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mple profiles of those working towards recognition:
PhD Student working towards D1
I am a PhD student working as a GTA and I help to support one of our core courses to first year
undergraduates. I have been involved in tutoring some small groups of students in a problem class and
demonstrating in the practicals, which I have found really rewarding. It feels very different moving from
being a student to a teacher, but I enjoy this aspect of my role. I have attended some faculty specific training
in addition to workshops provided by the Graduate School and the EDU which covered effective teaching
and assessment skills. I am keen to further develop my teaching skills alongside my research work and I am
particularly interested in the potential offered by learning technology.
Supporting Learning and Teaching Staff working towards D1
I work as a laboratory technician and I support my fellow technicians, researchers and students with all
experimental matters. I instruct people on the correct use of specialist laboratory equipment and give
inductions to new staff into the safe use of our laboratory spaces. My training work varies greatly in
frequency and can be one-to-one or with groups of up to 30 students. I have recently completed the EDU’s
Supporting Learning and Teaching Pathway (SLTP) and I am registered to attend the EDU workshop
‘Communicating Knowledge’ as I enjoy my demonstrating work and feel it is important to my role to be as
good at this as I can be.
Clinician working towards D1
I am a Core Medical Trainee working at a teaching hospital and am involved in opportunistic teaching of
third and fifth year medical students who are completing their attachment with us. I deliver some bedside
teaching and also run some lunchtime seminars for students during their three week attachment. I
encourage students to take histories from patients and then present these to me in order that I can give
them some verbal feedback on how they could improve on this and make it more effective. I have also been
involved in running some mock OSCE stations for students and have given them feedback on aspects of their
practice that they would need to develop. I recently attended a one day workshop on clinical teaching and
would be keen to get involved in more formal teaching at the medical school.
Lecturer working towards D2
I am a lecturer at Imperial, I am predominantly involved in research but I also teacher a number of topics on
three undergraduate courses and a Master’s course related to my research area. I also design the final
assessment and play a part in aligning the various aspects of one of the undergraduate courses that I teach
on. In addition to the mandatory provision required as part of my probation, I have attended a number of
teaching workshops provided by the EDU and participated fully in Faculty training. . Given that I am part of
the team that writes examination questions, I attended an EDU workshop on setting and marking
assessment which I found helped me to better understand how to align questions with the intended course
learning outcomes. I would like to develop my teaching further and have enquired about the EDU’s PGCert in
University Learning and Teaching; I think this might help my teaching and could be a useful qualification and
be the easiest way for me to gain HEA fellowship.
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PhD Student working towards D1
I am a PhD student working as a GTA and I help to support one of our core courses to first year
undergraduates. I have been involved in tutoring some small groups of students in a problem class and
demonstrating in the practicals, which I have found really rewarding. It feels very different moving from
being a student to a teacher, but I enjoy this aspect of my role. I have attended some faculty specific training
in addition to workshops provided by the Graduate School and the EDU which covered effective teaching
and assessment skills. I am keen to further develop my teaching skills alongside my research work and I am
particularly interested in the potential offered by learning technology.
Supporting Learning and Teaching Staff working towards D1
I work as a laboratory technician and I support my fellow technicians, researchers and students with all
experimental matters. I instruct people on the correct use of specialist laboratory equipment and give
inductions to new staff into the safe use of our laboratory spaces. My training work varies greatly in
frequency and can be one-to-one or with groups of up to 30 students. I have recently completed the EDU’s
Supporting Learning and Teaching Pathway (SLTP) and I am registered to attend the EDU workshop
‘Communicating Knowledge’ as I enjoy my demonstrating work and feel it is important to my role to be as
good at this as I can be.
Clinician working towards D1
I am a Core Medical Trainee working at a teaching hospital and am involved in opportunistic teaching of
third and fifth year medical students who are completing their attachment with us. I deliver some bedside
teaching and also run some lunchtime seminars for students during their three week attachment. I
encourage students to take histories from patients and then present these to me in order that I can give
them some verbal feedback on how they could improve on this and make it more effective. I have also been
involved in running some mock OSCE stations for students and have given them feedback on aspects of their
practice that they would need to develop. I recently attended a one day workshop on clinical teaching and
would be keen to get involved in more formal teaching at the medical school.
Lecturer working towards D2
I am a lecturer at Imperial, I am predominantly involved in research but I also teacher a number of topics on
three undergraduate courses and a Master’s course related to my research area. I also design the final
assessment and play a part in aligning the various aspects of one of the undergraduate courses that I teach
on. In addition to the mandatory provision required as part of my probation, I have attended a number of
teaching workshops provided by the EDU and participated fully in Faculty training. . Given that I am part of
the team that writes examination questions, I attended an EDU workshop on setting and marking
assessment which I found helped me to better understand how to align questions with the intended course
learning outcomes. I would like to develop my teaching further and have enquired about the EDU’s PGCert in
University Learning and Teaching; I think this might help my teaching and could be a useful qualification and
be the easiest way for me to gain HEA fellowship.
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