Higher Education Research and Development

Examining staff-student sexual relationship policies at Australian Universities: changes since #MeToo and Change the Course (2017) Following the establishment of legislation offering protection from sexual harassment, conversations and debate about sexual relationships between academic staff and students in higher education in...

Examining staff-student sexual relationship policies at Australian Universities: changes since #MeToo and Change the Course (2017)

Ceridwen Spark, Denise Cuthbert & Bess Schnioffsky

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High. Educ. Res. Dev. Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time...

Top 10 Australian research frontiers discovered with the help of AI

Ten example articles, one from Higher Education Research & Development, and one from High. Educ. Res. Dev. 2/10!

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Mary Abura, Nicki Gerstner & Euna Lim | Global Citizenship Ed. Interview Series with Emiliano Bosio | Global Citizenship Education Interview Series 🎙️🌍 Global Citizenship Education Interview Series welcomes Nicki L. Gerstner, Euna Lim and Mary Abura. In this episode Dr. Emiliano T. Bosio, Ph.D. Director and Host of the series discusses with Nicki...

The latest Global Citizenship Education Interview Series podcast:

Global citizenship education in Korean higher education: moving beyond transformative calls to praxes

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#GlobalCitizenship #GlobalCitizenshipEducation #Korea 🇰🇷

Conditions that enable effective feedback Despite an increasing focus on assessment feedback, educators continue to find that simply replicating an effective feedback practice from one context does not guarantee success in the next. There ...

Conditions that enable effective #feedback [2019]
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Examining staff-student sexual relationship policies at Australian Universities: changes since #MeToo and Change the Course (2017) Following the establishment of legislation offering protection from sexual harassment, conversations and debate about sexual relationships between academic staff and students in higher education in...

Examining staff-student sexual relationship policies at Australian Universities: changes since #MeToo and Change the Course (2017)

Ceridwen Spark, Denise Cuthbert & Bess Schnioffsky

doi.org/10.1080/0729...

Students’ informal learning interactions in health professions education: insights from a qualitative synthesis1 Despite being recognised as complementary to formal learning, informal learning is not yet well understood. Using a qualitative synthesis approach, we systematically reviewed how students’ informal...

Students’ informal learning interactions in health professions education: insights from a qualitative synthesis
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Text Shot: The emergence of Generative AI (GenAI) in higher education has prompted considerable discussion within the research community. Despite their centrality, students’ perspectives remain underexplored. We investigated how students position GenAI in relation to their studies, conducting focus groups with 79 students across four Australian universities. Taking a sociotechnical stance and employing reflexive thematic analysis, we identified three primary themes: (1) studying with and without GenAI; (2) mixing messages and assumptions; and (3) ‘coming from me’: self-trust and resistance to dependency. Crossing these themes were axial threads of time, emotions, and moral judgement. Our findings illuminate a complex, dynamic and uncertain landscape of relationships in which students prioritise their developing values and moral positions over institutional messaging. Amongst diverse and changing practices, students generally conveyed a sense that their educational work should come…

Time, emotions and moral judgements: how university students position GenAI within their study www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… #AI #students #education

Preparing PhDs for Life outside Universities should provide PhD graduates with generic skills training to help them with work outside the academy, according to a new report.

Preparing PhDs for life outside
futurecampus.com.au/2025/11/04/p...

An image of Morpheus from the Matrix with the words "What if I told you... more HERD articles have been published"

New articles just dropped in Higher Education Research and Development

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Academic casualisation and precarity: a scoping review Worldwide there are significant and growing concerns about the increasing number of academics working on short-term contracts (referred to as adjunct faculty, contingent faculty, casual academics, ...

Academic casualisation and precarity: a scoping review

Rebekah Willson, Owen Stewart-Robertson, Heidi Julien & @lisagiven.bsky.social

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#AcademicStaff #Casualisation #Precarity #LabourRelations #HigherEd #AcademicWork

Authors synthesize research on informal learning in health profession education. They ID a range of informal learning opportunities, situate these theoretically, & identify enablers & threats faculty can be intentional about addressing.

Great read for CSD faculty #SLPeeps #SoTLsky #MedEd #HigherEd

Students’ informal learning interactions in health professions education: insights from a qualitative synthesis1 Despite being recognised as complementary to formal learning, informal learning is not yet well understood. Using a qualitative synthesis approach, we systematically reviewed how students’ informal...

Students’ informal learning interactions in health professions education: insights from a qualitative synthesis
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Preparing PhDs for Life outside Universities should provide PhD graduates with generic skills training to help them with work outside the academy, according to a new report.

Preparing PhDs for life outside
futurecampus.com.au/2025/11/04/p...

