Heroes and Cultural Identity Project
Heroes of Stevenson College Edinburgh students: Project year 3 (2008-2009)
Science Degree Access Course students
Introduction by Biology lecturer John O'Neill:
The
Science Degree Access course is for students who are over sixteen but
with no upper age limit. Students on this one year course are required
to submit a written investigative report as part of their assessed course
work. This provides an ideal opportunity to integrate the work of the
Heroes Project into the science curriculum. The title they have been
set is "Heroes of science and technology, past and present - a
study of how the work of pioneering scientists has benefitted society"
Here are the students' summaries, presentations and reports of the scientists they chose :
(Click on the S for summary, P for Presentation or R for Report)
| Hero | Presented by | |||
| Marshall and Warren | Dorota Rzetelska | S | P | R |
| Usha Varanasi | Ankit Patel | S | ||
| Ludwik Hirszfeld | Anna Slodownik | S | P | R |
| Arthur Tansley | Caroline Madden | S | P | R |
| William Fenical | Craig Wood | S | P | R |
| Maarten Schmidt | Eden McCann | S | ||
| Gregor Mendel | Junko Rielly | S | P | R |
| Louis Pasteur | Kelly Robinson | S | ||
| Cornelius van Drebbel | Laura Mears | S | P | R |
| Edwards and Steptoe | Nicole Allison | S | P | R |
| Andreas Vesalius | Sarah Tait | S | ||
| James Barry | Stacey Jackson | S | P | R |
| Sean Casey | Tracy Tidbury | S | P | R |
| Hans Adolf Krebs | Clare Mckenna | S | P | R |
| Christiaan Barnard | Burmoint Mckrill | S | P | |
| Marie Curie | Qiu Feng Weng | S | P | R |
| Neils Ryberg Finsen | Saloni Gosain | P | R |
Occupational Health and Safety students
Introduction by Trade Union Studies lecturer Penny Gower:
Our
Trade Union courses are for people of all ages who are in employment.
Students come from a variety of workplaces – offices, factories,
prisons, colleges and many others. The length of the courses range from
a few days to a whole year. Students study how to represent workers
and improve their health and safety. Our approach to 'heroes' is rather
different, perhaps, to others in the project. For us, the real heroes
are the representatives themselves. These are ‘working class heroes’
(the title of John Lennon’s song). Statistics show that where a
trained safety representative is in a workplace, accidents and work-related
ill health decline by 50%.
Stress within my company:
Report
and Presentation
- written by David Mackie
Heroes from other years
Read about some of the heroes nominated by students from Stevenson College Edinburgh in other years of the project:
