Learning facilitated through collaborative research – A case study is the title of a workshop taking place on Thursday 23 February 2017, from 12.45 to 14.00, in the UELT Seminar Room (Canterbury Campus).

The workshop will be presented by Dr Henrik Schoenefeldt (School of Architecture, Humanities Faculty and winner of a Humanities Faculty Teaching Prize in 2016) as part of the Developing Teaching for Experienced Staff at the University.

To reduce humanity’s impact on the world’s climate system, the delivery of higher energy efficiency standards, such as the German PassivHaus standard, plays a central role. Achieving such standards, however, represents major challenge to the UK building industry, a challenge that can only be addressed through stronger partnerships between those involved in industry, education and academic research.

In this seminar Dr. Henrik Schoenefeldt will explore how higher education could fulfil its role in fostering such partnerships by embedding collaborative research into architectural education.

The second half of the session will be an interactive workshop in which the speaker will work with the participants to explore how collaborative research could be used as a teaching tool in other disciplines, such as law, engineering, business, healthcare or the arts.