Collaborative Enhancement Projects offer a fantastic opportunity for higher education providers to work together to explore areas of shared interest and engage students. Each project will also lead to the development of outputs that not only benefit the partners directly involved but also support the wider QAA membership and higher education sector.
This year the full suite of funded projects includes one led by a QAA International Member. We’re pleased to include our international members in the enhancement project approach, providing a focused way for UK and international providers to network around topics of mutual interest.
The response to our call for expressions of interest was very positive, building on previous years, with 65 individual project proposals received.
These new projects, each led by a QAA member, involve 70 partners from across the sector, including UK higher education institutions, colleges, independent providers, international universities, and Students’ Unions.
We will be sharing more information on these projects, including the outputs they will produce, in the new year. For now, we are pleased to announce the full list of participating institutions and their chosen areas of work.
| Project title | Lead institution and project partners |
|---|---|
| Evaluating the impact of block delivery | De Montfort University (Lead institution) Manchester Metropolitan University University of Gloucestershire University of Plymouth University of Suffolk Victoria University, Australia |
| Incorporating experiential learning fully into STEM education: A toolkit for enriching the student experience | University of Warwick (Lead institution) Aston University Glasgow Caledonian University University of Strathclyde |
| Harnessing multimodality in higher education: Principles for new learning, teaching and assessment | Teesside University (Lead institution) Birmingham City University University of Greenwich Anglia Ruskin University |
| Embedding multiple disciplinary affiliation identities in shared modules to enhance curriculum design | University of Greenwich (Lead institution) Royal Holloway, University of London University of Lincoln |
| Generating a competence-based education framework | University of Hull (Lead institution) Oxford Brookes University University of Cambridge Bishop Burton College Hull University Students’ Union |
| Optionality in assessment | University of Manchester (Lead institution) Imperial College London University of York University College London |
| Evolving the current inclusive curriculum discussion to make employability development intrinsic to good quality teaching and learning | University of London (Lead institution) City, University of London King’s College London Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Student Intrapreneur and Entrepreneur Toolkit and Community of Practice | Liverpool John Moores University (Lead institution) University of Chester Oxford Brookes University |
| Enhancing learning and teaching quality through collaborative observation | Birmingham City University (Lead institution) Loughborough University University of Wolverhampton |
| How are staff supported to undertake student-staff partnership opportunities? | University of Sussex (Lead institution) University of Salford University of Brighton University College London |
| When quality assurance meets innovation in higher education | New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (Lead institution) |
| Exploring Evaluation Wicked Issues with the HE Sector | Sheffield Hallam University (Lead institution) University of Sussex University of Reading Staffordshire University University of Lincoln |
| Developing a pilot peer evaluation system | University of Bath (Lead institution) University of Kent University of Derby University of East Anglia London School of Economics Bath Spa University Sheffield Hallam University |
| The Learning Together Project: Developing cross-institutional evaluation of inclusive learning, teaching and assessment | University of Newcastle (Lead institution) University of Exeter Lancaster University University of Leeds University of Manchester University of Sheffield University of York |
| Accounting for student success: Measuring educational gain | Imperial College London (Lead institution) Imperial College Students Union University of Exeter University of Portsmouth Bath Spa University Open University University of Cambridge University of Warwick University of East Anglia University of Plymouth Liverpool John Moores University London School of Economics and Political Science University of Manchester |
| Developing Patient Consultation Observed Structured Clinical Examination for evaluating cultural sensitivity competences in pharmacy Students | Gulf Medical University (Lead institution) University of Bradford The University of the West Indies |
To find out more about the current projects and those that have already completed, visit our Collaborative Enhancement Projects web page. Here you can select the topics you are interested in or search for a project lead via the interactive map.