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By kiera.obrien, 31 October, 2025

Empower LBGTQ+ people to be their authentic selves on campus with Rainbow Office Hours

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A simple, low-cost idea helped one university campus become a more welcoming space for members of the LGBTQ+ community. Here’s how it worked

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By Laura.Duckett, 31 October, 2025

How to support humanities PhD students with ethics applications

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As creative and digital research grow within the humanities, Josie Barnard explains how supervisors can help PhD students approach the ethics approval process thoughtfully and productively

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By Laura.Duckett, 31 October, 2025

The power of breakfast to boost student attendance

Learn how a free weekly breakfast initiative has strengthened student belonging, improved attendance and proved surprisingly easy to sustain on a small budget

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By miranda.prynne, 31 October, 2025

Put food sustainability on your university’s menu

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Practical steps for engaging students in food sustainability initiatives and fostering behaviour change across campus, which any higher education institution could take

By Eliza.Compton, 31 October, 2025

Lessons from first-time festival planners

Co-creating a large-scale, impactful public event can seem more like a ‘would love to’ than a ‘must’, particularly in the face of resource pressures or lack of an established culture or calendar. Here’s advice learned from developing a four-day festival from scratch

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By kiera.obrien, 30 October, 2025

Helping Black students thrive in art education

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How to make art school a welcoming, inclusive environment for Black students, and support them into artistic careers

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By Laura.Duckett, 30 October, 2025

Top business graduates lack one key skill – execution

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Top-performing graduates often struggle with execution in the workplace. Educators can change that by designing learning exercises that hone decision-making skills and resilience

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By Eliza.Compton, 30 October, 2025

What happened to creativity in the classroom?

When generative AI leads 150 students to submit the same ‘creative’ work, something is afoot in arts and humanities education. Here, Leah Henrickson and Luke Zaphir turn insights from cognitive science into ways to use AI to boost students’ creativity

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By miranda.prynne, 30 October, 2025

Campus talks: the role of universities as bastions of free speech and open debate in polarised times

An expert in constructive dialogue and a free speech campaigner explain how universities can nurture productive disagreement and uphold the principles of free speech and academic freedom in the face of growing polarisation

By kiera.obrien, 30 October, 2025

Build intellectual virtues in your business students by crossing disciplines

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Business leaders of the future need more than technical skills – they need to be well rounded individuals. Here’s how a faculty programme helped educators embed the qualities that underpin sound thinking into their teaching

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By miranda.prynne, 29 October, 2025

Support smaller businesses’ sustainability efforts through education

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For businesses to improve their sustainability, they first need to understand how. Here, Paula Whitehouse shares lessons from a programme specially developed to educate executives in environmental strategies

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By Laura.Duckett, 29 October, 2025

Bridging the digital knowledge gap between generations with podcasts

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Faced with students who seemed to know it all, one educator used podcasting to build engagement and intergenerational dialogue in a Social Skills in the Digital Age course

By kiera.obrien, 29 October, 2025

Support students’ mental health with bespoke workshops

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With mental health concerns and student suicide rates increasing, a partnership with St John Ambulance offered a practical way to support students to ask for help when they need it. Here’s how it worked

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Guidance on teaching design and delivery

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By Eliza.Compton, 24 October, 2025

Be my guest speaker

Incorporating guest speaker presentations as part of work-integrated learning helps university educators as well as students, writes Temesgen Kifle. It can enhance teaching practice, build stronger connections with industry, and keep courses up to date with evolving workforce needs

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By kiera.obrien, 24 September, 2025

Integrating the university library into teaching and learning: why and how

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Where is the library positioned within your institutional structure? Steve Briggs makes the case for integrating it into the teaching and learning unit

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By kiera.obrien, 16 September, 2025

Let’s teach students to disagree well

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Conflict is an integral part of life, building better communication and understanding of each other’s differences. Equip students with the tools to do it well

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By Laura.Duckett, 15 August, 2024

Relieve student boredom by ‘activating’ lectures

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How lecturers can ‘activate’ traditional lectures to relieve student boredom and stimulate learning

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Lessons in how to improve university assessment and quality assurance

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By Laura.Duckett, 20 October, 2025

From grading grind to peace of mind: preventing midterm marking meltdown

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With clear communication, focused feedback, time management strategies and smart use of technology, educators can make their marking more efficient, sustainable and impactful for students

By kiera.obrien, 11 August, 2025

‘Don’t be sorry, just declare it’: safeguarding the integrity of the essay

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With the advent of GenAI, higher education has pronounced the essay dead. Benito Cao argues there are signs of life – and explains how to protect its integrity

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By Laura.Duckett, 14 July, 2025

Is the dissertation dead? If so, what are the alternatives?

