Fran Sutherland

Climate change keeps showing up in our teaching, often in messy, uncertain ways. This week’s #LTHEChat is a space to think together about authenticity, care, and collective professional learning. Hope you’ll join us on Wednesday evening 8-9PM GMT #LTHEChat

LTHEchat 353: How real is too real? Authentic learning and climate change across the curriculum 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…

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A6 Be in the physical and virtual spaces where staff and students are. It's a people thing Education. Their success is your success. You can't run a University from a spare room or ivory tower, especially not in a crisis or restructure. If more VCs did this, the sector would be better. #LTHEChat

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Spend time in the “in‑between” spaces. Culture shows up most clearly where no one is performing.

• Sit in atrium, café, or library & watch how people interact
• do students mix across groups or stick to silos
• listen to the tone of conversations
• how do staff & students share space

A6 Being able to participate in its different services, lifecycles, and to contribute to its imagination. #LTHEchat

Q6. What would help us to 'feel' a university culture?

Q6. What would help us to 'feel' a university culture?

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A5 for me, turning off Teams! #constantinterruptions #LTHEchat

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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A4 staff who are totally committed to their jobs, education, the value of learning and thinking, and research. Also people frustrated with low/ stagnant salaries despite working very hard… and IT 😂 (sorry IT people) #LTHEchat

Q4. The TV series 'Undercover Boss' features CEOs in disguise investigating how their organisation really works. What might an undercover senior leader find in an HEI?

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A3 #LTHEchat I think the financial world we live in now makes this difficult. Do staff value pay rises afforded by promotion more than non fiscal, ‘people’ policies? Otherwise, being heard, given space, encouragement and acknowledgement -all good.

Q3. What enables staff to feel as though their development, wellbeing and contributions are valued?

Q3. What enables staff to feel as though their development, wellbeing and contributions are valued?

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A2 yes because staff are both the most costly *and* most precious resource an organisation has. Happy staff help! #LTHEchat

Q2. Should creating conditions for people to flourish be the utmost priority in the HE sector at a time of competing pressures?

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A1 flourishing for academics I think means time to think, write/produce, research, innovate, and lead their specialisms themselves. Time to explore pedagogy and teaching with regular CPD. And to feel good about work with well-being

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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👋 Fran from London/Sheffield. Looking forward to this!

Prof Damien Page (@profdamienpage.bsky.social) Vice Chancellor at Buckinghamshire New University and Professor of Education #academicsky

This week’s #LTHEchat will be starting in 10 minutes. We will be discussing “Leadership and Academic Flourishing' with @profdamienpage.bsky.social . Still time to read through the blogpost lthechat.com/2026/01/26/l...

LTHEchat 351: Leadership and Academic Flourishing Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 28th January at 8pm GMT with guest Prof Damien Page to discuss Leadership and Academic Flourishing. University leaders juggle a lot. Financial sustaina…

One hour to go to get ready :) Read the blogpost lthechat.com/2026/01/26/l... and follow the hashtag #LTHEchat - it's that easy.

LTHEchat 351: Leadership and Academic Flourishing Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 28th January at 8pm GMT with guest Prof Damien Page to discuss Leadership and Academic Flourishing. University leaders juggle a lot. Financial sustaina…

Join us tonight at 8 pm BST where we’ll be exploring Leadership and Academic Flourishing with @profdamienpage.bsky.social

Read the blog for more: lthechat.com/2026/01/26/l...

Come along tonight: talking about Higher Education’s favourite theme - Leadership and Flourishing 🌼

Join us tonight 8-9pm BST for the #LTHEchat. VC @profdamienpage.bsky.social hosts this week’s topic, Leadership and Academic Flourishing. Blog post 👇🏼, see you at 8! @lthechat.bsky.social

LTHEchat 351: Leadership and Academic Flourishing University leaders juggle a lot. Financial sustainability. Strategy. Governance. Regulators. Government. Partnerships. Reputation. Committees upon committees. It’s no surprise leadership can feel l…

Don't forget to join us tomorrow, Wednesday 8-9pm BST, for #LTHEchat which will explore Leadership and Academic Flourishing with @profdamienpage.bsky.social

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#LTHEchat A6 I'd like to restart the conversation about Appropriate Tech - choosing the tech for the pedagogic purpose rather than forced to use hitech cos the uni has paid such a lot for it - and frankly prefers it to human staff. Can we have the sugarpaper & felt tips, the scissors & glue, too?

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A6 ahh what a lovely question and thought, relief! I think, focusing on listening. As a skill, as comms, as relational pedagogy, as learning from and with others.

Looking ahead: what is one small but meaningful change you could make in the next semester that keeps learning human in a GenAI-rich world?

Q6: Looking ahead: what is one small but meaningful change you could make in the next semester that keeps learning human in a GenAI-rich world?

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A5 I think policies currently need to be overarching and interpretable by disciplinary areas. Unless any HEI is brave enough to ban ;) #LTHEchat