Dr Nicky Morgan's Outputs (4)

Analysing the effectiveness of digital escape rooms on enhancing student experience and knowledge acquisition – A microbiology-based case (2025)
Journal Article

Active and gamified teaching methods, such as digital escaperooms, effectively enhance student outcomes. However, current work in this areais highly specialised and lacks translational capability across sectors, withlimited data associated with key h... Read More about Analysing the effectiveness of digital escape rooms on enhancing student experience and knowledge acquisition – A microbiology-based case.

A physiology digital escape room enhances physiological data analysis skills and student experience (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Active and gamified teaching methods have received significant interest within higher education over the past decade, with an increased push from higher education institutions to more actively engage students with their education. One example of acti... Read More about A physiology digital escape room enhances physiological data analysis skills and student experience.

Mini-capstone projects to develop active laboratory collaboration in first-year biomedicine students (2025)
Other

Studies have shown an increase in loneliness within the student population, causing an increase in mental health conditions on commencing higher education (Diehl et al., 2018, McIntyre et al., 2018). Increased psychological distress is associated wit... Read More about Mini-capstone projects to develop active laboratory collaboration in first-year biomedicine students.

Winogradsky Column Experiment: Setup presentation and methods (2025)
Other

Introducing microbial ecosystems to university students can be a difficult topic without visual aids. Winogradsky columns have been used extensively to demonstrate microbial diversity in soil environments. The soil provides a wide variety of nutrient... Read More about Winogradsky Column Experiment: Setup presentation and methods.