Engineering and Physical Sciences
EBL Fellow: Graham Gough
Faculty/School: EPS/Computer Science
Appointment: Honorary
e: graham.gough@manchester.ac.uk
t: 56277
staff profile,
research
EBL Fellow: Esther Ventura-Medina
Faculty/School: EPS/CEAS
Appointment: Honorary
e: Esther.ventura-medina@manchester.ac.uk
t: 64346
staff profile,
Student Intern 2009/10: Amy Freund
Amy is currently studying for a PhD in Physics, having completed her MPhys in Physics with Study in Europe at Manchester, with a year studying at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Throughout her degree she has enjoyed the group collaboration, learning freedom and challenges posed by EBL.
As an undergraduate student she experienced EBL through lab work and group projects, as well as from the perspective of EBL facilitator as a peer mentor. More recently, Amy has worked as an undergraduate lab demonstrator and really enjoys the contact this brings with students, supporting them in finding their own solutions to the experiments they’re working on.
Amy greatly enjoys her PhD research as a real-world form of EBL. She finds the skills she gained through EBL give her the tools to approach the new areas of learning she encounters in her multidisciplinary research area with confidence.
“This self-directed approach to learning can help a great deal with many other problems you might face – the ability to break something down to start from its underlying questions and decide from there which path of research and problem-solving to follow is at the heart of EBL. The undergraduate projects I found myself most motivated by were real-world, group projects with the scope to shape our own topic and approach.
I’m really looking forward to being a student intern, working with the CEEBL team to help embed this key method of learning more deeply across all subject areas. EBL is a very natural approach to learning which can be applied to almost all areas with all-round benefits for the student’s learning and problem-solving approaches.”
If you are interested in working with the CEEBL Student Interns, please contact Louise Goldring: louise.goldring@manchester.ac.uk; 66445.
