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Becoming a professional services researcher in HE – making the train tracks converge

SRHE

It represents my personal reflections of working in UK higher education (HE) professional services roles and simultaneously gaining research experience through a Masters and Professional Doctorate in Education (EdD). After three years, I started my research track with a masters in international higher education.

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Mini-series: Student leadership and professional development

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Our hope has been to highlight the breadth of our student initiatives, as well as the many competing motivations involved in developing and supporting peer-led groups. Robyn also writes about film and television, and reads ghost stories.

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Go Abroad Staff: Building academic communities abroad

Teaching Matters Academic Support

These communities are essential grounds to fertilise collaborative research projects, seed good practice, and harvest innovative ideas. One solution is Go Abroad Staff , which provides Erasmus+ funding for academic and professional services staff to teach or train in Europe and beyond. Can I afford to go?

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An introduction to student and staff co-creation of the curriculum

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

For example, students’ and staff members’ increased enjoyment of learning and teaching alongside their professional development are particularly notable (Bovill & Bulley, 2011; Lubicz-Nawrocka, 2018; Lubicz-Nawrocka & Simoni, 2018; Matthews, 2016; Mercer-Mapstone et al., 2017), there are also many benefits!

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Spotlight on the 2024 Teaching Award winners: Staff offering exceptional levels of support to students

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Each year, we have several categories celebrating these staff – from supervisors and cohort leads to the many professional services staff who keep things ticking along smoothly. I think this is a clear indicator of just how much they appreciate this part of their relationship with staff.

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Digital citizenship and the importance of creating safe and inclusive online learning spaces

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Developing such guidance and training has been a chief focus of the Digital Safety and Citizenship initiative in the Digital Skills team over the past two years, but it is clear that we need the help of both our academic and professional services colleagues to spread the word.

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Sharing a Partnership Journey: Working with EUMAS to help achieve Cohort Lead goals

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

We worked with EUMAS primarily as a ‘client’ and developed a research brief based on primary data collection looking to understand student perspectives and gain insights on the 4 pillars. Student Voice To help enhance the student voice we worked with EUMAS in their research consultancy capacity.