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  • About overview
  • Year in Review
  • How to Find Us
  • The CCTL Team
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Our Research

  • Our Research overview
  • APP Participatory Action Research Project
  • Cambridge staff perceptions of generative AI
  • Experiences of digital education

Enhancing Education

  • Enhancing Education overview
  • Guiding Principles

Awarding Gaps

  • Awarding Gaps overview

Mind the Gap Toolkit

  • Mind the Gap Toolkit overview
  • Glossary of Terms
  • FAQs
  • Readings & Resources

1. How do you know?

  • 1. How do you know? overview
  • Quantitative research findings
  • Impact of Covid-19
  • Limitations of data
  • Qualitative research findings
  • Sources of useful data

2. What are the reasons?

  • 2. What are the reasons? overview
  • What does the sector say?
  • What do Cambridge students say?
  • Assessment and awarding gaps
  • The deficit approach
  • The hidden curriculum

3. What works?

  • 3. What works? overview
  • What is needed?

Examples of effective practice

  • Examples of effective practice overview
  • 1. Curriculum design
  • 2. Assessment & feedback
  • 3. Teaching practices
  • 4. Learning environments
  • 5. Staff & student engagement

APP Research Project

  • APP Research Project overview
  • Cycle 4 (2022-23)
  • Cycle 5 (2023-24)
  • Project Outputs

Cycle 1 (2019-20)

  • Cycle 1 (2019-20) overview
  • A | Advisory Hub
  • A | Anti-Racist Glossary
  • A | Mentoring
  • A | STEMM Subjects
  • B | Content Notes
  • B | Diagnosis and Screening
  • B | Diversifying Assessment
  • B | Double Time
  • B | Intermission
  • B | Time Costs

Cycle 2 (2020-21)

  • Cycle 2 (2020-21) overview
  • A | Curricular Representation
  • A | First-Year Transition
  • A | Supervisions
  • B | Assessment Guidance
  • B | Peer Learning
  • B | Supervisions

Cycle 3 (2021-22)

  • Cycle 3 (2021-22) overview
  • A | Decolonisation
  • A | Race and Mental Health
  • B | Diversifying Assessment
  • B | Formative Feedback
  • B | Self-Advocacy

Educational Enquiry

  • Educational Enquiry overview
  • Research & Evaluation
  • Ethics
  • Educational Research Networks

Ethics Review Committee

  • Ethics Review Committee overview
  • Review Process
  • Meeting Dates
  • Terms of Reference
  • Members

Students as Partners

  • Students as Partners overview
  • Students as Partners [PDF]
  • Introduction
  • Roles
  • Considerations
  • Starting a partnership project
  • Case studies
  • Networks and journals
  • References and resources

Assessment at Cambridge

  • Assessment at Cambridge overview
  • Good Practice Guidance [PDF]
  • Assessment Glossary
  • Commonly Interchanged Terms

Good Practice Guidance

  • Good Practice Guidance overview
  • Good Practice in Assessment
  • Format-specific Guidance
  • Case studies

Further Resources

  • Further Resources overview
  • Inclusive Teaching & Learning
  • Lecture Recordings
  • Black Advisory Hub

Content Notes

  • Content Notes overview
  • Common misconceptions
  • What do I do next?

What are content notes?

  • What are content notes? overview
  • Why use content notes?
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Other mental health conditions
  • Benefits for other students
  • Legal duty

How to use content notes

  • How to use content notes overview
  • When to use content notes
  • Staff concerns
  • How to present content notes
  • Alternative approaches

Peer Learning

  • Peer Learning overview
  • Murray Edwards "Subject Advisors"
  • Wolfson College "Writing Consultants"
  • History of Art "Buddy Groups"

Teaching Programmes

  • Teaching Programmes overview
  • Cambridge Teaching & Learning Recognition Scheme
  • Advancing Educational Practice Programme
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education

