Campus talks: the higher education podcast

Hear academics and university leaders reflect on their professional journeys and address some of the biggest questions facing higher education today. The Campus podcast gets under the skin of the issues and individuals defining the future of teaching, research, EDI, digital transformation and sustainability in the academy.

By sara.custer, 13 April, 2023

THE podcast: how to deal with the legacy of empire in higher education

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Podcast discussing building resilience and protecting well-being among university staff and students

Hear from a historian who sees decolonisation as a by-product of his scholarship and a mathematician who is using original sources to teach the global history of the discipline

By sara.custer, 8 March, 2023

THE podcast: how to navigate HE as a woman of colour

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To mark International Women’s Day, we spoke with two female academics about their journey through higher education and the biases and assumptions they have overcome

By sara.custer, 16 February, 2023

THE podcast: academia and activism

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Three academics share their experiences of using their research and teaching for social justice aims

By sara.custer, 19 January, 2023

THE podcast: career advice, LGBTQ+ in the academy and public speaking tips

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Hear from Ray Crossman, an out university president living with HIV in the US, about his career path, and Brian Bloch, a presentation and communication expert, on how to improve your public-speaking skills

By sara.custer, 7 December, 2022

THE podcast: what makes a good higher education leader?

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A leadership expert and university president discuss how the requirements of the job have changed and what type of leader the current moment calls for

By sara.custer, 25 November, 2022

THE podcast: an interview with Ruth Simmons, president of Prairie View A&M

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The first African American president of Brown University, Simmons speaks about her pioneering work to research Brown’s historical links to slavery, the future of affirmative action, and how to get more people that look like her into university leadership

By sara.custer, 15 November, 2022

THE podcast: breaking down barriers with research and student-led campaigns

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Winners of the Times Higher Education 2021 Awards discuss how their research and student-led campaigns navigate difficult and taboo topics

By sara.custer, 27 October, 2022

THE podcast: is AI in higher education worth the hype?

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We may be a long way from understanding exactly how higher education can harness AI and machine learning’s great potential safely, but this episode's guests say that continuing to test and explore it is the only way to make progress

By sara.custer, 29 September, 2022

THE podcast: teaching 101 tips from your peers

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In this episode of the THE Campus podcast, we feature short tips from university educators around the world, forming a mini teaching community offering advice from how to personalise learning to what types of pedagogy you should know about

By sara.custer, 15 September, 2022

THE podcast: how can universities tackle misinformation?

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Just providing a degree isn’t enough. Through their research, community engagement and teaching, universities can do much more to tackle misinformation.

Campus talks: the higher education podcast