Join us on Bluesky for the #LTHE chat on Wednesday 3 June at 8pm BST with guests Jill Dickinson (@jilldickinson.bsky.social), Monika Foster (@monika-foster06.bsky.social), and Debbie Rigby (@debbie…

Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 27th May at 8pm BST with guests Caroline Michelle Keep to discuss why HE outreach needs to move beyond marketing events and become a clearer, more incl…

Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 6th May at 8pm BST with guest Sarah Telfer (@stelfer.bsky.social) to discuss how storytelling can be used as an employability tool to help educators re…

Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 29th April at 8pm BST with guest Jenni Rose (@jennirose21.bsky.social) to discuss how we can support students’ critical thinking through self-fee…

Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 15th April at 8pm BST with guest Danielle Hinton (@hintondm.bsky.social to discuss Brookfield’s Four Lenses! Introduction Educators in Higher Education…

Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 25th March at 8pm GMT with guest Deeba Parmar (@deebaparmar.bsky.social) to discuss Academic Wellbeing, Emotional Energy and Caring Leadership! - Higher education continues to navigate significant challenge. Change is constant, expectations are high and the pace can feel unrelenting. In these moments it is often the visible outputs that take priority: delivery, performance, metrics.

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Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 18th March at 8pm GMT with guest Hannah Robinson to discuss the Use of Humour in Higher Education Teaching. Have you ever found yourself making a joke or laughing at yourself during your lectures? Research evidence shows most academics report that they use humour with their students. The use of humour in education has been reported to effect different areas of students’ educational experiences such as their wellbeing, the classroom environment, relationships, and learning outcomes.

Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 11th March at 8pm GMT with guest Rachel Forsyth to discuss GenAI in higher education. In many conversations about generative AI in higher education, th…

Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 4th March at 8pm GMT with guest Dr Olivia Kelly to discuss how algorithmic bias can influence what students see on social media and what our role as ed…

Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 25th February at 8pm GMT with guest Samantha Ahern to discuss “Shifting sands and professional identities in Higher Education”. Change in H…

Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 18th February at 8pm GMT with guest Jacqui Thijm to discuss how can we empower students to be part of a larger university ‘It is not just about belongi…

Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 18th February at 8pm GMT with guest Jacqui Thijm to discuss how can we empower students to be part of a larger university ‘It is not just about belongi…

Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 18th February at 8pm GMT with guest Jacqui Thijm to discuss how can we empower students to be part of a larger university ‘It is not just about belongi…

Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 11th February at 8pm GMT with guest Dr Alina Congreve to discuss how can we empower students to be part of a larger university ‘How real is too real? A…

Dr Alexander Reid is a Senior Lecturer on a Teaching and Scholarship contract at the University of York. Over the last decade in his role he has developed passion for reducing boundaries to…

Despite Islam being the world's second-largest religion, higher education rarely acknowledges Ramadan. Louise Taylor explains a new guide for university staff to boost belonging and mattering Despite ...

Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 4th February at 8pm GMT with guest Prof Stephen Rutherford to discuss how can we empower students to be part of a larger university ‘Learning Community…

University leaders juggle a lot. Financial sustainability. Strategy. Governance. Regulators. Government. Partnerships. Reputation. Committees upon committees. It’s no surprise leadership can feel l…

Generative AI has become part of higher education with remarkable speed. In a short period of time, it has entered classrooms, assessment design, academic writing, feedback processes, and professio…

The Office for Students’ (OfS) latest proposal represents a significant shift in how teaching quality and student outcomes will be assessed. The message is clear: every higher education provider will be pulled into a single, integrated quality-assessment system that blends the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) with core regulatory conditions. For the sector, it’s a moment of scrutiny, but also a chance to rethink how we support students.

Join us on Bluesky with guest Dr Chris Martin @drchrism.bsky.social on Wednesday 22nd October 2025 at 20:00 BST When engaging in conversations with academic colleagues, the term ‘embedding academic skills’ is heard often. But what does this actually mean? In simple terms, it is about making sure that the skills needed by students – academic writing, referencing, critical thinking, research skills, time and organisation management – are taught…

Join us on Bluesky with guest Professor Zoë Allman @zoe-a-z.bsky.social on Wednesday 8th October 2025 at 20:00 BST Mental health and wellbeing are important topics that are increasingly discussed i…

T-Fun (or T-FΨN) stands for Teaching-Focused University Network, a collaborative group of academics on teaching-focused pathways in Psychology and related disciplines. We aim to create a community of…

Join us on Bluesky on Wednesday 24th September 2025 at 20:00 BST At the University of Glasgow we are in our first teaching week, the topic of note making, and its related systems seems appropriate, to set ourselves and our learners up for the new academic year. Notemaking I am not going deeply into the differentiation between note-taking versus note-making, but I will leave some references in the footnote…