Educational Scholarship and Inquiry Community (ESIC)

Educational Scholarship and Inquiry Community at St George’s

The Educational Scholarship and Inquiry Community (ESIC) aims to support colleagues who want to improve their practice through engaging in educational scholarship and inquiry. It offers you the opportunity to learn more about educational scholarship and inquiry and share your knowledge and experience with your colleagues.

What are ESIC objectives?

• Foster “research and scholarship in education as part of a culture of excellence”, considering City St George’s, School of Health & Medical Sciences unique position as a specialised health care university (Read our Strategic Vision 2030 - Education & Student Experience)
• Enhance knowledge and understanding of educational scholarship and inquiry.
• Facilitate professional development by supporting the sharing and dissemination of insights and outputs from educational scholarship and inquiry, internally and externally with the wider higher education community.
• Support understanding and engagement with dimensions of Advance HE’s Professional Standards Framework (PSF 2023) that relate to evidence-informed approaches to effective practice, critical evaluation of practice, and collaboration with others to improve practice.

How can ESIC support you?

ESIC provides you with a peer-facilitated forum to:

• Improve knowledge and skills required to undertake systematic educational inquiry via bi-monthly (once every two months) network events.
• Share educational inquiry work you have undertaken or work in progress with colleagues and receive and provide peer feedback.
• Receive support for writing up or presenting educational scholarship and inquiry outputs via “writing boot camps”, safe spaces to practice or individual feedback.
• Get peer support for developing successful educational grant applications (via the network events and one-to-one support).
• Gain access to relevant resources for educational scholarship and inquiry work (e.g., the ESIC Library Guide, downloadable journal articles and blogs etc).

How can you get involved in ESIC?

• Access the ESIC Teams site
• Join the ESIC mailing list (please contact Paola Motta)
• For further information, please contact Dr Thushari Welikala

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