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72 - Undergraduate Research in the UK

Autonomy and Flexibility across a Millennium

from Part IV.4 - Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2022

By
Pauline Kneale
Edited by
Harald A. Mieg ,
Elizabeth Ambos ,
Angela Brew ,
Dominique Galli  and
Judith Lehmann
Harald A. Mieg
Affiliation:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Elizabeth Ambos
Affiliation:
Council on Undergraduate Research, Washington DC
Angela Brew
Affiliation:
Macquarie University, Sydney
Dominique Galli
Affiliation:
Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis
Judith Lehmann
Affiliation:
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Summary

The mission statements and teaching and learning strategies of some 150 UK universities speak of undergraduate programs fostering criticality, rationality, expert knowledge, independent thinking, professional standards, and independent learning through case studies, project, placements, and practice modules culminating in the undergraduate project or dissertation. This capstone, final-year, independently researched project enables students to demonstrate their expertise as discipline practitioners. Since 2000 there have been more opportunities for undergraduate research to be published through e-journals and research conferences. Undergraduate research practice is evolving in new disciplines and as business and industry collaborations grow. Pedagogic research into students’ appreciation and understanding of their learning from their own research, and inquiry into the effectiveness of research embedded across programs and within supervision processes, will continue.

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UKundergraduate researchcapstone projecte-journalsresearch conferences
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The Cambridge Handbook of Undergraduate Research , pp. 649 - 658
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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