Congratulations to our colleagues on the TEN Project, winners of the "Transcending Knowledge Transfer" category at the National Teaching Expert Awards for Higher Education 2015. These awards celebrate outstanding teaching in the Higher Education Sector. The successful team are Professor Anne Ryan, Dr. Bernie Grummell, Maggie Noone (all from the Department of Adult and Community Education), Professor Martin Downes (Department of Biology) and Dr. Conor Murphy (Department of Geography).
Their entry for the award was based on a Masters programme designed and delivered in partnership with staff from Mzuzu University (Malawi), the Zambian Open University and Mulungushi University (Zambia). The Masters was part of an Irish Aid / HEA funded project concerned with climate change and food insecurity. The team’s entry focused on two teaching exemplars.
The first described how creating a ‘Community of Practice’ enhanced the level and type of engagement between smallholder farming communities who are particularly vulnerable to climate change, the agencies that work with them and the university. The second described an exercise entitled ‘visioning the future’ in which the team highlighted how important it is when creating transformative learning opportunities to give students a chance to ‘imagine’ a world that is different to the one in which they are immersed.
Well done to Anne, Bernie, Maggie and Martin and special congrats to Conor who co-ordinated the academic teams from the four universities who designed and delivered the inter-disciplinary Masters programme.
The Transformative Engagement Network (TEN) is a research project funded through the Programme for Strategic Cooperation between Irish Aid and Higher Education and Research Institutes.
Please follow this link to our Research Page for further details: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/adult-and-community-education/our-research