Professors Alan Jenkins (Oxford Brookes University) and Mick Healey (University of Gloucestershire) present to the Higher Education Academy All Wales Research-Teaching Nexus Action Set Conference at Gregynog Hall, 1-2 September 2009. Conference convened by Professor Simon Haslett of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at the University of Wales, Newport.

1. Linking research and teaching in Wales: A Swapshop Please sit at tables of three, preferably with people NOT in your institution Appoint one of you as the timekeeper

10. STUDENTS AS PARTICIPANTS EMPHASIS ON RESEARCH CONTENT EMPHASIS ON RESEARCH PROCESSES AND PROBLEMS STUDENTS AS AUDIENCE Research-tutored Research-based Research-led Research-oriented Curriculum design and linking research and teaching

13. Dimensions of undergraduate research and inquiry Student, process centred Outcome, product centred Student initiated Faculty initiated All students Honors students Curriculum based Co-curricular fellowships Collaborative Individual Original to the student Original to the discipline Multi-or interdisciplinary Discipline based Campus/community audience Professional audience Starting year one Capstone/final year Pervades the curriculum Focussed (Source: Adapted from Beckham and Hensel, 2009)

15. Mainstreaming undergraduate research and inquiry: Institutional strategies In groups consider Table 6.1 (pp 80-81) and decide on TWO of the 19 strategies that seem most relevant to your institution Investigate the case studies associated with these strategies and consider how / whether they might be adapted to your institution

21. Linking research and teaching in Wales Developing a strategy for your institution / role