Poster 1: Building Future Engineers with LEGO Greg Burgess (University of Glasgow, UK) This LEGO Hydrogen Project was both exciting and deeply rewarding. The initiative was designed to support international PGT students—particularly those new to the College of Science and Engineering—in developing their communication and confidence. Collaborating with Dr Euan McGookin from the James Watt […]
Poster 2: Navigating Meaningful, Authentic Learning through Partnership-Driven Pedagogies and Cross-Sector Collaboration Benjamin Chong (University of Leeds, UK) This poster presents an interactive timeline demonstrating how my partnership‑driven teaching evolves into an authentic and socially-engaged model of learning. It illustrates how design thinking, reflective practice, and justice‑oriented approaches concretely shape activities, co‑developed with external partners, […]
Poster 3: Running through the Culture: A Gamified Approach to Promoting Cultural Awareness through “Watt a Race.” Rohaya binti Daud (Heriot-Watt University, Malaysia) This poster presents “Watt A Race,” a gamified, experiential learning activity designed to promote cultural understanding through interactive and team-based challenges. It outlines the design, structure, and implementation of the activity. “Watt […]
Poster 4: Active Learning Artifacts as Catalysts for Peer Interaction and Classroom Community: A Case Study Kevin Dietsche (University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA) Active learning approaches such as peer instruction and collaborative making are known to enhance engagement, yet their role in fostering classroom community is less frequently examined. This poster explores how student-created artifacts—projects students […]
Poster 5: What Makes Simulation-Based Learning Meaningful in Teacher Education? Haled El-Said (Kaye Academic College of Education, Israel) Simulation-based learning is widely used in teacher education, yet the conditions that make it meaningful remain underexplored. This qualitative phenomenological study examines the experiences of 15 pre-service teachers from Bedouin-Arab and Jewish communities in Israel. Data were […]
Poster 6: Scaling Student-Staff Partnership for Institutional Curriculum Transformation: The University of Leicester’s Research-Inspired Education Project Sarah Gretton (University of Leicester, UK) The Research-Inspired Education (RiE) project at the University of Leicester is a pioneering, university-wide effort to embed research-led learning into all academic programmes. By involving students as genuine partners in curriculum development, RiE […]
Poster 7: The Effect of a SEL Intervention Program on Emotional Regulation for Preservice Teachers Stella Gidalevich & Ella Mirkin (Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel) This study’s aim was to examine the influence of a unique intervention focused on emotional regulation, an important component of SEL. Seventy-two third-year preservice teachers participated for one year, […]
Poster 8: Scaffolded Electronics Design Studio: Reporting, Soldering, Simulation and Bilingual First-Year Success Sami Haider (Heriot-Watt University, UK) First-year electronics students frequently encounter simultaneous challenges, mastering technical principles, engaging in laboratory practice, producing academic writing and utilising specialised software pressures intensified for bilingual groups studying in English. I restructured a Praxis Electronics Design module into […]
Poster 9: The ABDN Internships: Fostering Belonging and Future Prospects through Work Experience Regina Jaschke (University of Aberdeen, UK) The ABDN internships are a highly successful programme of work experience available exclusively to University of Aberdeen students. Student engagement has been fantastic with almost 5,000 applications in the last two years and data by academic […]
Poster 10: Leveraging Scholar Transformation Theory to Engage Doctoral Students in Becoming Scholars Peggy Kerr (Gwynedd Mercy University, USA) This poster explains how doctoral students are supported in working through the initial stages of Scholar Transformation Theory (Welsh et al., 2020) in a course called Grounding Research in Literature. Each of the stages of the […]
