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LIVE Teaching Development Fund

The aim of the LIVE Teaching Development Fund (formerly Jim Bee Team Prize) is to encourage and reward excellence in teaching, particularly via the introduction and development of best practice to promote student learning.

This is achieved by providing select teams of staff with funding to undertake small-scale (maximum duration 2 years) educational development and/or research projects, based around their own teaching commitments.

Up to four prizes are awarded annually, with a maximum value of £10,000 each, covering a wide range of topics and funding the purchase of both equipment and non-academic staff time. 

The call for proposals goes out in April each year and the submissions are reviewed by a panel comprising: the Principal; the Vice-Principal (Teaching); the Chair of the Teaching Quality Sub-committee; a representative of the previous year's prize winners; a representative of the LIVE Centre; the President of the SUS. Prize winners are notified of their success in early July, with a two year project completion time frame.

Congratulations to the 2009 LIVE Teaching Development Fund winners:

• Ms Rachel Lumbis & Prof Sue Gregory - Assistant Lecturer in Veterinary Nursing & Professor in Veterinary Nursing
  Project “Development and Evaluation of a Veterinary Dental Teaching and Assessment Model”
  (Team: Ms Sophie Pullen, Ms Hilary Orpet, Mr Peter Nunn)

• Dr S Alonso – Lecturer in Veterinary Public Health
  “Development of an Audio-Visual Resource to Enhance the Teaching of Veterinary Public Health”
  (Team: Prof Katharina Stärk, Mr Brian Cox, Mr Nick Short, Dr Sarah Baillie)

• Prof C Wathes – Head of Centre for Animal Welfare
  “Development of a new Curriculum in Veterinary Ethics”
  (Team: Mr Martin Whiting, Prof Stephen May)

Previously funded projects include:

• Development of Haptic Simulations as an Adjunct to Veterinary Anatomy Teaching
• Do physical models and video demonstrations help veterinary undergraduates learn practical surgical skills ?
• Application for funding for communication skills DVDs
• Predictors of Success: A multivariable approach to aid student selection and progression through the BVetMed course
• Development of a Clinical Video Bank
• Genotyping two breeds of cattle using restriction mapping techniques
• Facilitation of self and peer assessment during clinical placements- does it lead to improved learning?
• The development of a computer aided learning and formative assessments in anaesthesia
• A tool for integrating the teaching of clinical skills, clinical reasoning and communication skills to aid transition from student to practitioner
• Development of a screen based clinical case simulator
• Providing student access to diagnostic imaging
• Developing novel models for teaching of systems anatomy in domestic species and to support vertical integration
• Enabling effective practical teaching in microbiology
• Advanced scientific practice in the research environment, enhancing the research experience of undergraduate students
• Revamp Structure and delivery of Reproduction Practicals during the Urogenital System 1 module
• Development of a computer aided learning package on cutaneous neoplasia
• Development of a computer aided learning tool for immunology
• You and your body - Investigating biological form and function
• QMH LIVE Team Vignettes
• The development and implementation for effective multisource feedback in the evaluation of senior clinical training scholars

For more information about LIVE Teaching Development Fund please contact the LIVE Centre manager.