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Dissertation alternatives, such as capstone projects and applied group-based projects, could better prepare graduates for their future careers. Discover what these might look like

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By Eliza.Compton, 3 June, 2025

‘This is going to hurt’: taking the pain out of group assessment

Group assessment can be seen as unfair and unwieldy, but it also teaches essential skills such as teamwork and collaboration. We owe it to our students to frame it in a way that allows them to see its benefits

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Insight on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education

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By Eliza.Compton, 15 October, 2025

AI as an access tool for neurodiverse and international staff

Used transparently and ethically, GenAI can level the playing field and lower the cognitive load of repetitive tasks for admin staff, student support and teachers

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By Eliza.Compton, 29 September, 2025

Assessment tasks that support human skills

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Assignments that focus on exploration, analysis and authenticity offer a road map for university assessment that incorporates AI while retaining its rigour and human elements

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By kiera.obrien, 26 September, 2025

What your students are thinking about artificial intelligence

GenAI has been quickly adopted by students, but the consequences of using it as a shortcut could be grave. A study into how students think about and use GenAI offers insights into how teaching might adapt

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By kiera.obrien, 22 September, 2025

Turn AI from a magic box into a tool to be interrogated

Instead of ‘ban it or embrace it’, the AI Collaboration Toolkit offers a way for educators to frame AI as a collaborator, with ethical guard rails built in and an emphasis on the student’s thinking. Here’s how it works

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Academic publishing tips to help with everything from pitches to peer review

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By Eliza.Compton, 26 June, 2024

Strategies for writing a PhD dissertation: write before you’re ‘ready’

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Reading isn’t writing, and knowing about your topic isn’t writing. So, what should graduate students do to get started and make steady progress? Monique Dufour suggests practising well before it’s time to write the thesis or dissertation

By Eliza.Compton, 21 March, 2024

Open research: what is it, really?

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Open research principles aim to foster openness, transparency, replicability and accountability, writes Steven Vidovic. Here, he offers a fresh perspective along with practices to establish trust in research and foster collaborations and future opportunities

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By miranda.prynne, 6 February, 2025

Campus talks: a brighter future for academic publishing

Hear from two academics who are developing publishing solutions that encourage and underpin quality research practices and improve access to scholarly work

By Eliza.Compton, 30 January, 2024

The double-edged sword of open access publishing

Inclusivity is seen as a benefit of open access publishing, but is this an illusion? Here, William E. Donald asks questions about who pays and what counts, and offers scenarios for a fairer journal model

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Career advice for academics and higher education professionals

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By kiera.obrien, 13 October, 2025

Why employability gaps widen as academic identity deepens

The more tightly researchers’ identities bind to the university, the less ready they often feel for life beyond it. Naming two modes of working, depth and outbound, can help universities close the employability gap

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By Laura.Duckett, 5 September, 2025

Managing upwards in higher education, part 2: relational and personal boundary skills

The second in a two-part series focuses on protecting your integrity, building goodwill across your institution and setting boundaries around your time and availability to create sustainable, constructive relationships with your manager

By kiera.obrien, 5 August, 2025

An early career researcher’s guide to impact

Research impact can often be reduced to an administrative task, yet looking past metrics and seeing your work come to life can be incredibly rewarding. Here’s how to connect with the ‘why’ of your research

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By Eliza.Compton, 7 May, 2025

A survival guide for academic department leaders

Administrators walk a line between support for faculty and accountability for performance, writes Saleem H. Ali. Here, he offers six tips for building good governance and legacy

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Strategies for advancing diversity and inclusion in higher education

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By Laura.Duckett, 22 October, 2025

Snails, Jaffa Cakes and rubber ducks: making outreach playful

Outreach initiatives like ‘School Tasking’ show how academics can break down barriers, engage young learners, and make higher education feel accessible rather than intimidating

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By Laura.Duckett, 23 October, 2025

Foster allyship to support marginalised groups in higher education

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How to initiate change, create safe spaces for difficult conversations and nurture a culture of allyship in your department

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By Eliza.Compton, 12 September, 2025

Navigating conflicting DEI needs for the benefit of all

Equity, diversity and inclusion work is complicated when one group’s rights to dignity and privacy challenge another’s sense of comfort and security. Here, Cynthia Williams offers strategies to address these tensions

By kiera.obrien, 8 October, 2025

Show, not just say, that your institution is a place for everyone

Put belonging at the heart of your diversity and inclusion strategy. Here’s how a fund for inclusive projects put money and strategy behind words

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What international students need to flourish

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By Laura.Duckett, 13 September, 2024

Use student-centred learning strategies to motivate international business students

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Support your international students by incorporating strategies that promote student-centred learning into your teaching

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By Laura.Duckett, 10 September, 2025

Study abroad coordinators need more support

Study abroad academic coordinators manage everything from paperwork to pastoral care, yet their roles are often undervalued and under-resourced. Vasilica Mocanu explores the challenges they face and solutions to them

By Laura.Duckett, 21 May, 2025

Tackling accent bias: the ‘last acceptable form of discrimination’

Accent bias undermines Black international students’ confidence and belonging in UK universities. Institutions must tackle this exclusion through awareness, training, and a proactive celebration of linguistic diversity

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By Laura.Duckett, 12 December, 2024

We need to get to know our international students better

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To create inclusive classrooms for international students, we must address bias and challenge assumptions. Here’s how

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Campus brings together expert advice from academics, university staff, and our Campus+ partners. Covering key areas of higher education - from teaching and research to sustainability and access - our spotlight guides, written articles, short videos and podcasts help educators, researchers and administrators navigate challenges and drive change within their universities.