This issue of CDTL Brief on Balancing Teaching and Research discusses the delicate relationship between teaching and research and offers tips on how to balance them optimally.
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| Strengthening the Teaching-research Nexus |
| Assistant Professor Lionel Wee |
| Department of English Language & Literature |
| In the study of language planning, particularly when looking at how languages are accommodated in multilingual societies, it has been observed that language policies typically adopt a strategy of ‘unilingualism’, where they attempt to carve out unique spaces for individual languages. Continue reading |
| Balancing Teaching & Research: The Struggles of a New Assistant Professor |
| Dr Wee Su-Lin, Valerie |
| Department of English Language & Literature |
| When CDTL first approached me to share my experiences on balancing teaching and research, I must admit to no small measure of surprise. While I have a fair amount of experience with struggling to effectively combine my commitment to teaching and research, I cannot claim to have discovered any definitive solution to the challenges I still continue to face. Continue reading |
| My Ride on the MRT: Marriage between Research and Teaching |
| Assistant Professor Low Boon Chuan |
| Department of Biological Sciences |
| Like all others who have chosen their jobs with passion and are geared towards giving their best to the companies or sectors they serve, educators bear unique societal roles in helping to shape the country’s young minds from pre-school to the higher levels. As the level of education rises, so does the level of complexity and emergence of new knowledge we want to see being imparted to our students. Continue reading |
| Research/ Writing Groups |
| Associate Professor John Whalen-Bridge |
| Department of English Language & Literature |
| One stubborn problem for lecturers at NUS is the balancing of teaching and research. As one might always do a bit more to prepare for a class, and as many other demands on one’s time can arise during a semester, many feel it is difficult to block out time for research and writing, especially during term. Continue reading |
| Integrating Research into Teaching |
| Dr Adekunle Olusola Adeyeye |
| Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering |
| It is a popular belief that research enhances teaching, though such a claim is debatable. Given that research is largely a problem-solving process, and one of the aims of teaching in engineering classes is to imbue in the students the ability to solve problems, it is obvious, in this instance that there are strong links between teaching and research. Continue reading |