50 top voices to follow in higher education for 2026
Meet the Top 50 Voices in Higher Education 2026. From educators and innovators driving insight, leadership, and global impact.
Feeling really fortunate to be one of top 100 voices to follow in higher education. As early career researcher I could not be happier to be amongst such distinguished educators!
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14.02.2026 07:46 —
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Q5. If 'flourishing lives in the operational details,' what one thing would streamline HE workloads?
Q5. If 'flourishing lives in the operational details,' what one thing would streamline HE workloads?
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28.01.2026 20:40 —
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29.01.2026 10:03 —
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What does flourishing in the workplace look like / mean to you?
Q1. Leaders should create the conditions in which academics may flourish. What does flourishing in the workplace look like / mean to you?
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28.01.2026 20:00 —
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ditto reg cats!!!!! best companion who also got a picture in my PhD thesis and upcoming book :)
15.01.2026 08:21 —
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this is so true! I think this is why it is incredibly important for interview panels to have someone from EDI to ensure that we can focus on the questions rather than providing a whole story of why we do things our own way!
15.01.2026 08:17 —
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LTHEchat 349: Redundancy, Resilience, and Finding What’s Next
There’s no nice way to talk about redundancy. It doesn’t arrive as a single moment, even when there is a single date attached to it. It arrives in phases: uncertainty, waiting, the conversation itself, the aftermath. For some, it’s sudden. For others, it’s drawn out and quietly exhausting. Either way, it has a way of cutting through confidence, identity, and momentum, particularly in a sector many of us entered because we believed in it.
This week we will feature @hopkinsdavid.bsky.social exploring
Redundancy, Resilience, and Finding What’s Next
#LTHEchat
12.01.2026 13:17 —
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Skepticism is widely regarded as the immune system of rational inquiry. However, when skepticism is unmoored from empirical grounding, logical rigor, or proportional standards of evidence, it degenerates into "Baseless Skepticism"—a form of obstructionist cynicism. This paper argues that rational doubt must be treated as a claim requiring justification,
specifically subject to the constraints of reality. Drawing on principles of Bayesian inference and virtue epistemology, we formalize the Principle of Demonstrated Competence, arguing that claims surviving adversarial, real-world constraints establish a high epistemic prior. We further propose the Law of Epistemic Symmetry, positing that the rejection of
a validated claim incurs a burden of proof identical to its acceptance. We conclude that dismissing demonstrated competence without counter-data is not intellectual rigor, but a violation of the ethics of belief.
Baseless Skepticism
"When skepticism lacks empirical grounding or logical justification, it ceases to function as a truth-seeking instrument and becomes a performative posture of intellectual superiority."
philarchive.org/archive/BIPABS
08.01.2026 22:44 —
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Q5. How would staff wellbeing and workload be affected by these expectations? #LTHEchat
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07.01.2026 20:40 —
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Q4. With PGT coming into focus, how can we better support our Level 7 students right now? #LTHEchat
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07.01.2026 20:30 —
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Q1. What do you think the new "lowest rating" rule means for how we prioritise our work? #LTHEchat
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07.01.2026 20:01 —
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Q2. What feels most challenging about meeting the new quality expectations?
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07.01.2026 20:11 —
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Happy to share that I’ve joined the #LTHEchat organising committee 🎉
Looking forward to learning lots, contributing to the chats, and being part of such a thoughtful HE teaching community.
#LTHEchat #HigherEd #LearningAndTeaching #AcademicLife #EdDev #TeachingCommunity
07.01.2026 15:32 —
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Don't forget to join us for #LTHEchat this evening at 8pm GMT!
Checkout the blogpost here: lthechat.com/2026/01/05/l...
07.01.2026 15:08 —
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at ALT/Jisc event today. The last time I was in Birkbeck was in 2010, when I decided to retrain as a psychologist and took evening classes here. It was also a turmolous time when student riots were taking place. Birkbeck will be a special place as incubator of my academic dreams ❤️
27.06.2025 12:07 —
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Continuing my exploration of identity!
"Seeing others embrace a life that doesn’t revolve around romantic relationships helps me to accept and even celebrate my own choices."
drsarune.substack.com/p/code-of-two
02.06.2025 10:29 —
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Sarune Savickaite // VR, Cognition, Perception, Autism & Creativity
PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow. Interested in research on Virtual Reality, Autism, Creativity, Perception, Vision and Cognition.
just gave my personal website a much-needed refresh: www.sarune.info. It’s a space for my work, thoughts, and the occasional daydream. Take a look if you’re curious about immersive tech, neurodiversity, or the inner life of an overthinking academic 🌿
#NewWebsite #DigitalIdentity #AcademicLife
27.05.2025 11:05 —
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open.substack.com/pub/drsarune
20.05.2025 16:00 —
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Highly recommend this read to anyone working on workplace culture, equity, or simply wondering why things feel "off" even when everything looks fine on paper.
20.05.2025 15:16 —
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New blog post open.substack.com/pub/drsarune...
13.05.2025 15:34 —
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Decolonising of the curriculum is not my area of research, but it is a huge point for higher education sector so I am very happy that I can attend this conference today in Exeter. Learning a lot!
07.05.2025 12:09 —
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"What looks like discipline is often desperation. It’s not always about being clean or precise; it’s about calming the internal storm, scratching that invisible itch."
drsarune.substack.com/p/the-itch-y...
06.05.2025 09:42 —
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We hear a lot of buzz about “interdisciplinary work” these days. But how can we truly be interdisciplinary when we discourage curiosity beyond the boundaries of a single field? When we view people with wide-ranging interests as unfocused, or worse, unserious?
drsarune.substack.com/p/rediscover...
28.04.2025 08:00 —
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It’s a quiet kind of exclusion. As if we are welcome—as long as we don’t speak too loudly, or at all. Many choose to stay quiet, to blend in.
drsarune.substack.com
22.04.2025 10:53 —
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loving the lunch time Jisc webinars on AI, today we learn all about AI safety in education setting!
16.04.2025 11:37 —
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I'm pleased to share that I will be discussing my work on VR and drawing at the next creatveHE meet-up. More information here > creativehecommunity.wordpress.com/2025/04/02/s...
15.04.2025 12:40 —
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