The speakers recruited undergraduate students to do this research. They wanted a student consultant from each school. The students had to apply and then the learning and teaching co-ordinator for each school chose the student and they were mentored by a school member of staff who was a developer.

Some issues that arose early on were that staff all had different titles so researcher, teacher etc.

Each student did 9 interviews and then wrote a discipline based article which went into a journal the University produced. All students also presented at a learning and teaching conference.

The issues raised by the students’ research were:

1                     Teaching = social versus research so research is seen as an individual activity

2                     Research = the discovery of new knowledge and advancement of the discipline, it also leads to personal and professional development. Teaching though is for perceived as for others

3                     Ownership of research versus teaching being seen as sharing

4                     There were both disciplinary differences and personal perspectives of these views

This leads to needing to consider what are the implications of this for faculty development?