Researcher Development Fellows Programme

  • Researcher Development Fellows Programme overview
  • Application Questions

Short Courses

  • Short Courses overview
  • Supervising Undergraduates
  • Supervising Postgraduates
  • Accessibility & Disability
  • Admissions Selection
  • Direction of Studies
  • Tutoring

Networks

  • Networks overview
  • Researcher Development Forum
  • Teaching & Learning Newsletter

Teaching & Learning Community of Practice

  • Teaching & Learning Community of Practice overview
  • T&L Community of Practice Team

Skills Educators' Network

  • Skills Educators' Network overview
  • Student Skills Strategy

Events

  • Events overview
  • Enhancing Assessment Forum
  • Annual Meeting: Undergraduate Education
  • Annual Meeting: Postgraduate Education

Cambridge Teaching Forum

  • Cambridge Teaching Forum overview
  • Resources from Past Fora

Teaching Prizes

  • Teaching Prizes overview
  • Pilkington Prize 2025
  • History of the Prize
  • Nominations Process
  • Previous Prize Winners
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    About

    About overview
    • Year in Review
    • How to Find Us
    • The CCTL Team
    • Our Research
    • News
  • Enhancing Education

    Enhancing Education

    Enhancing Education overview
    • Guiding Principles
    • Awarding Gaps
    • Educational Enquiry
    • Assessment at Cambridge
    • Further Resources
  • Teaching Programmes

    Teaching Programmes

    Teaching Programmes overview
    • Cambridge Teaching & Learning Recognition Scheme
    • Advancing Educational Practice Programme
    • Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education
    • Researcher Development Fellows Programme
  • Short Courses

    Short Courses

    Short Courses overview
    • Supervising Undergraduates
    • Supervising Postgraduates
    • Accessibility & Disability
    • Admissions Selection
    • Direction of Studies
    • Tutoring
  • Networks

    Networks

    Networks overview
    • Teaching & Learning Community of Practice
    • Skills Educators' Network
    • Researcher Development Forum
    • Teaching & Learning Newsletter
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    Events

    Events overview
    • Cambridge Teaching Forum
    • Enhancing Assessment Forum
    • Annual Meeting: Undergraduate Education
    • Annual Meeting: Postgraduate Education
  • Teaching Prizes

    Teaching Prizes

    Teaching Prizes overview
    • Pilkington Prize 2025
    • History of the Prize
    • Nominations Process
    • Previous Prize Winners
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    • About
    • Enhancing Education
    • Teaching Programmes
    • Short Courses
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    • Events
    • Teaching Prizes

About

  • About overview
  • Year in Review
  • How to Find Us
  • The CCTL Team
  • Our Research
  • News

Overview

Our work can be summarised as falling under five strands, outlined below. Links to more information on these courses, projects, networks and resources are provided where possible:

Developing teaching

  • An Introduction to Undergraduate Supervision
  • Supervising Postgraduate Research Students
  • Advancing Educational Practice Programme
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education
  • Cambridge Teaching & Learning Recognition Scheme

Postgraduate researcher development

  • Skills Development Workshops and Events
  • Researcher Development Guidance
  • Researcher-Led Events Funding
  • One-to-One Support
  • Royal Literary Fund Writing Support
  • Writing Retreats: including a specialist retreat for neurodiverse students

Events

  • Cambridge Teaching Forum
  • Diversifying Assessment Forum
  • Annual Meeting for Directors of Undergraduate Education & Senior Tutors
  • Annual Meeting for Directors of Postgraduate Education & Postgraduate Tutors

Projects & networks

  • Cambridge Skills Educators' Network
  • Teaching & Learning Community of Practice
  • Researcher Development Forum
  • Student Voice
  • Being and Becoming a University 'Teacher'

Resources & support

  • Cambridge Higher Education Studies Research Ethics Committee
  • 'Students as Partners' Guide
  • Assessment Good Practice Guide
  • Postgraduate Research Supervision Support Project

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