Chris Little

Big news from Manchester Met via @manmetuni.bsky.social and @manmetuta.bsky.social: 31 new AdvanceHE Fellowships awarded in October! 🙌
Representation from all faculties AND professional services across D1-4. Recognition should reflect contribution—not job title.
#HigherEd #TeachingExcellence

We've done this through deliberately inclusive language, cohort-based workshops & mentorship. This work validates PS roles as integral to teaching & learning, fostering confidence, reflective practice & community. Hoping to have some research published in early 2026 detailing this work! #LTHEchat

I was gutted to miss this @lthechat.bsky.social. At @manmetuni.bsky.social we’ve seen a five-year transformation in Advance HE recognition for Professional Services colleagues. PS staff now represent 33–37% of Fellowships—with growth across all categories, including Senior & Principal Fellow.

Just published a case study on inclusive feedback in HE with @jpaap.bsky.social
We tried out cohort videos, front sheets & audio feedback across 4 modules—students loved it!
More connection, more clarity, better engagement.
Check it out 👉 jpaap.ac.uk/JPAAP/articl...
#HigherEd #lthechat #LoveLD

Dr Alexandra Hay - NTFS 2025

Well done @dralexhay.bsky.social from @manmetuni.bsky.social ‬ on receiving #NTFS2025. Alex’s work in creating inclusive learning environments and championing education-focused colleagues is making a real difference in higher education.

So lovely to come back off leave and see that our Manchester Met colleagues have secured 2 NTFS and 1 CATE award. Supporting these colleagues from within @manmetuta.bsky.social (formally as TEAL until December 2024) has been a real privilege and they are worthy winners.

The Innovative Practice in HE journal has its latest special edition out now. A collaboration with the Group for Learning and Design in HE, it brings together pieces from their 2024 Conference- ‘Gathering Pace’. You can view it here: journals.staffs.ac.uk/index.php/ip...

Received notificaiton that subject to some minor revisions a journal paper of mine had been accepted. The really great thing though is that both anonymous reviewers gave kind, measured and really constructive feedback about the paper - academic publications can be a kind process too!

Excited to join the @advancehe.bsky.social #TLConf25 today, Sheffield is looking beautiful in the sun!

Presenting on behalf of my wonderful @manmetuta.bsky.social & @manmetuni.bsky.social
colleagues Kirsteen Aubrey, @v-vargas.bsky.social, Gladson Chikwa and @orlaghmccabe.bsky.social.

Looking forward to sharing insights and connecting with fellow educators at #TeachingLearning2025!

I am very much looking forward to next week's Teaching and Learning Conference. I'm presenting our poster: “The dialogue was positive, affirming and felt very relaxed”: The rise and rise of SFHEA recognition by Professional Dialogue.
#TLConf2025 #HigherEducation #TeachingExcellence

Now already learning loads from Keynote Sue Attewell from @jisc.bsky.social

Looking forward to an exciting day of learning at University of East London’s Generative AI for Learning conference, already off to a great start with a provocative opening address from Prof Buge Apampa.

Our latest edition brings together pieces on lecturers attitudes towards using VR technology in teaching, exploring the ‘hero’s journey’ in curriculum design & the role of race in research. I have also contributed a book review of Grimwood and McHanwell’s excellent ‘Evidencing Teaching Enhancement’.

It’s that time of year again! The latest Innovative Practice in Higher Education journal is now live at: journals.staffs.ac.uk/index.php/ip...
We have some fantastic papers to share and I would encourage all to engage and get involved.

We free living billions of wild animals to protect the animals we eat. We then destroy our environment to feed the animals we eat. We spend more time, money, and resources fattening the animals we eat, than we do feeding humans who are actually starving. The greatest irony is that after all the expense of raising these animals, we eat them, and they kill us... And instead of acknowledging this absurdity, we torture and kill millions of other animals trying to find a cure to the diseases caused by eating animals in the first place. When it comes to eating, humans are without question the most irrational animals on the planet.

Have you ever thought of it like this?

Really chuffed to get 2 individual nominations for Teaching Excellence and Values in our Staff Awards this year, alongside 2 team noms for Leadership and Research or Teaching Support Award for the wider LEED team. #McrMetProud

A great talk, and the language of 'digital confidence' is so much more accessible than terms like 'ability', 'capability' etc. Thanks for sharing.

Looking forward to sharing our work embracing GenAI responsibly today with @manmetdigied.bsky.social and
@manmetuta.bsky.social at the #udigcap event. Fab line up, should be a great day. Thanks to @owenmarie.bsky.social for leading our group of presenters!

Eat Like Your Life Depends on It Recent studies have hammered home a simple truth: eating a healthy, plant-based diet can drastically reduce your risk of dying from conditions like obesity

Recent studies have hammered home a simple truth: eating a healthy, plant-based diet can drastically reduce your risk of dying from conditions like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and even dangerous blood clots.

herbivore.club/blog/...

I was in a fab teaching obs this week where discussions were around the language of 'eco-friendly' marketing and it struck me how, in order to change anything in the world, we probably need to label the other side too. Eco-harmful and cruelty-full (that one's rubbish) labels needed. Just a thought.

A two-panel meme featuring a retro-style cartoon character reading a book. 1. The first panel shows a man in a yellow vest and white shirt reading a book titled **"Guinness Book of Excuses."** The text above reads, **"Non-Vegans:"** 2. The second panel is a close-up of the book, showing two contradictory statements: - **#403:** "Farmed animals would go extinct if we stopped killing them." - **#404:** "Farmed animals would overpopulate if we stopped killing them." The meme humorously highlights the contradictory arguments often used to justify animal exploitation.

Schrödinger's chicken 🐥

🎨 VengefulVegan

The power of scholarship - I met my co-editor 2 years ago delivering at the AMPS Conference. Kasia presented in our session and we connected over a shared love of dystopian podcasts! 2 years on and I’ve been warmly welcomed into the world of critical Architectural Education.

Book deal agreed!
This week a colleague and I received a contract through from Routledge to deliver a book: ‘Pedagogy as Creative Practice in Architecture: inspiration and resistance during change’.
Due for publication in August 2026. Now the real hard work starts!

More details to come but had an incredibly exciting email from Routledge confirming they want to go ahead with a book proposal myself and a colleagues at Manchester Met have put forward - exciting times ahead and more details soon! first book deal

A cartoon showing a woman sitting on a chair, feeding her baby with a bottle while looking at her phone. The bottle is connected to a tube leading to a crying cow being milked by a machine. Beside the cow, her calf looks on, visibly distressed. The artwork is signed "Shadi Alashoush Caricature 29/5/2015."

Dairy is the destruction of motherhood 💔

Tagging copresenters @v-vargas.bsky.social, @orlaghmccabe.bsky.social

Good news post - @manmetuta.bsky.social colleagues and I have had an abstract accepted to present at the @advancehe.bsky.social Teaching & Learning Conference 2025. We will explore enabling at-scale professional recognition for third-space colleagues & the success of our professional dialogue route

Such lazy headline work here guys - you have a duty of care to report things accurately, this is not accurate reporting, it's inflammatory and plays into current generation culture wars.

Veg diet plus re-wilding gives 'double climate dividend' Switching to a plant-rich diet and using land freed up for nature is 'double whammy', experts say.

Fascinating research emerging confirming what we all know: www.bbc.co.uk/news/science... Question is, will anything change?