EFFECT Grant for Developing Effective Team Work Framework

THE PROJECT

In 2021, I was a part of a team from the Faculty of Engineering that received a $20000 grant to develop a framework and resources around Teamwork. I was invited to be part of the team by the chief investigators due to my experience in Teamwork practices in my courses. 

The project aims to introduce teamwork systemically in non-design courses at scale by collecting and studying existing models available in select courses in the Faculties of Engineering and Science. The project also aims to develop a simple rubric that assesses the performance of students in teamwork and can be used to provide constructive feedback to the students. By combining knowledge from these courses a common framework can be implemented in select courses in T3 2021 and T1 2022. We have already obtained ethics approval (HC210223; approval period – 27 Apr 2021 to 26 Apr 2026), so that input and insights from students, tutors, academics, and industry can be used to develop the framework. The resources produced from this project can be adapted by anyone at UNSW and the wider community. 

THE TEAM

  • Chief Investigators (2)
    School of Chemical Engineering
    School of Electrical Engineering
     
  • Primary Investigators (3)
    School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences (me)
    School of Chemical Engineering
    School of Electrical Engineering
     
  • Project Officer (1)
    PhD Student from the School of Electrical Engineering
     
  • Students as Partners (7)
    Undergraduate students From Science and Engineering

PROJECT OUTCOMES

  • A framework for implementing teamwork skills in non-design courses and within the UNSW 3+ model
  • A simple rubric for peer/mentor assessments of teamwork
  • Modules for teamwork training
  • Greater awareness for students of their teamwork skills, thereby strengthening these skills and improving their employability
  • Submission to a Q1 journal (ex, IEEE Transactions on Education, European Journal of Engineering Education, Advances in Engineering Education).

MY ROLE

Edit and provide feedback for the grant application, share group work resources from my courses, attend and participate in weekly meetings, meet with 2 students from the science faculty regularly to develop teamwork resources for my courses, provide feedback on the resources produced by all the students, implement the resources into my courses. 

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