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By Eliza.Compton, 20 December, 2025

Co-creation as an alternative for engaging students

Co-creation through experiential learning outside the classroom space – working abroad, in the field, in a lab – is fantastic but not always feasible. Can’t leave the classroom? Ed Berger explains how educators can still spark engagement

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By kiera.obrien, 19 December, 2025

Three ways to turn students into active partners in their education

Create a supportive learning community with student co-creation. Here are three ways to help students take the reins

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By Laura.Duckett, 19 December, 2025

How to co-design learning and assessments with students and GenAI

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Guidance on bringing together academic expertise, students’ lived experience and GenAI’s creative capacity to co-design genuinely inclusive, collaborative, and engaging learning experiences

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By Eliza.Compton, 19 December, 2025

Teaching students to assess their work and why it matters beyond university

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Peer feedback and self-assessment build habits that extend into professional life. They teach students to ask questions such as: ‘What do others see in my work?’ and ‘What did I miss?’ to improve performance, Elissar Gerges explains

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By Laura.Duckett, 18 December, 2025

How to model good academic practice

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By modelling good practice in your own teaching, you can help students build confidence, work more effectively and set habits that support both academic and personal success. Here’s how

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By kiera.obrien, 18 December, 2025

How to evolve with GenAI: an educator’s guide

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The launch of GenAI has prompted a new stage of experimentation for university education. Here’s how to explore and refine, finding out what works and what doesn’t

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By Eliza.Compton, 18 December, 2025

Sticky labels: why language shapes identity (and how to say better things)

The words we use in creative education – and the ones we don’t – shape how students see themselves. David Thompson explores how labels affect self-image and how university educators can shift language to build creative confidence

By kiera.obrien, 17 December, 2025

Support medical students to form their identity as doctors

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Develop well-rounded, people-focused medical professionals by focusing on soft skills, alongside clinical knowledge. Here’s how case-based learning can help

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By Laura.Duckett, 17 December, 2025

Practice makes professional

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Well-designed simulations can give future public service practitioners safe opportunities to collaborate across disciplines and build skills vital for supporting vulnerable people

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By Eliza.Compton, 17 December, 2025

Four common arguments for acknowledging AI use (and why they are wrong)

Educators may want AI to be used well or to go away entirely, write Chloe Salisbury and Luke Zaphir. Here, they take on a central piece of AI lore and offer ways forward

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By kiera.obrien, 16 December, 2025

A practical guide to using games in university teaching

What is game-oriented learning, what criteria must games follow to have true educational value and how to use them in your own teaching? Find out here

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By Laura.Duckett, 16 December, 2025

How to reclaim humanity in the AI classroom

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As GenAI changes how students study and complete assessments, higher education educators must focus on metacognition, clarity and connection, says Patrice Seuwou

By Eliza.Compton, 16 December, 2025

Looking for our environmental future in the poetic past

How can studying a poem or writing a story give students the skills to imagine a healthy planetary future? Stephanie Jones explains the link between literature and environmental literacy

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By kiera.obrien, 17 December, 2025

Support medical students to form their identity as doctors

Develop well-rounded, people-focused medical professionals by focusing on soft skills, alongside clinical knowledge. Here’s how case-based learning can help

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By kiera.obrien, 16 December, 2025

A practical guide to using games in university teaching

What is game-oriented learning, what criteria must games follow to have true educational value and how to use them in your own teaching? Find out here

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By Eliza.Compton, 16 December, 2025

Looking for our environmental future in the poetic past

How can studying a poem or writing a story give students the skills to imagine a healthy planetary future? Stephanie Jones explains the link between literature and environmental literacy

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By kiera.obrien, 15 December, 2025

Weave interdisciplinarity into the identity of your humanities department

Create flexibility within department structures to allow interdisciplinary work and collaboration to flourish. Here’s how

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Lessons in how to improve university assessment and quality assurance

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By Eliza.Compton, 17 December, 2025

Four common arguments for acknowledging AI use (and why they are wrong)

Educators may want AI to be used well or to go away entirely, write Chloe Salisbury and Luke Zaphir. Here, they take on a central piece of AI lore and offer ways forward

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By Eliza.Compton, 12 December, 2025

In a world of short attention spans, the best story wins

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When students become storytellers, rather than passive recipients of knowledge, learning is more memorable. And a little help from GenAI can get them started

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By Laura.Duckett, 27 August, 2025

How interactive orals transform assessment – and how to implement them

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Interactive orals shift testing from memorisation to meaningful dialogue, reducing anxiety and building confidence in diverse learners. Read how they increase inclusivity and how to implement them across disciplines

By Eliza.Compton, 4 December, 2025

Assessment needs to grow up: what process and imperfection mean for higher education

Rather than railing against AI, educators could see this moment as an overdue correction and redesign assessment around what matters: the process by which humans think, revise and learn

