An impact evaluation of the effects of presenting at an ACUR conference on students’ subsequent study and careers.

An ethics application has been prepared and this is in consideration at the University of the Sunshine Coast. An online questionnaire is ready to go as soon as ethics approval has been received. It will be sent to approximately 650 students.
Project leaders: Prof Denise Wood, Dr Lilia Mantai and Prof Angela Brew

Strategies being used in Australasian universities to assess student learning in undergraduate research: A scoping project.

This is a collaboration between ACUR and Deakin University’s Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE). Margaret Bearman at Deakin University has taken on the project leadership and has negotiated for the project to be carried out in 2021 as an Honour’s project.
Project leaders: Prof. Margaret Bearman, A/Prof Jaclyn Broadbent, Dr Lilia Mantai and Prof Angela Brew.

Undergraduate engagement in research during the COVID-19 pandemic

This project aims to investigate how undergraduate engagement in research activities has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the project is an illuminative evaluation of the experiences of undergraduate researchers and reviewers in participating in the “Great ACUR Undergraduate Research Writing Project” where they were asked to explore how COVID-19 had changed research within a chosen disciplinary area. The research is designed to explore how undergraduate researchers experienced engaging in the ACUR Undergraduate Research Writing project;  what were their motivations for entering, what did they gain and what, if any, actions did they take following the experience; what were the motivations and experiences of the reviewers; and what do the 500-word written statements submitted for the competition tell us about how COVID-19 has impacted research in different disciplines?
Project Leaders: Dr Lilia Mantai, Ms Olivia Jessop, and Emeritus Professor Angela Brew

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