Teaching Excellence Projects

Manage your preferences

The Leeds Beckett website is designed to enable you to manage your own privacy preferences. By clicking on 'Cookies' below you can manage what data the site collects about your browsing. This will only maintain if you are on your own device or using a synched version of your chosen browser. If you are using a shared or public machine without synching your browser then there is no need to change the preferences.

Our site is built with accessibility in mind and we seek to adhere to the WACG AA levels of compliance for digital accessibility. To support that we have provided instructions on managing animations below.

Cookies

Necessary Cookies
Necessary cookies enable you to use all the different parts of leedsbeckett.ac.uk. Without them services that you have asked for cannot be provided. Necessary cookies can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences.
Analytical Cookies
Analytical cookies help us understand how people are using our websites, so we can improve them and provide a better user experience. We also sometimes get our approved partner companies to analyse how people are using Leeds Beckett Websites and they may set their own analytical cookies in order to do this.
Marketing Cookies
Marketing cookies allow us to provide you with online adverts that are the most relevant and useful for you.
For more information please view our Privacy Policy

Animations & Interaction

The Leeds Beckett University website occasionally uses animations to page elements and animated gifs to add impact to pages. If you wish to stop them from playing for accessibility purposes or for personal preference then please see the guidance below. Please note that browsers sometimes change how they operate, so please refer to your browser help files to find their latest information.
How do I turn off animations?

Chrome

Chrome users will need to use browser extensions. Animation Policy from Google will help you set your own preferences.

Microsoft Edge

There is currently no way to disable animations within Microsoft Edge. Users of Edge (Chromium) browser can install the Chrome extensions above and use them.

Internet Explorer

To stop animations on a single page you can just press the 'Esc' key. This will stop the animation on that page. If you wish to restart the animations you need to refresh the page. To permanently disable the playing of animated GIF images, open Internet Options > Advanced tab. Under the Multimedia section, uncheck the Play animations in webpage check-box, click Apply and Exit and then restart your computer.

Firefox

Type about:config in Firefox address bar and hit Enter to open Settings. Search for the image.animation_mode flag and change its value from Normal to None. Once you restart Firefox this will disable animations.

Teaching Excellence Project funding supports a range of research projects for the development and support of innovative learning and teaching in support of the university's education plan.

Application process

Download the application form and guidelines
Complete the application form
Seek the support of your head of subject (or dean of school)
Email the application form to clt@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

We are happy to discuss your proposed project and/or provide informal feedback on a draft version of your application.

If you submit an application and have not received an acknowledgement within five working days then please get in touch. Applications will be considered by a panel and funding, for successful project bids, will be available as soon as a project is agreed, or when the project is set to begin (within the same financial year). Any budget allocated should be used within the same financial year (this is a university constraint). There is a potential for projects (not budgets) to span financial years by designing this into the project, although there can be no guarantees of continued budget availability beyond a current academic/financial year. This needs to be considered, particularly when submitting projects towards the end of the academic year.

Application form

Project support and management

Support for project development

At times, CLT will identify topic areas they would like to have researched and will provide resources to support staff, who would like to research the topic within their subject/school, in developing a proposal and seeking collaborators. This will be particularly useful to staff who are new to pedagogic research. Staff who are confident in doing so may still propose their own project ideas.

CLT will post ideas for projects in the Research into Teaching in HE Collaboration channel.
Budget management

The budget allocated to the successful applicant's project will be held within CLT, who will provide procurement support, but the applicant will be responsible for monitoring their expenditure to ensure there is no budget overspend.

Previous winners

School or Service	Name	Project title	Outputs
Student Wellbeing	Matt Graham	Managing change, creating innovation: Pedagogical compassion, academic learning & the student experience
Leeds Law School	Sarah Waite	Game on: Co-creating gamified assessment strategies with students	Dr Sarah Waite case study Student participant case study
Leeds Law School	Jill Dickinson	Exploring the development of consistency in assessment and feedback: A case study from LLS
Leeds Business School	Esther Pugh	Staff video resources for student sense of belonging	Building belonging: Supporting student wellbeing at Leeds Beckett University \| Dr Esther Pugh

School or Service	Name	Project title
School of Sport	Liam McCarthy	Cross-cultural virtual sport coaching exchange
School of Health	Ruth Cross	Evaluation of academic advisor groups
Humanities and Social Sciences	Melanie Chan	Virtual people in higher education scoping project
School of Health	Christine Mantzouka	Assessing stress and coping mechanisms among nursing students
School of Sport	Louise Morby	Active classrooms in higher education: Enhancing student engagement and learning outcomes through movement-integrated education
Library and Student Services	Laurence Morris	Assessing the impact of international student academic skills support
Leeds Business School	Esther Pugh	From A to B-longing (2): Overcoming barriers to belonging with a focus on international students
Leeds Law School	Jill Dickinson	Developing students’ employability skills in HE: A cross-university collaborative approach
School of Health	Donna Johnson	Mastering success: Enhancing student integration and achievement through an extended induction programme

School or services	Name	Project title
Libraries and Student Services	Laurence Morris Ettenfield Laura	Developing transition and on-course support for international students
Leeds Business School	Esther Pugh	'From A to B-longing: Feedback exhibitions to map and improve students' journey towards belonging
Leeds School of Social Sciences	Linda Asquith	Teaching and trauma
School of Health	Louise Warwick-Booth	Students lived experiences of social divisions within education at LBU