Denise Mifsud, Department of Education, University of Bath
We are very excited to be sharing news of our first departmental residential writing...read more ❯
Recent posts
SOS: Save Our Spoons – Living and Learning with an Invisible Dis/ability – Part 1
Alice Anderson & Carol A. Taylor, Department of Education, University of Bath
Introduction
We met when Alice was undertaking her final year...read more ❯
Understanding the Social Sciences (My Experiences of Studying Criminology)
Since I was young, the social sciences have always fascinated me, and I knew I had to attend to my burning curiosity for understanding the world on a...read more ❯
Weekly Digest 30/06/2022
NEWS
Finance and funding
Keir Starmer could be planning a move away from his pledge to scrap tuition fees if Labour wins the next general election....read more ❯
Making Curriculum Transformation a reality in Chemical Engineering
We spoke to Professor Marianne Ellis, Head of Department, Professor John Chew, Deputy Head of Department and Professor Tina Düren, Director of...read more ❯
Poetry across time at OCR
Published 6/30/2022 in Bill Scott's blog
The fuss over OCR's decisions about which poets to feature in its English Literature GCSE seems to have died down since I first wrote about it last...read more ❯
Core skills of a personal tutor
I was doing some reading about the qualities and skills needed by Personal Tutors to form effective relationships with their students, and I came...read more ❯
How advertisers can use music to make consumers shop sustainably
Using catchy music to advertise your product is a well-established strategy. But how can marketers ensure that the resulting brand recognition and...read more ❯
Looking for a Placement Abroad
As you may know, placements are very common to do as a University of Bath student - with most undergraduate courses here offering a placement year....read more ❯
Challenging myself with Chinese
Olivia Wolfheart has been taking part in our Mandarin Chinese course as a member of the public since October 2021. In this guest blog, she explains...read more ❯
If I were to start again...(Important things I have learnt this year)
The second year of university has finally come to an end and looking back, I am honestly quite proud of how much I’ve grown compared to my first...read more ❯
How to manage academic perfectionism
The Skills Centre has created a new self-access online resource which explores what academic perfectionism is, how it can negatively impact your...read more ❯
Smoke screens: why streamed content might be a health risk
There are increasingly strict limitations on how and where tobacco companies can advertise and promote their products. It’s concerning, then, that...read more ❯
Parade Profile: Xinmin Han (MA TESOL 2019)
Xinmin Han (MA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages 2019) came to Bath as a postgraduate international student. She now works as an...read more ❯
OCR, Hopkins and the Windhover
Gerard Manley Hopkins has been excluded from the OCR GCSE English Literature list. Happily, Hopkins wrote brilliantly about nature and so is a good...read more ❯
Are universities inhibiting the participatory research process?
As public engagement practitioners we're not often provided with the time and space to be able to reflect on our practices and processes outside of...read more ❯
Campus Pride 2022
On Friday 10 June 2022 students and staff members, in collaboration with Kaleidoscope, hosted the University of Bath’s second ever Campus Pride...read more ❯
Vice Chancellor's Outreach Awards 2022
Congratulations to the winners of the Vice Chancellor's Outreach Awards! In total 29 award nominations were received, and the judging panel had great...read more ❯
DfE puts OCR on the naughty step
It's quite something for a secretary of state for education to accuse an exam board of cultural vandalism, but that happened yesterday when Nadhim...read more ❯
Announcing the winners of the Images of Research 2022 competition
With such a high quality of entries to the Images of Research 2022 competition, the judging panel had a difficult task awarding the prizes in each of...read more ❯