Peer Learning

The Peer Team

We are a team of eight student interns, four GTAs and one facilitator whose purpose is to support, embed and develop peer learning across the university. We are constantly working to develop our experitse in all things peer, create resources and assist with any peer project that is currently happening or wants to happen at the University of Glasgow.

We can help you design a peer project, and provide advice, resources and support to help you run an initiative. We are also working to create a centralised training training programme and Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) within SLD in the upcoming months.

For any questions and consultations, you can email or book an appointment with our Peer Learning Facilitator.      

Dr Aleix Tura Vecino

Peer-Learning Facilitator

I am the Peer-Learning Facilitator in Student Learning Development (SDL) at the University of Glasgow. My role involves the enhancement of student academic performance and wellbeing through the fostering of student communities and multiple student-led activities. I lead a team of GTAs and student interns to help develop and implement peer-to-peer learning and support initiatives across all four Collages at the University of Glasgow.

Our team has expertise in, and is interested in hearing about, all things peer: from peer-learning groups and peer-assessment to mentoring and students’ institutional sense of belonging and identity. Besides helping the University of Glasgow’s Schools run their peer-learning and peer-support projects, we are working to develop a mentorship training course and a centralised Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) programme within SLD.

My academic background is in English Literature, and I supervise some dissertations and lecture across modules in this programme in conjunction with my SLD work. My research focuses short fiction theory, identity politics, and the anthology as a literary form. I have published articles in all these topics, and I am currently writing my first monograph, provisionally titled The Short Story Anthology and Women’s Writing, for Routledge. I am also an assistant editor of Short Fiction in Theory and Practice and a member and media administrator of the European Network for Short Fiction Research (ENSFR).