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

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By kiera.obrien, 18 December, 2025

How to evolve with GenAI: an educator’s guide

The launch of GenAI has prompted a new stage of experimentation for university education. Here’s how to explore and refine, finding out what works and what doesn’t

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5minutes

By Laura.Duckett, 16 December, 2025

How to reclaim humanity in the AI classroom

As GenAI changes how students study and complete assessments, higher education educators must focus on metacognition, clarity and connection, says Patrice Seuwou

By kiera.obrien, 10 December, 2025

A university blueprint for teaching with GenAI

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How a human-centred approach to embedding GenAI ensures the tool enhances human reasoning, rather than replacing it, institution-wide

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By kiera.obrien, 12 December, 2025

Two ways to embed transferable skills in university teaching

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Students need the skills to thrive in an uncertain job market. Positioning GenAI as a study buddy and student-led business clinics can help develop them

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

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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 Eliza.Compton, 31 October, 2024

Embracing linguistic diversity and equity in global academic publishing

English operates as a gatekeeper in academia, determining who can access and contribute to the most prestigious platforms of knowledge production. We must create spaces where other languages can thrive, write three European academics

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By kiera.obrien, 30 May, 2024

Want to foster community and give your students a voice? Start blogging

From educators to students, blogging is a vital social infrastructure for the higher education community. Michael Taster and Rosemary Deller offer their tips

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By Eliza.Compton, 2 November, 2023

What is your academic writing temperament?

Many early career researchers struggle to write enough. The key is to move away from an abstract notion of productivity and towards a productive writing process, explains Rachael Cayley. Here, she offers questions to help ECRs find their writing rhythm

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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 Eliza.Compton, 15 December, 2025

How compassionate spaces support career development for graduate teaching assistants

Bringing GTAs together in a safe space not only develops career identity, it fosters belonging, respect and care. Here, Kristy Campbell explains what a reading group offers those in the space between student and staff

By Laura.Duckett, 11 December, 2025

How teachers can learn to lead

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Success in the classroom doesn’t automatically make you a good manager. Garth Elzerman offers advice on building trust with the colleagues you lead

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By Eliza.Compton, 9 September, 2025

Why researchers should consider a narrative CV

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The narrative CV moves away from the usual academic metrics of publications and grants and allows university researchers to tell the story of their journey and impact. This guide offers practical tips for writing one

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Strategies for advancing diversity and inclusion in higher education

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By Eliza.Compton, 27 March, 2025

What trauma-informed practice is not

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Before trauma-informed care can be the norm across all areas of the university, academic and professional staff need to understand what it is. Here, three academics debunk myths and demystify best practice

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By Eliza.Compton, 10 December, 2025

‘Universities need to be better prepared to handle anti-religious hate’

How can institutions navigate a landscape where some religious communities see equity, diversity and inclusion efforts as an essential safeguard, while others view these initiatives as an overreach?

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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 miranda.prynne, 8 December, 2025

Indigenous voices in higher education

How to bring Indigenous expertise and experience into university teaching, research, leadership and student support

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What international students need to flourish

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By kiera.obrien, 11 December, 2025

Tips to support international students’ mental health

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Studying abroad may seem exciting, but many students can suffer from social isolation. Here’s how to offer support

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By Eliza.Compton, 2 December, 2025

Far from home, but not alone: peer mentoring to ease culture shock for international students

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Upper-year student mentors can provide freshmen mentees with practical tools to settle into a new environment, manage their mental health, navigate the workload and stay grounded throughout their medical studies

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By kiera.obrien, 1 December, 2025

Diversify university mental health services beyond CBT

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With the number of students experiencing mental health issues rising, CBT is being applied as a one-size-fits-all solution. Here’s how to branch out into other approaches

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By Laura.Duckett, 20 June, 2024

It’s all in the presentation: how to engage international students during lectures

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The visual dimension of lectures and seminars can create additional challenges for international students, but simple strategies can help in creating useful presentations that support learning

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By miranda.prynne, 11 December, 2025

Campus talks: how to make co-creation work in your teaching

Find out why and how to collaborate with students to ‘co-create’ elements of their learning, from a leading expert on co-creation in higher education

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By Eliza.Compton, 27 November, 2025

Campus talks: the real-world power of soft skills

How do universities ensure their curricula meet the demands from industry, government and students for career-ready graduates equipped with vital transferable skills? Three experts explain how institutions are working to align higher education and skills development

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80minutes

By Eliza.Compton, 13 November, 2025

Campus talks: why teaching with artificial intelligence is ‘like a giant field experiment’

THE Award-winning educationalist Jenny Moffett talks about using AI so it supports learning rather than risks deskilling students, dealing with uncertainty in the classroom and the value of boredom

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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

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