PhD: ‘Biological Literacy’: From Signature Pedagogies to Laboratory Simulation.

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Company: University of Surrey

Department: School of Bioscience and Medicine

Hours: Full Time

Type / Role: PhD

Phone: +44-1538 4110504

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Supervisor name:

Dr Ian BaileyDr Naomi Winstone

Funding: Directly Funded Project (European/UK Students only)

This project is a collaboration between the Biochemistry Teaching team and Department of Higher Education at the University of Surrey.

A fully funded and exciting opportunity has arisen within the School of Bioscience and Medicine to undertake some cross-disciplinary pedagogic research, under the supervision of Dr Ian Bailey, Dr Naomi Winstone and Dr Alfred Thumser. The project will centre on the construction of a comprehensive description of “biological Literacy for the biochemical sciences” and will test the efficacy of new and emerging pedagogies on student learning, including virtual laboratory simulation software.

The biochemical sciences include biochemistry, pharmacology, physiology, toxicology, molecular biology and others and are a cohesive set of disciplines evolving from common core and foundational concepts. The successful student will utilise previous work around these core and foundational concepts to construct a detailed framework of pedagogies which constitute a literacy in the biochemical sciences. A major constituent of this project will be an evaluation of key skills, and how these may be most effectively communicated and learned. Of particular interest are practical laboratory skills and how virtual laboratory software can assist in the development of “wet-lab” competencies.

There is a plan for publication throughout this project and the student will be encouraged to attend pedagogic conferences and workshops, and will have the opportunity to gain teaching experience through helping to run workshops with the rest of the Biochemistry teaching team. The successful student will have full access to support from other PhD students undertaking pedagogic research and will join Dr Winstone’s broader research group for lab meetings. 

Over three years, the School will support (subject to inflationary increases in stipend and tuition fees):

Stipend: £14,296 paTuition Fees (home/EU only): £4,120 paMiscellaneous Costs: £2,000 pa

Applicants should possess a good Batchelor’s degree (1st class or upper second class) in bioscience, psychology, sociology, education or related discipline from a UK University, and it is desirable (but not essential) that the student has completed, or is working towards completion, of a Masters level qualification.

For enquiries and for details of how to apply:

Dr Ian [email protected]

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