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UPDATES on all things T&L Current favourite: Contemplative Academy: https://www.thecontemplativeacademy.com/ #159, ...
13/08/2026

UPDATES on all things T&L

Current favourite: Contemplative Academy: https://www.thecontemplativeacademy.com/

#159, July 2026: Zubeida Lowton is a Lecturer in Urban Studies in the Division of Urban Studies and Social Policy at the University of Glasgow. Her teaching contributions focus on the discipline of City Planning, an interdisciplinary field that emphasises sustainable development and the policy-making required to shape the growth of cities. In this post, Zubeida, considers the impact of role play as pedagogy: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/take5-159-reflecting-on-role-play-as-pedagogy-teaching-negotiation-and-decision-making-in-planning-education/

LDP Podcasts: Dr Silvina Bishopp-Martin of Canterbury Christ Church University - A Case Study Analysis of the Discursive and Institutional Complexities Underpinning Learning Development Professional Practice in Higher Education: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0xI7zk0IIhh69rid9H32tR?si=LDv2ZthyRleqt7JJpRCR-w&nd=1&dlsi=7c38a5007fad4fbc .

L&T Chatshow Podcasts
23.07.26: A reflection on 30 years of teaching and a few things learned along the way: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5A3dgW7RXsB7F7YIkr4eK6

Teaching in HE Podcasts
Jeff Kim shares how faculty can use video in our teaching and make it sustainable on episode 631: https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/a-faculty-guide-to-teaching-with-video-with-jeff-kim/

Beth Cougler Blom on how teaching and facilitation skills are built in life’s ordinary moments — noticing, saying hello first, and staying curious: https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/everyday-acts-of-facilitation-with-beth-cougler-blom/

SEDA: The Conversation Club: LinkedIn SoTL Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/16011114/

OTHER INTERESTING STUFF

IJSaP Vol 10 No 2 - July 2026: https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/ijsap/issue/view/595

From our Debbie Holley https://www.profdebbieholley.co.uk/post/talk-about-tech-looking-beyond-the-digital-native-myth

HEPI argue that we need to think better about how we review and develop HE: https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/07/25/weekend-reading-designing-for-the-future-not-just-the-crisis-a-framework-for-portfolio-review/

HEPI is recruiting our first Communications Manager. In this exciting role, you will help shape how we share our research, events and ideas. Visit this webpage for the full job description and details of how to apply. Deadline 26th July. This blog was kindly authored by Anila DeHart, Advisor and Res...

If you are an ALDinHE member, please join us tomorrow, 30.07.26, at 3pm, when Jen Hayes (London Metropolitan Universit...
29/07/2026

If you are an ALDinHE member, please join us tomorrow, 30.07.26, at 3pm, when Jen Hayes (London Metropolitan University) will give a poetry reading as part of the ALDinHE Summer Fair.

The poems attendees will hear emerged from Jen's doctoral research project rooted in Appreciative Inquiry and arts‑based methods, exploring the skills, identities, and lived experiences of Learning Developers from minoritised groups in higher education.

For more information and to book a ticket, please sign in to the ALDinHE website and visit the event page: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/product/events/voices-made-visible-a-reading-of-learning-development-poetry/

We look forward to seeing you there!

Jen Hayes (London Metropolitan University)

HEPI argue that we need to think better about how we review and develop HE:
25/07/2026

HEPI argue that we need to think better about how we review and develop HE:

HEPI is recruiting our first Communications Manager. In this exciting role, you will help shape how we share our research, events and ideas. Visit this webpage for the full job description and details of how to apply. Deadline 26th July. This blog was kindly authored by Anila DeHart, Advisor and Res...

UPDATES on all things T&L 20.07.26*** Current favourites: Islands of Hope is coming - 9-11 September 2026: https://www...
20/07/2026

UPDATES on all things T&L 20.07.26

*** Current favourites: Islands of Hope is coming - 9-11 September 2026: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/centre-for-innovation-in-education/conferences/islands-of-innovation/ and https://www.feelingsound.co/

#158 Grid of Life Tool to Promote Student Resilience and Wellbeing - Natalie Mack, Nottingham: Self-reflection exercise that helps students bring balance to their lives and boost resilience and general wellbeing: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/take5-158-grid-of-life-tool-to-promote-student-resilience-and-wellbeing/

