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Alliance Education Fund

The Monash Warwick Alliance encourages the development of joint research and education collaboration with the aim of mutually beneficial growth in the research and teaching excellence of both institutions. Congratulations to the following recipients who have been awarded funding:

Pathways to the public health workplace

Enhancing transferrable skills in undergraduate practical laboratories

Knowledge mobilisation in complex healthcare systems

Development of a strategic educational approach to the use of AR and VR

Sprinter school in multilingualism and diversity, MultiDiV

The linguistically diverse nature of contemporary societies is related to a range of complex phenomena in the areas of: language policy and practice; language contact and change, translation, interpreting and heritage learning; public sector translation/interpretation, translation and human rights. These constitute areas in which Monash and Warwick have an unbroken history of world-leading research. MultiDiv (Multilingualism and Diversity school) builds on this expertise and aims to push further current knowledge in the field. MultiDiv is led by: Professor Angouri (Warwick); Dr Chantal Wright (Warwick); Dr Willoughby (Monash) and Professor Burridge (Monash). It seeks to become a unique and sustainable rotating biennial Sprinter School which will be hosted alternately by the Universities of Warwick and Monash University. It will bring together senior academics, undergraduates and post graduates for an intensive five-day school which will involve writing workshops, data training and sessions on interpreting research for wider audiences, in particular policy makers and the media.

MultiDiv stems from the work of The Migration, Identity, and Translation Network (MITN), co directed by Professor Angouri (Warwick) and Professor Wilson (Monash). MITN is a multi-disciplinary network supported by the Monash Warwick Alliance which brings together researchers from across a range of faculties from Monash University and the University of Warwick. It explores issues relating to migration, identity, and translation from a variety of literary, cultural, linguistic, sociological, and historical perspectives, and seeks to bring that expertise into developing world-leading research and teaching and learning projects.

MutliDiv and MITN share a commitment to supporting student research and the development of early career researchers. MultiDiv will include all students, Undergraduate and Postgraduate, as equal participants and is keen to encourage and embed further undergraduate research in the curricula of the two institutions. MultiDiv aims to become a global hub of excellence for the study of multilingualism and diversity. MultiDiv 2019 will take place at the University of Warwick.

Principle applicants

Dr Louisa Willoughby

School of Languages, Literature, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University

Professor Jo Angouri

Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies , University of Warwick

Co-applicants

Professor Kate Burridge
School of Languages, Literature, Cultures and Linguistics

Dr Chantal Wright
Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick

AR/VR technologies in the teaching of cardiovascular disease

Virtual international employability & Work Integrated Learning

Adding a global perspective to Work Integrated Learning (WIL) enables students to benefit from work experience in an international context, whilst developing employability skills such as project management, communication, teamwork and intercultural skills through being part of a multi-disciplinary international student team. Added to this, international Work Integrated Learning (WIL) experiences are known to enhance student mobility and help define a student’s perception of their own graduate success.

Monash University Student Academic Experience Manager, Michelle Maes and University of Warwick International Employer Liaison Manager, Esther de Perlaky will work together to develop a new flagship initiative that provides a range of virtual, international Work Integrated Learning (WIL) and internship opportunities for students from Monash and Warwick. The Go International Work Integrated Learning (WIL) program will provide students with valuable intercultural and international experiences by working on a virtual industry project with an external organisation. A key strategy of the project team will be to work with Monash University, Malaysia campus to include their students and make connections with Monash industry partners in Asia.

Phase 1 will enable 50 students to form 10 teams of 5 to be supported and mentored by university staff throughout the project. Each team will also have a project mentor from the host organisation and will utilise secure online platforms designed to enable virtual groups to work together on projects.

By working together, the delivery and success of this program will be hugely accelerated through the sharing of knowledge, utilising existing resources, support mechanisms, technology platforms, industry contacts, tracking and outcome measurements and, importantly, differing cultural viewpoints.

Staff will collaborate to develop and deliver the program, produce new resources, and share and enhance existing resources to support students and industry mentors before, during and after the program to ensure both students and organisations gain maximum benefit. The pilot programme will be explored and proven, ahead of it being potentially rolled out more widely across both institutions.

Importantly, this initiative will enable the team to work with specific groups of students, including Widening Participation students, to be supported to explore and gain international Work Integrated Learning (WIL) experiences.

Principle applicants

Michelle Maes

Student Academic Experience Manager, Monash University

Esther de Perlaky

International Employer Liaison Manager, University of Warwick

Co-applicants

TBA, Experiential Education Coordinator. Monash University

Christine Fenton, Internships and International Officer, University of Warwick

Educator staff development across the Alliance

Research has demonstrated a positive link between institutional investment in a professional development programme for teaching staff aligned to the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF), and strong levels of engagement reported by students in the UK Engagement Survey (UKES).

The Teaching and Learning Unit at the University of Warwick has been successfully delivering Higher Education Academy (HEA) accredited schemes since 2012. The accreditation provides external and independent confirmation that professional development is aligned with the UKPSF. Successful participants on these programmes/schemes will be eligible to be awarded one of the four categories of HEA Fellowship; Associate Fellowship (Descriptor 1), Fellowship (Descriptor 2), Senior Fellowship (Descriptor 3) or Principal Fellowship (Descriptor 4).

This Alliance Exchange Program is led by Professor Clemans, Academic Director, Monash University and Dr Gramaglia, Learning and Development Manager, University of Warwick. It facilitates both institutions to share expertise in academic development to enable them to develop context-driven, high quality professional development programmes which are benchmarked to the international standards of the UKPSF. It will support the development of an accredited programme at Monash by sharing Warwick’s experience and expertise. Warwick staff will mentor and support colleagues at Monash to gain Fellowship or Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, and to establish an accredited CPD Fellowship programme at Monash. It will also identify possibilities for joint professional learning opportunities for educators at both institutions.

This exchange Working with allow Warwick leaders to deepen their understanding of internationalised approaches to academic development in order to enhance existing development programmes and inform plans for re-accreditation in 2020. Ongoing knowledge exchange will facilitate cross-fertilisation of ideas and approaches relating to education and educational development between the two institutions, and also between Australasian and European networks of academic developers.

In this way, working in partnership through the Monash Warwick Alliance creates unique opportunities to gain insights which are not only of benefit to the field of academic development, but also to the HE sector.

Principle applicants

Professor Allie Clemens

Academic Director, Monash Education Academy, Monash University, Malaysia campus

Dr Letizia Gramaglia

Head of Academic Development, Academic Development Centre, University of Warwick

Co-applicants

Dr Jennie Mills, Senior Academic Developer, Learning and Development Centre

Internationalisation of the student learning experience

Internationalisation within higher education institutions is a dominant issue in the UK and internationally. The recently published Education Strategy at Warwick reflects that importance at a local level and the Education Strategy at Monash similarly outlines that the curriculum will be infused with internationalism and enterprise to prepare our graduates for their futures in a multi-skillset workforce.

Led by Dr Nadine Normand-Marconnet and Caroline Gibson, a student project team will be recruited at both institutions so that staff and students can work together to map best practice in the sector and the two institutions. The aim is to provide practical guidance and resources to staff to enable them to create an internationalised holistic learning experience on campus and in the classroom. The team will seek to establish a community, across institutions for dissemination and cross fertilisation of ideas between academic staff and professional services. This will lead to the launch of a dedicated online space to support ongoing cross-institutional dialogue, review of activities and new areas of practice. By engaging students in the process of internationalising the learning experience, this project will seek to improve students’ valuing of internationalisation opportunities at the Universities and of their ability to access internationalisation opportunities.