Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Scholars Development and Grant Program
What is SoTL?
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is a cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research field that continues to grow in relevance with the increasing focus on evidence-based pedagogy within post-secondary education around the world. SoTL scholars explore research questions about teaching or learning at the post-secondary level within and across academic disciplines. Teaching and learning research projects seek to better understand teaching techniques, technologies, learning processes, relationships, environments, and more. Research questions can be situated within the context of disciplinary knowledge or address broader issues relevant across the academy.
The work of SoTL scholars benefits from, and informs, other research fields including K-12 educational research, discipline-based educational research, scholarship of educational development, and scholarship of educational leadership.
CELT is not offering SoTL at the moment
Grant Recipients
2024
| Jessica Allingham; Lindsay Blackstock; Sharon Brewer | Investigating Identity and Belonging in General Chemistry at TRU |
| Jim Hu | Teacher Perspectives on Strategies to Prevent Student Plagiarism Including Plagiarism via Artificial Intelligence |
| Leanne Mihalicz; Sarah Gibson; Harshita Dhiman; Jamie Noakes | Co-operative Education Teaching Beyond the Classroom |
| Natasha Ramroop Singh | Media created by students, for students: fostering community and generosity in the classroom and measuring the impact on learning and application of knowledge |
| Robin Westland | Connection-to-Place: Exploring the Intersections of Student Belonging, Empowerment and Gratitude |
| Twyla Exner | From Algorithms to Art: visual art creation using Artificial Intelligence as a tool and/or medium in post-secondary education |
| Tanya Manning-Lewis | Transformative Pedagogy for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion |
| Tom Waldichuk | Engaging Virtual Field Trips |
| Kimberly Thomas-Francois, Diane Janes | Exploring methods for teaching Social Theories –The use of Service Management Theories for Tourism Education |
2023
| Jiyoung Lee-An (Arts) | The effectiveness of cheat-sheets as a learning tool for critical thinking |
| Jim Hu (Arts) | Focusing on First-Year Student Plagiarism: What, Why, and What to Do about It |
| Tanya Manning-Lewis (EDSW) | Nurturing International Graduate Students’ Research Capabilities through Intentional Practice |
| Leanne Mihalicz (FSD) | A Multi-Discipline Collaboration in Co-operative Education Course Development |
| Patricia Parker (Arts) | Exploring Achievement Emotions in a Novel Achievement Setting |
2022
| Lindsey McKay (Arts) & Marie Bartlett (OL) | Multimodal Debates for Critical Thinking |
| Christine Petersen, Margaret Sonnenfeld (Science) | ’Skateboards, Roundabouts & Blood’ - An Investigative Case Study of Human ABO Blood Types: Does a CSI Context Improve Learning and Engagement? |
| Leanne Mihalicz, Sarah Gibson Jamie Noakes, Harshita Dhiman (FSD) | A Multi-Discipline Collaboration in Co-operative Education Course Development |
| Jennifer Grinstead Mason, Lisa Dyck, Erin Smith-Friesen (WL-Nursing) | Does it stick?: The impact of cultural safety experiential learning events threaded throughout an undergraduate nursing program |
| Jim Hu (EDSW) | Focusing on First-Year-Student Plagiarism and Institutional Support for Prevention |
| Sheila Blackstock, Shari Caputo, Kristen Plowe, James Lomen, Devon Graham, Margaret, Shamro, Elizabeth Andersen, Joyce O’Mahony, Tracy Hoot, Renee Anderson (Nursing) | Innovation in Simulation: Pilot Testing an Educational Intervention on Incivility in Nursing |
2021 - No grants awarded due to COVID-19
2020 - No grants awarded due to COVID-19
2019
| Edward Howe (EDSW) | S-STEP in Comparative and International Education |
| Crystal Huscroft (Science) | Mapping Belonging in a First Year STEM Course |
| Bala Nikku (EDSW), Ken Monroe (OL), Erin May (TRU Library) | Constructing Active International Social Work Teaching and Leaning: Insights from Canada and South Asia |
| Christine Petersen, Margaret Sonnenfeld (Science) | Integrating case studies with laboratory investigation improves deep learning - Skateboards, roundabouts and blood |
| Jane Steiger (EDSW) | Placement through IELTS Scores: Are Students More Likely to Fail? |
2018
| Joe Dobson, Dian Henderson (EDSW) | Investigating the Impact of the Language Learning Centre |
| Florriann Fehr (Nursing) | Exploring nurse educator understanding of medical cannabis and educational practice needs in nurse curriculum |
| Andrew Fergus (BGSoBE) | Virtual Reality (VR) and the learning experience |
| Jane Horton, Doug Knowles (EDSW) | ABE Futures Williams Lake Initiative |
| Christine Miller (EDSW) | Students’ Attitudes Towards and Evaluations of Prospective Open Textbooks |
| Jane Steiger (EDSW) | Placement through IELTS Scores: Are Students More Likely to Fail? |
| Nan Stevens (EDSW) | Protecting the salmon: An environmental awareness project of pollution in our rivers |
TRU Internal Research Fund
The Thompson Rivers University Internal Research Fund (IRF) is provided to support research, including the scholarship of teaching, with the aim of both (1) helping faculty become more competitive for external funding, and (2) scaffolding faculty development, especially in terms of tenure and promotion.
We strongly encourage faculty to consider applying to the IRF to support their SoTL projects.
External SoTL Awards
BCcampus Scholarly Teaching Fellows
The Scholarly Teaching Fellows program is designed to achieve the following results:
- Support educators to conduct research on teaching and learning (i.e., scholarly teaching, scholarly inquiry, action research, scholarship of teaching and learning projects);
- Support development and dissemination of evidence-based teaching practices that focus on student success and learning in BC post-secondary education;
- Help educators participate in scholarly work about teaching and learning through conference attendance, research support, and dissemination of their work.
