Bjorn Robroek
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enthusing students by inquiry-based-learning
Teaching Qualifications:
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy [certificate]​
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP), Module 2 Developing learning design: supporting learning. University of Southampton.
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP), Module 1 Introduction to learning design: the practice of teaching. University of Southampton.
  • Several one-day pedagogical courses for PGCAP Module 3 Enhancing academic practice: Research Project Management; Achieving Impact; The Research Funding Landscape; The anatomy of a grant; The lifecycle of a grant; Interactive lectures. University of Southampton.
  • Introduction to University Teaching. Theoretical concepts and practical approaches to teaching and learning in HE. Teaching Support Centre, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. [certificate]
  • Several one-day teaching courses at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL): The art of questioning: teaching with clickers (or not); Alternatives to Powerpoint; Teaching Toolkit: teaching skills for doctoral assistants; Effective Interactive Teaching and Learning in Higher Education; Effective Lecturing; Effective ICT in Teaching: Teaching Toolkit II; Flipping a Class; Course Design. [certificates]
As a Lecturer at the University of Southampton, I am currently involved in teaching on:
  • BIOL1001 Experimental and Field Ecology [Community survey, plant traits: lecture)
  • BIOL1020 Core Skills in the Life Sciences
  • BIOL2008 Quantitative Methods in Biological and Environmental Science
  • BIOL2041 New Forest Field course
  • BIOL3068 Fluxes, Cycles, and Microbial Communities
  • BIOL6069 Advanced Field Research Project
  • Biology, Ecology, Zoology 2nd year tutorials

PhD supervision: 
  • ​Najam e Sahar: SPITFIRE DTP Eat in, or Eat out? The role of plant communities for microbial metabolic activity
  • Harry Shepherd: SPITFIRE DTP Using plant-soil feedbacks to enhance ecosystem restoration and biodiversity conservation
  • Magda Steele: IfLS Plant-Microbe interactions in a changing climate

  • Dan Turner: Linking above- and below-ground food webs and ecosystem functioning across a tropical forest modification gradient; Co-supervisor
  • Justine Gay-des-Combes, Improving slash-and-burn agriculture in Central Menabe. Graduated: 27 October 2017. Supervisor/daily supervisor
Past Teaching Experience:
  • ENV-220 Introductions in Ecology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
  • ENV-596 Design Project + SIE project, EPFL, Switzerland 
  • MasterMind, Environmental Biology programme, Utrecht University (UU), The Netherlands
  • B-B3TREK11 Tropical Ecology and Climate Change, UU, The Netherlands 
  • Introductions in Biology tutorials, UU, The Netherlands
  • Geography Tutorials + Research Placement, School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK
  • GEO-2141 Processes in the environment: ecology and soil science, UU, BSc level
Teaching material:
Non-comprehensive Plant Identification Guide (a quick help guide for students in BIOL1001 and BIOL2008 to speed -up with plant identification)
​Lecture on plant community trait ecology, introduction to a field practical (by Digital Learning University of Southampton)

GEO-2141: Robroek BJM & Smit C (2009). Reader Ecology 2009; Robroek BJM (2008). Reader Ecology 2008
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