Case Studies

Example 1
evidence based practice materials

Example 2
building group work skills

Example 3
building research communities

Example 4
project based learning activities

Example 5
research and teaching: an intrinsic link

Example 6
the link between cultural identity and research

Example 7
An inextricable link - theory into practice

Example 8
Teaching connoiseurs of research

Example 9
Exploiting the link in course design

Example 10
innovative practice linking engineering methods and principles to constructing a winning product

Example 11
research and links to critical pedagogy

Example 12
Four examples to promote the synergy in history

Example 13
Students' perspective on linking research and teaching

Example 14
Two students'
perspectives

Margaret Wallace in nursing describes how she develops students’ ability to be connoiseurs of research:

Example 1 Key questions are:

• What is research?
• Where to find it ie library skills
• How to appreciate the research process and question
• How to tie in a research question to clinical practice with appropriate application
  

Margaret emphasises the importance of embedding these skills throughout the curriculum over the three-year degree.

Students work in concert with library staff and have to submit an outline of

• Search strategy
• Particular terms used
• What worked well and what they would do differently next time

Students are given a list of questions to help them critique the articles they have found. For example,

Was it a reasonable question?
What about the sample?
Was their sufficient detail about the instruments used?
Are the results in an understandable format?
Does the conclusion logically follow?
How do the results apply in practice?

Example 2

Other links to practical application of research in nursing; Students are asked to write about a critical incident that happened to them on practical. They need to consider

What disturbed them/what excited them and why
What were the consequences
What action was taken, if any
What action would they have liked to have taken with hindsight

And then investigate and compare the research literature on the issue. Margaret notes that students are sometimes able to change practice with the support of their understanding of the research literature. Practising nurses are often interested in new understandings of existing procedures.

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