Dr Saneeya Qureshi, MBA, PFHEA

2025 in review – Research in the age of AI - Impact of Social Sciences The first of our annual reviews brings together ten of the best posts published in 2025 on the Impact Blog exploring research in the age of AI.

📆Check out the first of our annual reviews . It brings together some of the top posts on the theme of AI, research and higher education we published in 2025

#AcademicSky #AIresearch #HigherEducation

Start where you are and do what you can. Your actions matter 💖✅ Join us for #HappierJanuary and get the new year off to a calmer and happier start actionforhappiness.org/happier-janu...

Fantastic opportunity for SHAPE experts to contribute to DSIT's College of Experts and to provide impartial scientific and technical advice.

DSIT is looking for experts in areas including AI, cyber security, digital infrastructure, economic security, R&I and regulatory innovation, to name a few!

Delighted to announce 3 convenors to lead our new Emerging Researchers Network (ERN).

🙌 Dr Maggie Green - Atlantic Technological University
🙌 Ms Isabel Machado Da Silva, Dublin City University
🙌 Dr Annie O’Donovan
Munster Technological University

All details here: esai.ie/introducing-...

Why researchers change direction - and what funders should do about it - Research on Research New insights from 21 biomedical researchers

Why do research projects sometimes end up somewhere unexpected?

In a new blog post, RoRI research fellow Josie Coburn shares findings from 21 interviews with biomedical scientists: researchonresearch.org/why-research...

Too many mediocre men talk over capable women.

Study of problem-solving teams: Men dominate the conversation, taking 50% more turns and saying 69% more than women. Men with low skill speak more than women with high skill.

It's long past time to value competence over confidence.

REF 2029 publishes updates and resumes criteria setting following pause

All updates are now live on our website: 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/ref-202...

Every act of kindness makes a difference. Help create a happier world this December with our Kindness Calendar. Please use & share 💕🌍🎄🙏 #DoGoodDecember actionforhappiness.org/do-good-dece...

Joining the National Teaching Fellowship community Dr Kerry Traynor, Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool  Dr Kerry Traynor, Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool, descri…

Reflective post from Kerry Traynor on her golden thread and recent reflection on joining the National Teaching Fellowship community
ntf-association.com/joining-the-...

If you reach a goal by compromising your values, you haven’t succeeded.

If you fall short of a goal by upholding your values, you haven’t failed.

The highest form of accomplishment is standing by your principles when they’re tested.

Happy 5th Birthday #EERAblog! Thank you to the 170+ authors who have submitted to the EERA blog and the 80,000 visitors who engaged with the EERA family by reading, commenting and sharing. We're looking forward to an exciting 6th year. Join the conversation! #EduSci https://tinyurl.com/2fbmy2j4

When the world feels uncertain, it's helpful to stay hopeful. Join us for #OptimisticOctober and find ways to keep moving forward and helps others do the same

🗓️ Get your action calendar actionforhappiness.org/optimistic-o...

✅ Join the optimism challenge actionforhappiness.org/october-chal...

Working recently at the EERA Desk during ECER 2025 in Belgrade, we realized that many people have questions about what exactly ERC, ECER and EERA stand for and what role the Networks play. For answers to these questions (and more): https://tinyurl.com/4mfsnwvf

Looking forward to this @drntasler.bsky.social

#LTHEchat #educatjon

We’ve extended eduroam to rural Kenya using satellite internet, working with Kenya Education Network (KENET) to bring secure connectivity to remote research sites.

Find out how the project came together 👇

Wonderful to see you all at the #ECER2025 Welcome Reception at Silosi last night, and to catch up with long-time colleagues and meet new ones.

Pre-ERC at #ECER2025 impressions: the walking tour group and the ERG Link Convenor Lisa Bugno in front of the Faculty of Philosphy, the local volunteers, ERC pronoun pins and the Pop Up Playground in the Fac of Philosophy.

"Much of what shapes a scientific paper never sees the light of day."

RoRI's André Brasil writes about MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) and opening the black box of peer review in the inaugural issue of REACH by @sci-integrity.com: www.sci-integrity.com/reach-inaugu...

Putting one shoe in a safe just strikes me as a great way of losing one shoe per trip

Transcripts Helps you understand and create transcripts for audio and video media accessibility.

Basic transcripts are a text version of speech and non-speech audio information needed to understand content. Descriptive transcripts also describe the visual information needed to understand the content, helping people who are both Deaf and blind.

www.w3.org/WAI/media/av...

The unethical burden of public engagement and the ‘alt-output’ problem - Impact of Social Sciences Photo essays, podcasts, and other ‘impactful’ outputs are on the rise. While funders cheer innovation and community engagement, communities in crisis settings feel over-researched and under-served.

💥New: The unethical burden of public engagement and the ‘alt-output’ problem.

✍️ @birte-vogel.bsky.social, Larissa Fast & Jessica Field

#ResearchImpact #ResearchEthics #DevelopmentStudies

Key principles for attractive and sustainable academic careers EUA - European University Association

By acknowledging that teaching, research and innovation are fundamentally collective endeavours and by providing an ambitious yet supportive academic culture, universities can continue to attract the brightest minds for the future. 💡
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NEW on Wonkhe: Kelly Edmunds and Kate Strudwick ask why there is so little research into the experience of postgraduate students buff.ly/R2D2mTm

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴: In the run up to ECER, Dr Philippe Gabriel looks forward to conversations in Belgrade with those who see education as a force for transformation #ECER2025 #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/researching-education-in-troubled-times/

Self-care isn't selfish - you can't pour from an empty cup. Join us for #SelfCareSeptember and find ways to be kinder to yourself as well as others 🙏💕🌍 actionforhappiness.org/self-care-se...

Intelligence depends on more than cognitive horsepower. It requires cognitive flexibility.

The faster the world evolves, the greater the cost of rigidity. Stubbornness is a path to getting trapped in the past.

The future belongs to those with the courage to change their minds.

ALTC25 Guest Post: A Manifesto for Slow Digital Learning In a world that seems to be speeding up by the second, with notifications pinging, deadlines looming and AI tools promising instant answers, I’ve been thinking lately about ways of taking thi…

In a world that seems to be speeding up by the second, with notifications pinging, deadlines looming and AI tools promising instant answers, Helen Greetham has been thinking about ways of slowing down when it comes to digital learning and infrastructures in our latest #altc blog:

Democratising funding evaluation can slash the time it takes to deliver a final decision by over 50% - Research on Research A new RoRI study with the Volkswagen Foundation shows how distributed peer review can make funding decisions more democratic

🚀 New study out!

Together with @volkswagenstiftung.de, we’ve tested distributed peer review - a model where applicants also act as reviewers - to see how it compares with conventional panel review: researchonresearch.org/democratisin...

What does it mean? Exploring staff and student understandings of pedagogical buzzwords in Higher Education Many ‘buzzwords’ are used to describe approaches to teaching and learning in Higher Education, but what do they actually mean? Do students actually need to know about these terms? If so, how should...

Report on our small study, done as we returned from lockdowns, looking at staff and students' understanding of terminology around learning and teaching:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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