A student organised conference

Almost all our graduate students do not continue a career in parasitology so there was little need for discipline related skills training. However there was a need to give our students more experience and training in transferable skills to respond to the expectations of potential graduates' employers. There were few opportunities for interaction between the students and non-academic professionals.

In order to address the above issues I proposed a new format for the Level 3 parasitology module: a peer assessed student-organised conference and the introduction of a variety of assessed tasks.

This case study was generated as part of an LTSN Bioscience Teaching Development Project. Further details about the project.