PhD employability beyond academia: an analysis of industry skills emphasis through a cultural capital lens PhD graduate employability is crucial for candidates, employers, and governments. Having PhD graduates in appropriate post-study employment enhances career satisfaction, benefits organisations, and...

TRANSFERABLE SKILLS: this article is making the case that PhDs don't prepare students for work outside academia "PhD employability beyond academia: an analysis of industry skills emphasis through a cultural capital lens" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Developing a teacher identity in the university context: a systematic review of the literature (2017)
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In researcher development, are we missing men, fixing women, or creating gender trouble? There is significant, extant literature on different aspects of gender inequality and gendered norms in higher education. However, there is relatively limited engagement with how these insights rel...

In researcher development, are we missing men, fixing women, or creating gender trouble?

@drmeagantyler.bsky.social, @tseenster.bsky.social & @danbendrups.bsky.social

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#ResearcherDevelopment #HigherEd #AcademicDevelopment #Gender #GenderInequality #DoctoralEducation

Academic casualisation and precarity: a scoping review Worldwide there are significant and growing concerns about the increasing number of academics working on short-term contracts (referred to as adjunct faculty, contingent faculty, casual academics, ...

Academic casualisation and precarity: a scoping review

Rebekah Willson, Owen Stewart-Robertson, Heidi Julien & @lisagiven.bsky.social

→ doi.org/10.1080/0729...

#AcademicStaff #Casualisation #Precarity #LabourRelations #HigherEd #AcademicWork

Intersectionality and equality policies in Higher Education and Research organizations: a critical scoping review and future research agenda The notion of intersectionality is increasingly used to theorize inequalities within Higher Education and Research (HE&R) organizations. However, its translation into effective equality policies re...

New publication with Joanna Beeckmans & @patriziazanoniprof.bsky.social in @herdjournal.bsky.social on intersectionality and equality policies in Higher Education and Research organizations, as part of @inspireproject.bsky.social
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Currently reading Nooij et al. (2025) on "Do not leave your values at the door; the permissibility of activism in the lecture hall" - Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching Academia and activism, how do they go together? I’ve been curious about that for a while, as evidenced by these posts. Today I came across an article that investigates not only academic activism, but ...

Currently reading Nooij et al. (2025) on “Do not leave your values at the door; the permissibility of activism in the lecture hall”

@mirjamglessmer.bsky.social's blogpost on a recent HERD article
mirjamglessmer.com/2025/09/03/c...

Activism in the lecture hall strengthens academic learning
vu.nl/en/news/2025...

Is this the best title ever y/n (y)

Ever run researcher development sessions and noted a gender disparity? Our paper on this topic, simmering away since 2024, is out! Our fearless leader + heaviest lifter on this work is undeniably @drmeagantyler.bsky.social.

* insert 'We're not worthy' meme *

Thanks, @herdjournal.bsky.social! 🫰

Not just that woman who sits in the corner and says "patriarchy" at conferences to raised eyebrows, I write about this stuff, too! Gendered norms and gender inequality are embedded in academia. How could we be thinking about this in researcher development? #highered #resdev bsky.app/profile/herd...

In researcher development, are we missing men, fixing women, or creating gender trouble? There is significant, extant literature on different aspects of gender inequality and gendered norms in higher education. However, there is relatively limited engagement with how these insights rel...

In researcher development, are we missing men, fixing women, or creating gender trouble?

@drmeagantyler.bsky.social, @tseenster.bsky.social & @danbendrups.bsky.social

→ doi.org/10.1080/0729...

#ResearcherDevelopment #HigherEd #AcademicDevelopment #Gender #GenderInequality #DoctoralEducation

Here's the link to the HERD article.

doi.org/10.1080/0729...

Using peer feedback, teacher feedback and self-assessment to enhance students’ feedback literacy behaviour

Qiufang Zheng, David Boud & Phillip Dawson

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#StudentAssessment #PeerFeedback #SelfAssesment #FeedbackLiteracy #Feedback

Student employability ‘main priority’ for university boards Both internal and external board members agree on priorities for institutions, countering view that outsiders favour different approach

Student employability ‘main priority’ for university boards
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/student...

Activism in the lecture hall strengthens academic learning
vu.nl/en/news/2025...

Exploring the adoption of generative artificial intelligence tools among university teachers Generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) has quickly become a versatile teaching tool available to both students and university teachers. However, its acceptance is not yet universal among teach...

Exploring the adoption of generative artificial intelligence tools among university teachers
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Inclusive assessment design: students with disabilities speak out Research knows a great deal about how assessment could be ‘more inclusive’, but what do students have to say about inclusive assessment design? This study considers the voices of students with disa...

Inclusive assessment design: students with disabilities speak out

My new study has been published in @herdjournal.bsky.social! What do 139 students have to say about how assessment could be made more inclusive?

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