Research Projects

Current and recent funded projects (2008-12):

Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment Research Network

• Global Citizenship in primary schools, Department for International Development (DfID), (2010-2013) £30,000. Project team: Prof David Miller (PI), Peter Wakefield, Teresa Moran.
• Game-based learning in primary schools: 'The Nintendogs Project', Learning and Teaching Scotland, (2010), £30,000. Project team: Prof David Miller (PI), Alison Hudson, Jill Shimi, Anne Miller.
• 'The Guitar Hero Project'. Learning and Teaching Scotland, (2010), £29,000, Project team: Prof Divya Jindal-Snape (PI), Prof David Miller.
• Game-based leaning: 'The Nintendo project'. Learning and Teaching Scotland. (2009), £3,700, Prof David Miller.
• Evaluation of 'The Dhaka to Dundee Project', One World Centre, (2009), £1,200, Prof David Miller.
• An investigation into the links between formative assessment and 'A Curriculum for Excellence'. LTS/SEED, (2008), £15,000, Project team: Prof David Miller, Prof Susan Rodrigues, Fiona Lavin (Co-investigators).

Further information about the Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment Research Network.

eLearning Research Network

• eLene2Learn - Exploring and Promoting the Contribution of ICT and Digital Media to the Development of Learning, EC Education Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency, (2011-14), £56,787, Project Team: Dr Alison Hudson (PI), Teresa Moran, Neil Taylor (Website: http://www.elene2learn.eu/)
• Research Collaboration in ICT and Learning with Umeå University, Department of Applied Educational Science, (2009-12), £30,000, Dr Brian Hudson (PI).
• Evaluating Feedback for e-learning: Centralised Tutors (EFFECT), Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Assessment and Feedback Programme, (2011-12), £12,979, Dr Aileen McGuigan (PI).

Further information about the eLearning Research Network.

Health Professional Education Research Network

• Medical Directorate - Medical Education Research Programme, NHS Education for Scotland, (2011-14), £450,000. CE Rees (PI), C McCowan, F Sullivan, B Guthrie, J Ker, J Cleland, J Morrison, J Dowell, G Mires.
• Interactive Assessment and Collaboration Using Technology (InterACT): Promoting feedback dialogue in a medical education online distance learning programme, Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (2011-13), £125,021. Project team: Dr Rola Ajjawi (PI), Dr Susie Schofield, Dr Sean McAleer, Dr David Walker, Dr Lorraine Walsh, Karen Barton, Grant Murray (Website: https://blog.dundee.ac.uk/interact)
• Tender for UKCAT Research database management system, UKCAT, (2011-13), £91,000. Project team: D Heather (PI), A Bell, CE Rees, B Guthrie, F Sullivan.
• Tayside In-Practice Portfolio - Undergraduate Performance: a research pilot to quality assure student feedback and systems of assessment, NHS Education for Scotland Additional Cost of Teaching, (2010-13) £381,000. Project team: D Murphy (PI), B Guthrie, CE Rees.
• By junior doctors, for junior doctors: a project to develop educational interventions to support junior doctors' antimicrobial prescribing, British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, (2011-12), £25,000. Project team: K Mattick (PI), CE Rees, T Johnston, L Harrower, D Bristow.
• Dental, nursing, pharmacy and physiotherapy students' professionalism dilemmas: A UK questionnaire survey, Higher Education Academy, (2011-12), £5,000. Project team: CE Rees (PI), LV Monrouxe.
• Enhancing professionalism: analysing medical students' narratives of professionalism dilemmas. NHS Education for Scotland (NES) Additional Cost of Teaching (ACT) Education Vacation Scholarship Programme, (2011) , £1,000. Project team: CE Rees (PI).
• Medical students' professionalism dilemmas: A UK questionnaire study, ASME Small Grant Scheme, (2010-11), £2,000. Project team: LV Monrouxe (PI), CE Rees.
• Professionalism dilemmas in work-based learning: the personal incident narratives of dental, nursing, pharmacy and physiotherapy students, Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Health Sciences and Practice, (2010), £5,000. Project team: LV Monrouxe (PI), CE Rees.

Professionalism and Professional Learning Research Network

• New Directions for Work in Digital Scotland, Scottish Universities Insight Institute (2011-12), £20,000, Dr Irene Malcolm (PI)

STEM Education Research Network

• Developing Mathematical Thinking in the Primary Classroom, Scottish Government (2010-12), £46,331, Project Team: Prof Brian Hudson (PI), Dr Sheila Henderson and Dr Alison Hudson (Website: https://blog.dundee.ac.uk/mathematical-thinking/)

Further information about the STEM Education Research Network.

Transformative Change: Educational and Life Transitions (TCELT) Research Network

• Transitions in Personal Development, Scottish Funding Council (2012), £4965, Regan Shaw (PI).
• Youth workers as role models for young people, YouthLink Scotland (2012), £1934, Prof Divya Jindal-Snape (PI).
• International students' transitions, University of Surrey on a research project (2011), £1600, Prof Divya Jindal-Snape (PI).
• Life transitions (Knowledge Exchange with Listening Stone Ltd), Scottish Funding Council (2011), £5000, Prof Divya Jindal-Snape (PI).
• Literature review of creativity in education, Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS) (2011), £9988, Prof Divya Jindal-Snape (CI) with Professor Dan Davies as PI from University of Bath Spa.
• Impact of Community Learning and Development, Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS) (2011), £15000, Dr Terry Barber (PI).
• A longitudinal study of the effectiveness of the Guitar Hero project for primary-secondary transition, Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS) (2010-2011), £32484, Prof Divya Jindal-Snape (PI) and Prof David Miller (CI).
• Effectiveness of a pioneering model of transitions of children excluded from secondary schools from residential care to community, Perth & Kinross Council, Children's Services (2008-2009), £8800, Prof Divya Jindal-Snape (PI).

Further information about the TCELT Research Network.

Resiliency, Risk and Vulnerability (RR&V) Research Network

To follow

Further information about the RR&V Research Network.