The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Linkage Grants were established to enable the synthesis, exploration and high-impact dissemination of interdisciplinary SoTL research. This pilot funding program supported the formation of interdisciplinary teams of SoTL researchers inquiring into fundamental questions in higher education that benefit from investigation in multiple pedagogical and curricular contexts.
The SoTL Linkage Grants were jointly created by the offices of the Provost and Vice President Academic (VPA) UBC Vancouver, and the Vice President of Research and Innovation (VPRI) UBC Vancouver, together with the Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISoTL).
SoTL Linkage teams are networks of SoTL researchers spanning multiple disciplines, investigating a similar or complementary research question in their own pedagogical contexts. Teams engage in collaborative research activities including synthesizing results, performing new studies, and disseminating interdisciplinary findings, thus affording a higher SoTL impact than would otherwise be possible.