The SDF would like to welcome our new incoming chair of the North West Staff Developers Group, John Trantom. We’re very excited to have John… Read More »The SDF welcomes new Co-Chair for the North-West Region
Embarking on the use of LinkedIn Learning – with the potential of 17,000 titles – is somewhat daunting. As with Goldilocks in the house of… Read More »LinkedIn Learning – Oh, Where to Begin?
In these complex times in HE, resilience is becoming the key skillset and quality that enables staff in organisations to both survive and thrive.… Read More »Supporting Resilience through L&D in HE
This talk was an example of what women working well together can achieve quickly! Rossana Espinoza invited me to talk about my book Towards the… Read More »Reflections on International Women’s Day Talk: ‘Speak for Yourself’
To mark International Women’s day the SDF have organised some additional events to support the launch of our SIG. We would love to see as… Read More »Speak for Yourself – International Women’s Day Week
Most large employers, universities included, use e-learning to introduce the topics of equality, diversity and inclusion to their workforce. These modules helpfully set the scene,… Read More »Diversity Learning– going beyond online
We think and talk a lot about student wellbeing. Why wouldn’t we? Quite apart from its link to learning (see Vailes and also Hughes (2020:4)for example), no one in… Read More »A systemic approach: the key to embedding wellbeing
A third lockdown continues. Whilst ominous, to me it feels a little different to March. At that point I felt panicked, a sense of no-one knowing… Read More »Living the Tangerine Dream