Undergraduate Research

About the Project

Aim of Project

The aim of the project is to provide HEIs and other stakeholders with a review and a sector analysis alongside multiple case studies on undergraduate research. More detail is available in the summary of the Project Bid Summary and in the presentation to the Higher Education Academy NTFS Project conference in York.

The Project Team

The project will be managed and led by a project team, augmented by an evaluation coordinator, and guided by an international advisory panel:

i)   Project Team: an established and experienced multidisciplinary team that includes members of the University’s Senior Management Group and the Chairs of the University’s teaching & learning and research committees.

• Professor Peter Childs (NTF 2004) and Professor Mick Healey (NTF 2000) Project Directors
• Wendelin Romer, Project Research Assistant 
• Dr Kenneth Lynch (NTF 2004)
• Professor Lindsey McEwen
• Professor Kris Mason O’Connor (NTF nominated 2007)
• Professor Carolyn Roberts (NTF 2006)
• Christopher Short

ii)   Evaluator: Dr Phil Gravestock (NTF 2005), Head of UoG’s Centre for Learning & Teaching and an experienced project evaluator.

iii)  International Advisory Panel: The following individuals have all taken a prominent role in the development of undergraduate research and/or academic leadership.  They have been influential in our project’s design and will act as external critical friends.

Dr Angela Brew, Associate Professor, Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Sydney, Australia
Dr Nancy Hensel, Executive Director, Council for Undergraduate Research, US
Dr Mary Huber, Senior Scholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, US
Professor Alan Jenkins, Reinvention Fellow and Consultant to HE Academy, UK
Professor Stephanie Marshall, Director Programme Development, Leadership Foundation, UK
Dr Elaine Seymour, Director of Ethnography & Evaluative Research, University of Colorado at Boulder, US

Related Undergraduate Research Projects

As well, as working with the international advisors and their organisations, this project has links to some of the many organisations working in this area. There are some links to them in this Undergraduate Research Links page.