Campus Wellbeing

UniServe Science was originally set up in 1994 with some Federal Government funding as a clearinghouse for information about new technologies in tertiary science teaching. Since that time it has changed its focus and currently it is funded by The University of Sydney through the Faculties of the Sciences to expand its activities to better serve its clients. UniServe Science now has two main activities: • Supporting tertiary science teaching, both within the Faculties of the Sciences at the University of Sydney and the broader community • Serving science and mathematics teaching in NSW Schools and the broader community. The various sections of our website contain information about, and links to resources for a wide range of topics across the science disciplines suitable for staff teaching from kindergarten through to tertiary level. Ours is a dynamic website and information is constantly being updated and amended and we welcome feedback and contributions from educators as we continue...

Many university academics spend time and money attending national and international conferences each year. This initial longitudinal study seeks to investigate the perceived and actual benefits and outcomes specifically from delegates attending the 2009 UniServe Science Conference. This is a relatively small three day annual conference for science and mathematics educators. Data was collected from an online survey immediately after the event and another survey six months later. This revealed information concerning the demographics of the delegates and sought detail on the synergies and collaborations, articles and grants emerging in the short term from such a conference. Networking emerged as the main benefit along with the opportunity to find out about new ideas to implement in their own teaching and research. Delegates indicated they had used ideas from the conference and shared these with others. However there was a decline in actual submissions to journals compared with the expe...