L&T Chatshow Podcasts
08.07.26: Sara Desforges, Nooreen Makhani and Amaan Patel talking about collaborative online international learning (COIL): bringing groups of students together from different parts of the world to share ideas and work on a practical project, in this case related to law:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5rUibnx83aasHLq03lpnkB

15.07.26: Vuk Vasilyevic and gives an insight to the student experience of teaching and learning: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2IXRmpbpMmtK37c4lnGD6i

Teaching in HE Podcasts
07.07.26: Luke Green used Santa Claus as a metaphor for what that might tell us about grades: https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/the-story-of-grades-with-luke-green/

14.07.26: Anna Mills shares Peer and AI Review and Reflection, plus a layered approach to writing feedback on episode 630 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast: https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/feedback-voice-and-ai-in-the-writing-classroom-with-anna-mills/

SEDA:
07.07.26: The value of PGCerts: Via Virna Rossi & Jessica Hancock: Symposium #1: https://padlet.com/jessicahancock8_1/pgcert-symposium-2026-value-udl00zjmzo7lyxin

08.07.26: Students lost in the network: https://thesedablog.wordpress.com/2026/07/08/lost-in-the-network/

OTHER INTERESTING STUFF
Publishing as evolving collective infrastructure: https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1918

Catalina Neculai, James N. Corcoran and Bojana Petrić (Eds) Academic Publishing in a Fast Changing World: https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/international/fast-changing/

Explore latest open access books and journal articles in Sociology and Science, Technology and Society, freely available on the Bristol University Press Digital platform.

Peter Bryant: the ninth essay in his Mirror University series - on the need for healing: To what end? The trauma of crisis and finding states of healing in higher education.

Expensive creative retreats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83xUDxiN6Cw

More information on this retreat - https://margaretsoraya.com/isle-...

- love - and here's the latest from on Student wellbeing:
16/07/2026

- love - and here's the latest from on Student wellbeing:

This blog is brought to you from Dr Natalie Mack, an academic in Biotechnology, based in the School of Biosciences at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is

UPDATES on all things T&L - 02.07.26Current favourites: *** Journal of Imaginary Research V11, 2026 - shrinkage: https...
02/07/2026

UPDATES on all things T&L - 02.07.26

Current favourites:
*** Journal of Imaginary Research V11, 2026 - shrinkage: https://journalofimaginaryresearch.home.blog/2026/06/25/journal-of-imaginary-research-volume-eleven-2026/

*** ALDinHE Summer Fair: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/summer-fair/

#157 - on AI and Academic Reading: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/take5-157-on-genai-and-reading-an-emerging-perspective/

JLDHE V.40, 2026: https://journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jldhe/issue/view/55

LDP Podcasts: 23.06.26: Janice McCabe shares her research on campus loneliness and college friendship networks on episode 627 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast: https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/how-college-students-make-keep-and-lose-friends-with-janice-mccabe/

L&T Chatshow Podcasts
24.06.26: Malcolm Murray and Rochelle Rawlinson talking about the use of dragons to help people explore inclusivity and accessibility: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4gk9aY3yUynjTp9xxoQav7

01.07.26: Matt Ballentine on all things random, including apophenia, music, football and creativity: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5CXdASg2EABRBm95Im2xJC

RAISE: 17.06.26: Real partnership stories: https://www.raise-network.com/post/behind-the-scenes-of-partnership-between-lecturer-and-student-a-reflective-account

SEDA: 01.07.26:On being BAD: https://thesedablog.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/lets-be-bad-/

OTHER INTERESTING STUFF
Assessing Engagement - and should we: https://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/aflkings/opportunities-for-low-stakes-practice/assessing-participation/ - ??

Assessing Participation What is it? In recent years, educators have expressed concern about falling attendance (Marburger, 2006;. Edwards and Clinton (2019), and post-pandemic, in an online context, many students are perceived to be failing to engage in seminars through a lack of preparation or an u...

