Katherine Bourne
Uwe boxed: Empowering students in the ‘real world’-providing responsible research and innovation opportunities through the boxed project
Bourne, Katherine; Wilkinson, Clare; Bancroft, Mandy; Robinson, Gareth; Noel, Catherine; Varadi, Aniko; Watson, Melanie; Foster, Maxine; Lewis, Debbie
Authors
Clare Wilkinson Clare.Wilkinson@uwe.ac.uk
Professor in Science Communication
Amanda Bancroft Mandy.Bancroft@uwe.ac.uk
Faculty Academic Director for Widening Participation
Gareth Robinson
Catherine Noel
Aniko Varadi Aniko.Varadi@uwe.ac.uk
Professor in Biomedical Research
Melanie Watson
Maxine Foster
Debbie Lewis
Abstract
© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences at the University of the West of England, Bristol has been piloting a schools outreach project entitled BoxED (EDucation in a Box) since 2015. School activities are inspired from the research and teaching of our academics, and the BoxED team have developed a series of hour long activities, linked to the national curriculum, which are delivered in schools across the south-west region. Alongside the somewhat obvious benefits to school pupils, this project presents numerous opportunities and benefits for our students to develop ‘real-world’ skills, enabling them to successfully enter the employment market on graduating from their studies. The challenge now is to ensure the success can be built upon by securing future funding to enable a greater number of students the opportunity to engage with the project and they themselves to then develop those necessary enterprise and entrepreneurial skills appropriately, alongside their chosen subject of study-ready for the ‘real-world’.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Feb 9, 2018 |
Online Publication Date | Oct 12, 2018 |
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Mar 5, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 29, 2018 |
Journal | Higher Education Pedagogies |
Print ISSN | 2375-2696 |
Electronic ISSN | 2375-2696 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 3 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 451-462 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/23752696.2018.1462098 |
Keywords | outreach, employment, STEM, students, engagement, research |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/857756 |
Publisher URL | https://doi.org/10.1080/23752696.2018.1462098 |
Contract Date | Mar 5, 2018 |
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