Yes / University lecturers are required to undertake teaching and also to produce high quality papers for REF. This can be a very hard situation, especially for early career researchers. They always face the diplomas of no starting-up funding and no man power to start a new research area. This could be very challenging. Apart from
constantly pursing funding and establishing collaboration, I integrated student research projects teaching into my own
research. I summarise main points which help me to achieve. 1) Designing a multidisciplinary project. Research
informed teaching is the key to success. Based on my own research plan, I designed interdisciplinary project to attract
students with particular attention to decompose comprehensive research proposal into small parts which is achievable
within students’ ability and time scale. For example, in the past two years I designed a series projects for final year
undergraduates and MSc students based on my own projects of “interaction of nanoparticle with cell membrane”.
Within these projects, students will have chance to expose themselves to research. For example, students will be able
to explore new research area of nanotechnology, especially on nanoparticles; basic biological lab skills like cell
culture, treating cells with toxins; and physiological implication of nanoparticles interacting with human body etc.
These greatly inspire students thinking. At the meantime, giving student freedom and full supervision allow them to be
successful. Through carefully supervision I am confident that I could get preliminary data from students’ experiments
for my grant application. 2) Integrating resources to exert full. I deliberately arranged students at different levels to
join in my own project at different stages. For example, final year undergraduate projects starts from Oct every year
and last till March, then MSc project starts from Feb every year and last till August. I also apply for small funds to have
summer students from July to Sept. Therefore I can always have students doing some experiment in the lab. The
budgets from student projects are really good boost and supplementary for my own project. There is also a
consistency in the projects to avoid waste and unnecessary repeat. I included students in materials, equipment
preparation and explained key updated skills to increase students’ passion and to inform them of how to start a new
topic from scratch. 3) Setting high standard to achieve. I continuously encourage students to achieve. It would be
great to have someone who can work through whole period of your new research proposal. I particularly encourage
students to design experiments, to deliver ideas, to write scientific reports for conference, and even to draft paper for
submission. This would not only help students for their future career but also help myself to quickly build up my own
research. It is hard process but worth.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/10912 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Shang, Lijun |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Conference paper, Accepted manuscript |
| Rights | © 2016 The Authors. Published by the Physiological Society. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy., Unspecified |
| Relation | http://www.physoc.org/proceedings/abstract/Proc%20Physiol%20Soc%2037PCA094 |
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