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Engineering and Physical Sciences

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Chemical and Process Engineering (SCaPE)

Jane Templeton started work here in 2019, and has been seconded to the school four days per week. She currently provides support to the entire MSc cohort (around 80 students), offering assessment literacy workshops for individual programmes, 1:1 consultations, and support with the MSc research project in collaboration with the module leader.

Chemistry

Natasha Rust started work here in the 2020-21 academic year, and has been seconded to the school 1 day per week. She teaches on the core MSc research project module CHEM5501M where she supports students with a formative assessment task and explores the texts they are required to read and produce through an academic language and literacy co-constructed syllabus. She also offers individual and group consultations and weekly drop ins for the whole school.

Civil Engineering

Stephie Hoppitt started work here in 2019 and has been seconded to the school four days a week. She currently supports students across all MSc programmes (approximately 350 students), with a range of workshops mainly focussing on academic literacies in Semester 1 and on writing the dissertation in Semester 2. In addition, she runs optional grammar workshops, an additional support tutorial programme and bookable appointments. She also curates the programme learning platform with regular posts, written feedback on optional activities and written responses to queries. In Civil Engineering, the Assessment Support Programme is delivered entirely online based on student preference and to facilitate cross-cohort timetabling.

Computing

Carolyn Edwards started work here in 2019 for two days per week and handed over to Denise de Pauw in autumn 2022. Carolyn provided a series of workshops on listening to lectures in Semester 1 to the entire taught postgraduate cohort (around 150 students) and offered sessions on completing the initial stages of the MSc Project in Semester 2. She was also available for 1:1 consultations and supervisor referrals.

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Denise de Pauw started work here in autumn 2022, and has been seconded to the school two days per week. She takes over from Mick Parkin, who started in 2018. She plans to continue Mick's work in supporting students through timetabled module specific sessions, for group and individual project modules, drop-ins and bookable 1-1 or small group support.

Mathematics

Deak Kirkham started work in the School of Maths in 2020-2021 and has been seconded to the school for three days a week. The In-sessional provision covers both undergraduate and postgraduate students and includes: a two-semester programme of provision to first year undergraduates focussing on mathematics technical terminology, on communicative/ interactional competence (Semester 1) and writing skills (Semester 2); academic literacies delivery to both the undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations; ad hoc delivery on other modules; consultations and referrals across undergraduate and postgraduates with either/ both a language and/ or academic literacies focus.

Mechanical Engineering

Anna Murawska and Geoffrey Nsanja started work here in 2020, and have been seconded to the school four days per week. Although in the first semester participation was limited to a dozen or so students from across the whole taught postgraduate cohort, their sessions became rather popular in semester two, and have since continued to register high attendance levels. Anna took over in 2022, and she currently offers tailored workshops supporting Team Design Project and Professional Project modules, academic integrity workshops for the whole cohort, drop-ins and bookable 1-1 support.

Physics and Astronomy

Natasha Rust started work here in the 2020-21 academic year, and has been seconded to the school 1 day per week. She teaches on the two core modules for the MSc programme. She deconstructs the assessment tasks, required texts and example assignments within an academic language and literacy co-constructed syllabus with embedded formative tasks. She also offers individual and group consultations and weekly drop ins for the whole school.

Southwest Jiaotong

Insessional provision began in the second year of the SWJTU-Leeds Joint School in 2017 and currently supports approximately 300 undergraduate students in Civil Engineering and Transport, Mechanical Engineering, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science. Students at Level 1 take a 10-credit supernumerary Engineering Communications 1 module which helps with the transition from Level 0 to the first year of their undergraduate studies. Students at Level 2 take a 5-credit supernumerary Engineering Communications 2 module described in the case study below. Timetabled support for Level 3 final year projects started in 2020. Matthew Ketteringham started work at the Joint School in 2021 and is now seconded to the school for four days per week.