Teaching and Learning Seed Funding
The Educator Network (tEN) was pleased to offer four Teaching and Learning Seed Funding opportunities worth up to $1250 each in 2025.
Teaching and Learning Seed Funding projects are intended to provide an incentive and resource to enable our university educators to innovate in their learning and teaching for the benefit of student success and the sharing of good practice within the wider academic community. These investments provide seed funding for innovative learning, teaching and assessment initiatives and scholarship activities that may lead to publication.
Applicants were required to complete an application form and provide an outline of the proposed Learning and Teaching initiative. Further details on application requirements and eligibility are outlined in the application guidelines below.
Projects are required to comply with all relevant University policies and approval processes.
Successful projects are scheduled to run for up to six months, commencing on 5 May 2025 and conclude by 31st October 2025.
Application Form and Guidelines Applications are currently closed.
tEN Seed Funding Recipients
Congratulations to the successful applicants of the 2025 the Educator Network (tEN) Teaching and Learning Seed Funding projects! tEN is looking forward to hearing more about the following projects at the November 2025 tEN Showcase:
- Aboriginal Science Gala Day – Nick Riley, Lizzie Manning, Colin Sanctuary, Robertson Burgess, Codie Neal
- The Re-trial of Elizabeth McGree: An Immersive, Student-led Learning Opportunity –Alice Neikirk, Marie Hadley, Kcasey McLoughlin, Ray Nickson, Joseph Wenta
- Development of 360-degree Cadaveric Anatomy photographs and teaching videos as an institutional educational resource – Matthew Farrow, Ethan Cresswell, Ashlee Dunn, Alan Brichta, Doug Smith, Rebecca Lim
- Student perspectives on GenAI in learning and assessment – Erika Spray
Five projects were successfully awarded in April 2024, with all activities related to the grant being finalised by the 31st of October 2024. A majority of the projects presented during the November tEN Showcase: Education in Focus, you can view the recorded presentations and learn about each of these projects.
- School of Law and Justice: Curricular Justice Initiative
Samuel Woldermariam, Kevin Sobel-Reid, Amy Maguire, Marie Hadley
College of Human and Social Futures - Clinical Nursing Skills Initiative: Bridging Theory to Practice
Elizabeth Bembridge, Jeremy Rennex, Natalie Russell-Hurst, Bethany Porteous
College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing - Developing tool-agnostic materials to teach data scientific concepts
Kirill Glavatskiy, Ian Renner
College of Engineering, Science and Environment - Development of a Clinical Portfolio Framework for Undergraduate Pharmacy Students
Hayley Croft, Ian Heslop, David Newby
College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing - Indigenisation of the undergraduate curriculum in biomedical science, pharmacy and sport science: Consultation with Indigenous stakeholders
Karen Mate, Lizzie Manning, Guy Cameron, Saije Endacott, Sharleen Slater
College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.