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Creating Space for Belonging: Reflections on Student Engagement and Social Impact

Emmanuel Ewere has been awarded the York St John Students’ Union Social Impact Champion Award 2025. In this blog post he reflects on his work. This past academic year at…

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Beyond Bloom’s: A Pedagogy ‘Toolkit’ for Constructive Alignment in Higher Education

Dr Katy Bloom reflects on developing a framework that moves student teachers away from traditional taxonomies toward more evidence-based approaches to curriculum design, and discusses how it could be used…

Thinking about the supervisory process as an act of hospitality

Lee Higgins writes In May 2025, I was voted the Students’ Union Postgraduate Supervisor of the Year at York St John University. These things come as a surprise, of course.…

Decolonising Science Education in South Africa

Nkosinathi ‘Nathi’ Madondo is an external expert in the Higher Education Research Group at York St John, bringing theoretical expertise and practical experience of decolonisation of the higher education curriculum…

From the ‘new’ to the ‘newer’ normal:  Organisational culture and change within Higher Education

Alan Johnston, Steven Cock, Philip Coombes, Ruby Mathew, Susie Walsh and Lynsey Walker-Smith write… This article is available on the People in Employment Settings (PiES) blogsite and can be accessed…

Should knowledge be reflective? Where does my experience stand?

Kamil Lawal – Student Union President of Education at York St John The HERG is happy to welcome Student Union President of Education at York St John, Kamil Lawal, as…

October 29, 2024 in Uncategorized.

Confidence, Career and Connections: The Real Value of Conferences

This interesting blog posted by Susie Walsh provides a useful insight into the value of conference attendance. Click here to read more about it

July 24, 2024 in Uncategorized.

Learning from events: Can higher education students reflect more ‘critically’ on their work-based experiences?

Dr Steven Cock from York Business School, York St John University, writes… When trying new activities or new ways of working, most people will have been told at some point…

July 2, 2024 in Uncategorized.

Inclusive research methodologies and the transformative power of engaging communities in the research process

by Spencer Swain As those reading this blog post might know, the School of Education, Languages and Psychology at York St John has been running a seminar series on inclusive…

May 31, 2024 in Uncategorized.

Collaborative Autoethnography as Research Method and Transformative Process in Higher Education

by Margaret Meredith and Margaret Wood Professor Kathy-Ann Hernandez from Eastern University, USA, and co-author of the book ‘Collaborative Autoethnography’ (2013) led an engaging online research seminar at York St…

January 29, 2024 in Research methodology.

‘Free range’ or ‘battery’ learning in universities?

by Dr. Margaret Meredith A quick scan of post-graduate level courses in the UK shows that there is an increasing trend for wholly or mainly online teaching and learning experiences.…

October 6, 2023 in Pedagogy.

Problems of Practice: the EdD vs the PhD

by Prof. Tom Dobson In July we held the inaugural Education Doctoral Summer Residential in the Creative Centre.   Attended by doctoral researchers of education studying on EdD and PhD programmes,…

October 6, 2023 in EdD - professional doctorate.

Embracing creative approaches on the professional doctorate in education.

What is a doctoral thesis in education? Embracing creative approaches on the professional doctorate in education. As Programme Leader for our flagship professional doctorate in education (EdD), I am delighted…

June 5, 2023 in EdD - professional doctorate, Uncategorized.

Recent Posts

  • Creating Space for Belonging: Reflections on Student Engagement and Social Impact
  • Beyond Bloom’s: A Pedagogy ‘Toolkit’ for Constructive Alignment in Higher Education
  • Thinking about the supervisory process as an act of hospitality
  • Decolonising Science Education in South Africa
  • From the ‘new’ to the ‘newer’ normal:  Organisational culture and change within Higher Education

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