Meeting reports

Learning is productive when people with acommon interest come together. The second2-day training event to discuss EducationalResearch in the Biosciences was a collaborationbetween the Biochemical Society and theAnatomical Society. Twenty-five educators(from the UK, Ireland, and the USA) assembledto discuss how to design, evaluate, and publishnew research projects in bioscience education.The workshops were built around collaborativedesign through group discussions, whichprovided an environment to facilitate researchcollaborations and share knowledge onspecific topics of interest. Facilitators sharedtheir experiences and guided the attendees indeveloping their research ideas. The interactionsbetween facilitators and participants wereextremely productive, resulting in learning forboth groups.