Reconciling the Competing Demands of Teaching and Research: Reflecting on the Durham experience

Research and teaching can be seen either as competitive or as complementary. The geography department at Durham can be thought of as 'a research led department that teaches'. Nevertheless, it is a department that remains strongly committed to excellence in teaching as well as research and achieved the highest ratings for both teaching and research quality in the most recent national assessments. Some of the ways in which teaching and research have been made compatible and synergies created between them are discussed in the article.

Keywords:

• Excellence
• Long-term Thinking
• Research Culture
• Synergies
• Effective Time Management