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Professor Mike Speed

Dean of the School of Life Sciences School of Life Sciences

    Teaching

    I teach in areas of Evolution, Animal Behaviour and Human Genetics.

    Year 1 - Darwinian Medicine (LIFE103)
    Year 2 - Animal Behaviour (LIFE208), Human Genetics (LIFE208)
    Year 3 - Advanced Topics in Animal Behviour (LIFE322)

    Promoting independent learning in large-group teaching.

    Often via web-delivered self- study units, and the use of structured online discussion forums ("Wikis").

    I persue a general philosophy that graduate-level skills are developed best in an environment in which students have to take responsibility for all components of their studies.

    This often means replacing "traditional" lectures (which arguably promote passivity) with directed self-study and group problem solving tasks, in which there is planty of feedback in order that students have incentive to engage with their work.

    Modules for 2023-24

    Animal Behaviour

    Module code: LIFE211

    Role: Teaching

    CHALLENGES IN GLOBAL HEALTH

    Module code: IEEL018

    Role: Module Co-ordinator

    EVOLUTION

    Module code: LIFE103

    Role: Module Co-ordinator

    Essential Skills for the Life Sciences 2

    Module code: LIFE223

    Role: Teaching

    Human and Clinical Genetics

    Module code: LIFE321

    Role: Teaching

    MOLECULAR AND MEDICAL GENETICS

    Module code: LIFE208

    Role: Teaching