In November, colleagues examined the question of student retention – the long term challenges, but also the new landscape of pandemic pedagogy, place and community. Building on… Read More »Keeping student engagement inclusive
I believe that one of the defining features of working in professional development is an innate sense of curiosity: for how people work, how they… Read More »A hub of ideas to ignite new ways to lead
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We can all agree that student engagement is important: both for students to successfully achieve higher order cognitive skills in HE, and as a motivational… Read More »#52etc – a toolkit for student engagement
It’s fair to say 2020 has been a challenging year in higher education. The pace of change was beyond anyone’s expectation, ‘agile working’ doesn’t give… Read More »Balancing tensions
Where do you work and what is your role? I work at the University of Huddersfield, where I am a People and Organisational Development Manager… Read More »My SDF story with Helen Connor