UK Council for International Student Affairs Grant Funding (Group Award) (2016)

Awarded to Aisling Keane (PI), Chris Johnson and Etain Tansey. UKCISAs received 37 applications in total and ours was selected after careful consideration by two external assessors and a final panel.
The project outcomes were to:
• Identify the unique academic and cultural challenges facing culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students as they study Biosciences at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB).
• Develop a programme for inducting CLD international students into the teaching and learning environment.
• Disseminate the results of the pilot scheme to teaching staff within the Health Science Faculty at QUB and beyond;
o to raise awareness amongst teaching staff of the unique challenges facing CLD students
o to support the development of skills in teaching staff enabling them to continue the work begun by this pilot scheme