CIRTL supports staff and students who are engaged in teaching and demonstrates academic leadership in the scholarship of teaching and learning. In UCC that academic leadership includes an ambition for further embedding civic and community engagement in the curriculum. Read more about the benefits, rationale and policy imperative in the Why Get Engaged section. The…

Chaired by National Forum board member Lewis Purser (Director, Learning & Teaching and Academic Affairs, at the IUA), the first Scholarship Hour will open with National Forum Teaching and Learning Research Fellow, Associate Professor Geraldine O’Neill (UCD), sharing her initial findings from her research into Work-based Assessment: Exploring Barriers and Solutions to an Emerging Assessment…

Following on from the success of the inaugural MIE Virtual International Winter School in 2020, the VIT&L Week Virtual International Winter School will celebrate teaching and learning in Ireland and around the globe. Contributions from Irish and international guest speakers during the five day Winter School will afford participants an opportunity to engage with topics such as…

Dr. Michael Francis Ryan, - TUS Department of Quality, Teaching and Learning will provide a summary of a recent report on Students' perception of excellent teaching in HE Focus of the event Strategic institutional discussions about the place of teaching and learning within local policy and decision-making and how the value of teaching and learning…

The PaPOR TRaIL project aimed to develop an open education resource (OER) on Open Research for undergraduate and Masters level students. The project involved engaging with students and supervisors to develop the openly accessible PaPOR TRaIL course, which covers both what open research is and how to do it. PaPOR TRaIL is the first open…

This workshop will feature the following panel members who will field questions related to the role of higher education in supporting and leading the transit towards a more ‘sustainable’ society: Dr. Orla Flynn (GMIT President), Dr. Brendan McCormack (IT Sligo President), Paul Hannigan (LKIT President), Professor John O’Halloran (UCC President), Jennifer Boyer (VP for Sustainability,…

Dr Pat Henn of the ASSERT Centre, UCC offers attendees an opportunity to review a surgical and clinical skills training centre. Focus of event: tour of ASSERT centre Registration https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/vital-week-virtual-tour-of-the-assert-center-university-college-cork-tickets-200610510437?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Despite the socio-legal changes that have signalled greater acceptance of sexual diversity and gender expansive identities in the 21st century, worldwide studies highlight the enduring targeting of those with a sexual and/or gender minority status. Even with the constitutional and legislative changes since 2015 (marriage equality and gender recognition), LGBT+ youth face a myriad of…