HUBS news and reports
Teaching & Learning Workshop Reports
June 2023
HUBS and HUCBMS Joint Workshop
Happy Staff, Happy Students: Mental Wellbeing for the Whole University Community
May 2023
HUBS Learning & Teaching Workshop Series 2023
Practical Teaching in the Biosciences
April 2023
HUBS Learning & Teaching Workshop Series 2023
Developing Inclusive Pedagogies in the Biosciences
Kingston University
HUBS Learning & Teaching Workshop Series 2023
What makes our feedback unsatisfactory? A safe place to discuss
Newcastle University
February 2023
HUBS and The Company of Biologists co-branded Workshop
Increasing the visibility and impact of your research
July 2022
HUBS Learning & Teaching Workshop Series 2022
Universities and Professional Bodies Working in Partnership to Decolonise the STEM Curriculum
July 2022
HUBS and HUCBMS Joint Workshop
Remote Exams and EDI
September 2021
HUBS Bioscience Educators' Network (BEN) Workshop
Inspiring, developing, and supporting the future stars of Bioscience Education - Launch Event for Cohort 2
Our Bioscience Educators' Network supports bioscience educators at all career stages through a sustainable network around career support, promotion and award nominations.
April 2021
HUBS Learning & Teaching Workshop Series 2021
Teaching Biosciences in a Pandemic: what lessons did we learn?
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown, higher education was forced to quickly adapt their practice to allow students to continue gaining the required knowledge and skills without leaving their homes. A year on, this online workshop will encourage academics to reflect on the positive and negative implications of the changes in teaching and learning caused by the global lockdown. Also, it will initiate discussions around enhancement and innovation in teaching practices so we can prepare our graduates for the jobs of the future.
March 2021
HUBS ECLBio Workshop Series 2021
Scientific Outreach for the Early Career Lecturers
This workshop was designed to cater for the specific needs of science colleagues who are (newly) appointed in Higher Education; from new lecturers, research focused academics, to postgraduate students and early-career researchers. The workshop brings together a line-up of award winning public engagement specialists as well as early carreer lecturers in biosciences that will showcase their experiences in communicating science to the larger public.
February 2021
HUBS ECLBio Workshop Series 2021
Academic Publishing for Early Career Lecturers in Biosciences
Online webinar focused on academic publishing for early career lecturers and researchers in biosciences. This two-hour online webinar was designed to cater for the specific needs of science colleagues who are relatively newly appointed in Higher Education; from new lecturers, research focused academics, to postgraduate students and early-career researchers.
HUBS/HUCBMS joint Learning & Teaching Workshop
Inspiring, developing, and supporting the future stars of Bioscience Education
Career development and support for education focussed academics often lags behind that of researchers. This workshop will support bioscience educators at all career stages, by building a sustainable network around career support, promotion and award nominations. We will share best practice and encourage attendees to link their work in improving student outcomes to their own career development. We will also establish an on-going career mentorship network; delegates are encouraged to become a mentor or mentee or both so that the workshop can have lasting impact.
January 2021
HUBS ECLBio Workshop Series 2021
New to Teaching Bioscience in Higher Education
This half-day, online workshop is designed to cater for the specific needs of science colleagues who are relatively new to teaching in Higher Education; from new lecturers, fixed-term teaching-focused academics, to postgraduate students and early-career researchers. The workshop provides an opportunity to discuss and share best practice in science education with other early-career academics and lecturers who have won awards for their teaching.
Enhancing Teaching and Learning Partnerships
Engaging students as partners in T&L continues to attract growing attention and critical debate, including in relation to enhancing the learning process itself and empowering students as T&L change agents.
July 2020
HUBS and HUCBMS Joint Workshop
Reimaging non-traditional Final Year Research and Honours Projects: Preparing graduates for the 21st Century workplace
This collaborative workshop focused on alternatives to the traditional final year research project.
Closing Attainment Gaps in the Biosciences
In this workshop, a co-production between Royal Holloway and Kingston University, speakers shared their own effective practice and practical ideas for improving the outcomes of under performing demographic groups.
HUBS and HUCBMS Joint Workshop Reimaging non-traditional Final Year Research and Honours Projects: Preparing graduates for the 21st Century workplace
This collaborative workshop focused on alternatives to the traditional final year research project.
January 2020
HUBS ECLF Workshop - Research and Teaching
This one-day workshop event was designed to cater for the specific needs of bioscience colleagues who have reached a career stage in which they are called on to develop their own research programme while providing lectures and other university teaching but who are yet to (or have only recently been) appointed to substantive academic posts.
September 2019
Work-integrated learning: Enhancing graduate employability
The workshop focused on the three current predominant WIL strategies; module provisions and work-simulated learning, short four week credit bearing and volunteering placements opportunities and longer year-long industrial placements.
July 2019
HUBS and HUCBMS Joint Workshop Overcoming barriers in chemistry teaching within the biosciences
This HUBS funded workshop was run by the school of biosciences at the University of Birmingham and disseminated best practice and promotes critical discussion around the best ways to achieve effective collaboration for teaching staff and students.
June 2019
Building resilience in and out of the curriculum
This workshop considered the advantages, disadvantages and pitfalls of strategies to build resilience within and outwith the undergraduate curriculum.
June 2018
Collaborative teaching and learning workshop: developing skills for the future
This HUBS funded workshop was run by the school of biosciences at the University of Birmingham and disseminated best practice and promotes critical discussion around the best ways to achieve effective collaboration for teaching staff and students.
July 2017
Learning through games and play
This HUBS-funded workshop will introduce the theory of gamification and play mechanics and will be held at the University of York on 19th July 2017.
June 2017
HUBS, HUCBMS and IBMS Joint Workshop: Teaching maths to biologists using non-digital games
This HUBS, HUCBMS and IBMS joint funded workshop will examine how games can help teach maths to biologists and will be held at the University of Sheffield on 30th June 2017.
April 2017
Understanding and implementing inclusive learning and teaching in bioscience education | Talk slides | Report
This HUBS-funded workshop was held at Kingston University on 3rd April 2017
January 2016
Assessments that Reward Learning and Feedback that Builds Resilient Students
This HUBS-funded workshop was held at the University of Bristol on 8th January 2016.
Project reports
September 2015
Teaching and learning issues in the biosciences
With funding from the Higher Education Academy the Royal Society of Biology conducted research on teaching and learning within the biosciences.
June 2014
Audit of Practical Work Undertaken by Undergraduate Bioscience Students across the UK Higher Education Sector
This was completed over 2013 and 2014 through collaboration of HUBS, Biochemical Society, Royal Society of Biology and the Higher Education Academy.
June 2014
Improving the Status and valuation of teaching in the careers of UK academics
HUBS have been working alongside the Royal Society of Biology, the Academy of Medical Sciences and The Physiological Society to review the status and valuation of teaching in higher education. Full details of the project and online annexes.
Watching Briefs
The HUBS Executive Committee maintain a number of watching briefs covering the following topics:
- Teaching Excellence Framework
- Office for Students
- Research Excellence Framework
- Knowledge Excellence Framework
- Brexit
- Degree apprenticeships
- Inclusivity and widening participation
- Scotland and Curriculum for Excellence
- International and FE
The purpose of these (written) watching briefs were keep the committee and HUBS member institutions up to speed with recent developments.
Previous (written) watching briefs were compiled twice yearly, examples of which can be downloaded below: