Case studies archive

Linking teaching & research case studies

Editing Lady Hester Pulter - March 2010: As part of a second-year undergraduate module ‘Seventeenth-Century Literature and Culture’, students were asked to annotate a series of unpublished poems by Lady Hester Pulter (1605-1678). The results were displayed on a custom-built website hosted at the University of Warwick.

Enabling Undergraduate Research - In Search of 'The Angel in the House': Women and Domestic Culture in the Nineteenth Century - March 2010: This case study offers an account of a research-based undergraduate option offered in Year 2 at Bath Spa University. The project introduces students to primary research in a number of different settings. The study focuses, in particular, on one strand of the module which supports students in exploring representations of domestic life in literature and print culture in the period.

Scholarship Projects for Undergraduate Researchers (SPUR): The Scholarship Projects for Undergraduate Researchers (SPUR) scheme, at Nottingham Trent University, provides bursaries for undergraduates to work on research projects with academic staff in the summer vacation. This case study describes the work of two students working on different projects.

Make Your Own: Editing a Renaissance Play: This case study describes how students go about preparing an edition of a Renaissance play entirely from scratch for a core module on an MA in English Studies (Renaissance Literature). In the process, they learn about principles of editing, associated theoretical and practical problems, and the protocols and pitfalls of preparing a text.

Awareness into action: linking learning with research in ecolinguistics: This case study describes the close linkages made between teaching and research in the Language and Ecology module at the University of Gloucestershire. As part of the module, students become involved in the international Language & Ecology Research Forum, contributing insights from their own research and reflection at a variety of levels from short comment to full articles.