Projects

Linking Teaching & Research

Dramatising Slavery & Emancipating Students: Learning Beyond the Classroom (CILASS - University of Central Lancashire): Students researched historical characters involved in the transatlantic slave trade—including both perpetrators & victims – to provide materials for a dramatic tableau to be made freely available online as a pedagogical resource. The students developed the material through field trips to museums and historical sites, meetings with local historians, archivists and curators. The completed tableau was performed at a dissemination event.
Project completed: April 2010; Tags: Linking teaching & research

Shakespeare and the Bridewell Archives (CILASS - Chichester): This project involved the design of a module for students to study Shakespeare by means of independent research with the Elizabethan archives of the Bridewell Hospital held at the Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum, Beckenham, Kent. Students encountered a vast store of memorable historical cases and actively (in groups of four) linked these cases to Shakesepare plays.; Project completed: April 2010; Tags: Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, Linking teaching & research, CILASS, Inquiry-based learning

Inquiry-Based Learning Design and Literary Studies (CILASS - Aberystwyth): This project developed and disseminated a practical methodology for IBL in English Studies. The project leaders designed a Level 2 option module requiring students to select primary texts, compile bibliographic materials, identify research questions, and determine their own themes, topics, and assessment activities.; Project completed: April 2010; Tags: General Curriculum issues, Linking teaching & research, Inquiry-based learning

King's College/ Globe Theatre Text & Playhouse MA - A Case Study: The English Subject Centre has conducted a Case Study of the Shakespeare Studies MA programme, Text and Playhouse, taught jointly by King’s College and the Globe Theatre as its contribution to the Generic Centre’s initiative to illustrate the link between teaching and research across several disciplines.; Project completed: September 2003; Tags: Linking teaching & research, Dramatic arts