Dr Helen St Clair-Thompson as project lead with Patrick Rosenkranz, Effy Tzemou, Tascha Clapperton, Amy Fielden, Sue Thorpe, and Gavin Oxburgh, from the School of Psychology have been awarded a 2014/15 ULTSEC Innovation Fund (£1520) to investigate “How to facilitate reading for undergraduate psychology students”.

The project aims to design and implement a method for facilitating reading using a series of structured reading groups. These are likely to use a flipped classroom approach, requiring preparation before the sessions, with the sessions themselves involving activities such as debates and presentations. The project will also involve an initial literature review and an evaluation of the reading groups.