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Guidelines and Best Practices for Research-Based Teaching
An account of the 3rd UPKSILLS multiplier event, 04/11/2022, Utrecht Teaching and research constitute the two core activities in academia. Yet, they are typically planned, performed and evaluated separately, often by different teams. This means that many possibilities...
Fit for the job market? Teaching transferable skills to future language experts
An account of the 2nd UPKSILLS multiplier eventThe aim of the second UPSKILLS multiplier event was to share our best practices and guidelines for the collection and creation of learning content targeting transferable skills which can be put to use in language-related...
Every time I hire a linguist…
An account of the 1st UPKSILLS multiplier eventIn keeping with the spirit of UPSKILLS, the first multiplier event of the project was conceived not only as a way of disseminating results, but also as a concrete opportunity for university students – and lecturers – to...
Integrating research into teaching (Survey now closed)
Are you a researcher who is also teaching in linguistics and language-related disciplines? We are currently compiling some guidelines regarding best practices in research-based teaching. If you would like to contribute and share your knowledge, please fill in the...
Game Play Preferences Survey (Survey now closed)
Have you recently graduated or are you currently reading for a linguistics or language-related Higher Education degree? The UPSKILLS project is investigating the use of games and gamification as supporting methods to target skills gaps and address industry and...
Needs analysis (Survey now closed)
Do you employ linguists? To find out how to better prepare linguists and language experts for the evolving job market, the project consortium is reaching out to companies and other employers. We hope that you can help us by answering 10 questions in the survey below....