Find out more about the group Associate Projects which are running in 2025-26 below. Available resources from projects will be accessible in due course. If you would like any further details about any listed projects please contact bilt-projects@bristol.ac.uk 

Pedagogic research and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL)

Team leads: Sally Dowling (Bristol Medical School) and Sheena Warman (Bristol Veterinary School)

Team members: Annika Johnson (School of Economics), Fiona Hartley (BILT), Gemma Ford (Bristol Medical School), Janet Orchard (School of Education), Lauren Goodhead (School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience), Maya Gobin (Bristol Medical School), Rachael Miles (School of Chemistry), Rushana Khusainova (University of Bristol Business School), Thomas Sealy (School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies) and Vivienne Kuh (School of Chemistry)

A key priority for BILT is to encourage the scholarship of learning and teaching and pedagogic research across the University. A number of pedagogic research groups exist across the university offering various levels of support to current and potential pedagogic researchers. BILT aims to work with these groups to develop and improve support open to all staff.  

In 23/24 BILT funded an Associate Project focused on exploring the support needs of academic staff engaging or wishing to engage in pedagogic research.  In 24/25 an Associate Project built on this research by developing a central web space and online training for those new to pedagogic research, offering advice and support. For 25/26 the project will build on this work, to extend support for pedagogic research – this is likely to include reviewing and extending the resources and support available to all staff.