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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. Support Staff of the year: Aletta Ritchie, Disability and Learning Support Service (Photo credit: EUSA) Our Support Staff of this year is Aletta Ritchie.

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Spotlight on Joint Degrees: Negotiating ‘best practice’ across the University

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Tackling these organisational issues means looking closely at our academic and professional services structures, and challenging some of the accepted wisdom on how we provide support to students. To that end, our series of internal conversations will shortly be expanded to include our partner Schools. Oct 1, 2018

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Spotlight on Joint Degrees: Negotiating 'best practice' across the University

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Tackling these organisational issues means looking closely at our academic and professional services structures, and challenging some of the accepted wisdom on how we provide support to students. To that end, our series of internal conversations will shortly be expanded to include our partner Schools. Oct 1, 2018

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The cost of knowledge: Exploring the increasing complexity of student mental health

Teaching Matters Academic Support

These students can also sometimes find it challenging to navigate support services due to language and cultural barriers. Below are a few suggestions: Destigmatise and open up the conversation: Students can feel embarrassed about seeking out support, and we all have a part to play in tackling the stigma around mental health.

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The cost of knowledge: Exploring the increasing complexity of student mental health

Teaching Matters Academic Support

These students can also sometimes find it challenging to navigate support services due to language and cultural barriers. Below are a few suggestions: Destigmatise and open up the conversation: Students can feel embarrassed about seeking out support, and we all have a part to play in tackling the stigma around mental health.

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Spotlight on the 2023 Teaching Award winners: Staff offering exceptional level of support to students

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Support Staff of the Year This category recognises staff working in professional services who provided support to students, helped things run smoothly and efficiently (often behind the scenes) and signposted students to services and resources, so they could get the support they needed.

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Understanding the student experience better

SRHE

Secondly, there were a number of academic staff who were not only exercised by the lack of research on the increasing diversity and the increases tout court , of the student body, but were also finding alliances and partnerships with non-academic staff, support staff or professional services staff.