Join us on Bluesky for on Wednesday 24th June at 8pm BST with guest Abbi Shaw (.bsky.social) to discuss professional...
23/06/2026

Join us on Bluesky for on Wednesday 24th June at 8pm BST with guest Abbi Shaw (.bsky.social) to discuss professional identity, recognition, and collaboration in higher education:

Join us on Bluesky for on Wednesday 24th June at 8pm BST with guest Abbi Shaw (.bsky.social) to discuss professional identity, recognition, and collaboration in higher education. To…

UPDATES on all things T&L - 19.06.26Quick favouritesOneHE Activity - from Lisa Clughen: From me to you: https://onehe....
19/06/2026

UPDATES on all things T&L - 19.06.26

Quick favourites
OneHE Activity - from Lisa Clughen: From me to you: https://onehe.org/activities/from-me-to-you-a-collaborative-classroom-activity/

By our Anne Karpf: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/09/dementia-rebels-diagnosed-determined-change-peoples-minds ***

London Review of Books - Vol. 48 No. 10 · 4 June 2026
Squadrons of Pigs - Stefan Collini on the university system - https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n10/stefan-collini/squadrons-of-pigs - bonfire of the universities?


#155: Representing polyvocality in research: In this post Daisy Abbott explores Polyvocality – the practice of representing and foregrounding multiple voices, perspectives, or interpretations within research (and by implication within our teaching), particularly those that have been marginalised or excluded from dominant narratives: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/take5-155-representing-polyvocality-in-research/

#156: This short and sweet is brought to you by Joanne Craven who held an engaging session provocatively entitled ‘Pointless Play’ as part of the University of Liverpool’s Islands of Innovation 2025. Joanne draws on her experience as an educational games designer to argue for the power of the playful state - and kindness - in learning: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/take5-156moustaches-and-rollercoasters-holding-playful-spaces/

LDP Podcasts
28.05.26: This month Chahna Gonsalves of KCL, on the transparency trap and interpretive load - how we think our institutional Generative AI policies are surely making things clear for students, only to trap them in an interpretative morass where the risks of getting it wrong are high. You can read more about it in her recent article: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6lu2azNBLxO9iMFue0V9Vl?si=5tUuluBhSOq5j2EIznEZAQ&nd=1&dlsi=71f0649ed2db4533

L&T Chatshow Podcasts
27.05.26: Dan Cornwell-Groves on Team Based learning: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3P9vt8kPbmi4Qj3VB6jiUq

03.06.26: Karen Lander discussing her research leading to a resit road map:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3YPCCbIJLhaYcpARL7x7za

10.06.26: Table-top role-playing games and how the mechanics can be used in various aspects of learning: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2wNlemLrEv5cxxHteDS3g8

17.06.26: Ben Walker and Andrew Stork discussing how personal tutoring has changed post-pandemic: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3LM5fyAaW4USOEaf4tNXAF

Teaching in HE Podcasts
28.05.26: Denise Maduli-Williams shares how to engage learners in online courses on episode 624 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast: https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/how-to-engage-learners-in-online-courses-with-denise-maduli-williams/

RAISE
28.05.26: In What My Students’ Silences Taught Me More Than Their Answers – A Collaborative Account, undergraduate student Huynh Trang Tuan Tuong and lecturer Mary Moschou (UWE Bristol) come together to explore silence from both student and staff perspectives. https://www.raise-network.com/post/what-my-students-silences-taught-me-more-than-their-answers-a-collaborative-account

SEDA
03.06.26: Beautiful thought-provoking blog on emotional space in the writing workshop: https://thesedablog.wordpress.com/2026/06/03/cultivating-creative-resilience-in-the-writing-workshop/

OTHER INTERESTING STUFF
For July: registrations are now open for the University of Hull’s annual Teaching and Learning Conference - online, free event Wednesday 8th July - full details of the conference and register: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/gTf5Fb0JDYM8H6ol?ref=Link

28.05.26: The Educationalist blog: https://educationalist.substack.com/p/you-are-here

28.05.26: Sarah Howley - her HE Enables Story: https://open.spotify.com/episode/25jxSffIIC7bxgOodVOfiA?si=d5a75e05927b47b6&nd=1&dlsi=063527465bb4483b

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Critical Perspectives on Academic Writing: The politics and practices of writing development in UK higher education, edited by Ayanna Prevatt-Goldstein and David Mallows (Editor): https://uclpress.co.uk/book/critical-perspectives-on-academic-writing/

Critical Perspectives on Academic Writing offers a timely, theoretically grounded examination of the often marginalised yet foundational role of academic writing in UK higher education. Based on the UCL Institute of Education’s Academic Writing Seminar Series, the volume brings together leading re...

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