester, United Kingdom |
| Degree of Recognition | Regional |