YSJ, Academic Development Programme
Professional Development for Learning, Teaching and Research
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]