YSJ, Academic Development Programme

Professional Development for Learning, Teaching and Research

RIPPLE Reading Group: What reading has inspired you this summer?

Microsoft Teams --, United Kingdom

For our first RIPPLE Reading Group of the academic year, we will come together online to discuss the reading that has inspired us over the summer – whether a novel, a poem, an academic article or report, a self-help book or a manifesto for systemic change!  There is no requirement to read anything extra or […]

RIPPLE Panel Discussion: The Politics of GenAI

Microsoft Teams --, United Kingdom

Our next RIPPLE session will be an online panel discussion on the politics of generative AI (GenAI) and its place within higher education (HE). In this session, we are not looking to discuss university policy or the more practical concerns surrounding the use of GenAI in teaching, learning or assessment, but rather to hold open […]

RIPPLE Reading Group: Employability – or, preparing for alternative futures?

Microsoft Teams --, United Kingdom

For our second RIPPLE Reading Group of the academic year, we will come together online to discuss student employability and how we might mobilise and reimagine employability to help prepare for or even bring about alternative futures. To kick off the discussion, we will consider a 2019 article from the Journal of Higher Education Policy […]

RIPPLE Reading Group – Compassionate Pedagogies

Microsoft Teams --, United Kingdom

For our first RIPPLE Reading Group of 2024, we will come together online to discuss compassionate pedagogies and whether it is too much to ask for a compassionate university in these neoliberal times. To kickstart the discussion, we will consider a 2019 piece in the Australian Universities Review, titled: 'Unveiling opportunities for hope: Is it […]

RIPPLE Reading Group: What reading has inspired you this summer?

MS Teams

For our first RIPPLE Reading Group of 2024/25, we will come together online to discuss the reading that has inspired us over the summer – whether a novel, a poem, a scholarly article, an intriguing long-read, an activist handbook or a political manifesto!  There is no need to read anything extra or specific, and we […]

RIPPLE Breakfast Meeting: Student engagement – how to make our efforts count

MS Teams

For our next RIPPLE breakfast meeting, we will meet online to discuss how – in the face of ever-increasing workloads – we can make our efforts count for as many students as possible through innovative approaches to assessment, pedagogy and practice.  We will first hear from YSJ colleagues whose novel cross-disciplinary initiatives have helped to […]