Hearts and minds: advice for academics

By Eliza.Compton, 10 February, 2025
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Teaching and learning take passion and finding funding can feel like a courtship, right? This collection of resources for Valentine’s Day covers many things academics love: from research collaboration, faculty mobility, grant applications and interdisciplinarity to teaching with empathy, managing group work and soft skills.
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Teaching and learning take passion and finding funding can feel like a courtship, right? This collection of resources for Valentine’s Day covers many things academics love: from research collaboration, faculty mobility, grant applications and interdisciplinarity to teaching with empathy, managing group work and soft skills.
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By Eliza.Compton, 28 August, 2023

Teaching from the heart in 13 steps

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Engaging your students through empathy requires teachers to share their own stories and vulnerabilities and foster a safe space for learning. Here, Beiting He offers 13 ways to create a caring classroom
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 14 February, 2024

Heart skills to future-proof students

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These 10 skills might sound as soft as the centre of a Valentine’s Day chocolate, but they are essential for the careers and employability of our students, writes Elizabeth Reid Boyd
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3minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 30 November, 2023

Love and money: why the search for funding is like romance

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Funding is a relationship of sorts. You and your research project funder will enter into a finite symbiosis. It’s a joyful, exciting, uncomfortable and occasionally scary co-dependency, writes Laura Berrisford
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3minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 13 November, 2023

How to lose a grant in 10 ways

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Want your funding application to be rejected? Have we got some advice for you. But, seriously, don’t do these things and you might just find your perfect grant match
By Eliza.Compton, 2 August, 2024

What can universities do to support academic couples?

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What elements can make a university stand out as being partner-friendly? Here are ways for institutions to support academics in dual-career partnerships – and boost their ability to attract and retain the best talent
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4minutes
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