{"id":18876,"date":"2016-07-18T09:09:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T13:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/?p=18876"},"modified":"2021-08-13T10:11:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T14:11:41","slug":"bringing-research-classroom-spotlight-martin-geiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2016\/bringing-research-classroom-spotlight-martin-geiger\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing research to the classroom: Spotlight on Martin Geiger"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Emily Cook, TLS staff writer <\/em><\/p>\n

In one of Prof. Martin Geiger\u2019s classes you might find yourself learning from emerging researchers via Skype, or peer-reviewing more senior students\u2019 papers. But whatever you do, it all comes back to research.<\/p>\n

Geiger joined Carleton\u2019s Department of Political Science and Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies in 2014. Since then, he co-founded\u00a0Mobility & Politics<\/a>, a transnational research collective, and was awarded a 2016 Capital Educators\u2019 Award for the significant impact he\u2019s had on student learning both in the classroom and through his extensive research work. He says he always tries to extend his teaching outside the classroom.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy teaching doesn\u2019t go without my research and my research doesn\u2019t go without my teaching, both are completely entwined,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

In his classes, Geiger says he tries to make the subject as interesting and interactive as possible. This includes breaking larger classes into smaller groups, and using tools like Pinterest, Skype and videos to engage students who learn differently.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so that they have another way of expressing themselves,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Geiger says he\u2019s always looking for ways to integrate undergrads with grad students so they can learn from each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea is to bring in MA students to the undergrad classroom and by doing this, to encourage and stimulate more people to go down the research path,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

He also does something that\u2019s mostly unheard of: bringing in BA students to graduate courses to give peer-to-peer feedback on MA or even PhD students\u2019 work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t really care about undergraduate versus graduate, I see the person,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Above and beyond that, Geiger says he works alongside students to publish papers with them \u2013 whether they\u2019re a graduate student or not.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a hierarchy with students,\u201d he says, \u201cbut I try to keep that as flat as possible. I see my role as being the facilitator and senior collaborator.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is where Mobility & Politics comes in. The collective brings together more than 70 emerging scholars from across the globe to collaborate in research.<\/p>\n

When he won the Capital Educators\u2019 Award, Geiger says he was very happy, but felt the award was more representative of that collaborative work inside and outside his classes.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me the award is actually for my students. Because only they make it possible that I can do these things. Without their excitement and commitment, it would not work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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