HEA Senior Fellowship: getting started

‘Senior Fellow’ has always struck me as a singularly inappropriate term. Advance HE (formerly the Higher Education Academy) insist that its different categories of Fellowship award (Associate, Senior and Principal, as well as Fellowship) are not ‘levels’ but merely descriptors: that is, there is no hierarchy. I’m inclined to agree: it describes a different role, …

Who gets to be in the ‘collective’ of the university?

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Opposing lecture capture is dis/ableist. Period.

(but critiquing it is useful) A lot of lecturers worry about lecture recording and lecture capture. A survey from Huddersfield UCU highlighted a substantial number of negative beliefs by staff, many unsubstantiated by the research or the facts. For example, 73% of staff believed that attendance would go down as a result of lecture capture, …

Hello world!

I'm just starting out in the wonderful new world of Educational Development in higher education - that is, in helping those who teach at university to develop their teaching skills and the way they think about teaching and learning. I'm based at a UK university but always welcome international perspectives - unlike some in the UK …