Linking Teaching and Research

  Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University. (1998). Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities, University of New York: Stony Brook. http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/Pres/boyer.nsf/

  Brew, A. & Weir, J. (2004). Teaching-Research Nexus Benchmarking project: The University of Sydney and Monash University. http://www.adm.monash.edu.au/cheq/academic/

  Hattie, J. & H. W. Marsh (1996). The Relationship Between Research and Teaching: A Meta-Analysis, Review of Educational Research, 66, 4, pp. 507-542. [Can be obtained electronically through the Murdoch library website by searching under the journal title.]

   Jenkins, A. & Healey, M. (2005). Institutional Strategies to Link Teaching and Research, The Higher Education Academy: York. Available at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources.asp?process=full_record&section=generic&id=585

  Zubrick, A. Reid, I. & Rossiter, P. (2001). Strengthening the Nexus Between Teaching and Research, Department of Science Education and Training. http://www.dest.gov.au/archive/highered/eippubs/eip01_2/default.htm

The following provide short clips from activities at the University of Tasmania

  Mark Hovenden, School of Plant Sciences
"Teaching broadens my knowledge, ... and opened a whole lot more research branches.."
http://www.utas.edu.au/tl/trn/mhovenden.html

  Elaine Stratford, School of Geography and Environmental Studies
"I draw on the teaching and the research one to the other in terms of content and particularly in terms of methods."
http://www.utas.edu.au/tl/trn/estratford.html

  Elizabeth Leane, School of English, Journalism & European Languages
"I think when you're giving a lecture there's nothing like making some kind of personal connection for getting the students interested."
http://www.utas.edu.au/tl/trn/eleane.html

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