Overview

The Hamburg Center for University Teaching and Learning (HUL) integrates higher education research and offers for educational practice at the UHH under one roof. Research at the HUL is therefore always associated with the transfer of knowledge or materials into teaching, learning, qualification and university development practices. Who the research is relevant for and how the results can be used depends on the specific research area. The research areas at HUL are therefore described in a way that includes not only specific research projects but also the respective transfer perspective.

The transfer perspective varies and depends on whether the research area can be classified as methodological and/or thematic:

• Theoretical research aimed at the further development of Design-Based Research or empirical research aimed at a better understanding of the practices of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning primarily serves a methodological purpose. In these examples, a more integrated research-to-practice transfer is an explicit goal.
• Empirical research on student success or empirical and design-oriented studies on the use of generative AI in university teaching focus on specific themes. In these thematically oriented examples, transfer occurs through the practical use of the results and/or research-based interventions.