Thomas Lancaster

I am an experienced Computer Science academic, best known for research work into academic integrity, plagiarism and contract cheating. I have held leadership positions in several universities, with specialty in student recruitment and keen interest in working in partnership with students. Please browse around the blog and the links, and feel free to leave your thoughts.

Teaching Undergraduate Research Methods Using Action Learning Sets – Video Post

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This video presentation explores the methods that I’ve been using with my undergraduate students to help them to gain a practical understanding of research methods and to become prepared to use research within their final year project. The presentation is part of the current Higher Education Academy project on Innovation In The Assessment Of Social …

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How To Create A High Quality Personal Statement For University Entry

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As part of my responsibility for the BSc Computer Science course at Birmingham City University, I get the opportunity to review a lot of Personal Statements submitted by students looking to join the course. I spoke to students at Solihull College about how to best present themselves for successfully university entry and the slides are …

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Examples Of Promoting Research Through Professional Presences

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Here are the slides that I delivered at the HEA workshop “Professional Presences For Academics” related to examples of different promotional methods. The slides are hosted on the SlideShare account for Thomas Lancaster. They cover all types of ways of self-promotion using web sites, blogs and social media, but they will be particularly useful to …

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What Makes Up A Professional Presence For Academics?

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There’s always a question about what makes up a good professional presence for academics. There are so many different sites which could be registered with and used, and this can look overwhelming to someone new to representing themselves online. These are the slides I delivered for a recent Higher Education Academy workshop where I broke …

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