Informal monthly meetings with Dr Simon Pratt-Adams and Dr Mark Warnes for those engaged in or interested in pedagogic research, with a different focus each month. The theme for the Pedagogic Research monthly meetings for 2025/6 is Student Experience and Engagement.
This month's speaker is Vanessa Ferguson: Using VR to foster engagement in skills education: An illustration of the efficacy of VR environments in student reassessment.
This session will outline the main findings of recent doctoral research on using VR simulation for social work skills education. It further demonstrates examples of the research findings in applied practice, to the benefit of ARU's students, teaching team and community partners.