Inclusive teaching and mentoring for structural change: Reflections on the CIfA conference 2023 (Part 2!) – 11th May 2023

This is the second part of my reflections on April’s CIfA conference in Nottingham. The first part (which you can read here) focused on my thoughts around EDI, CIfA’s code of conduct, ethics and structural change that is needed in the profession. Those themes underpin this second reflection but also connect much more with teaching …

EDI activism and the need for structural change: Reflections on the CIfA conference 2023 (Part 1!) – 28th April 2023

Buckle up folks, it’s quite a long one today….! Though if you haven’t the time, the TLDR is that what I learnt from attending the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA) annual conference in Nottingham last week is that brilliant people are doing amazing work to try and change our profession, but we still need profound, …

18th April 2023: AI Bingo and a radical rethinking of Higher Education at the Times Higher Education Digital Universities Conference

I wrote a blog entry about the T&L roundtable that Karina and I ran on AI back in February of this year. It has only been a few months since then but the frenzy around AI seems to be continuing apace within Higher Education and beyond. At my own institution a number of working groups …

17th March 2023: AdvanceHE’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conference 2023

This week I was really lucky to attend AdvanceHE’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conference in Hull (supported to attend very kindly by the University of Manchester's Institute of Teaching and Learning). If you’re not familiar with them, AdvanceHE are “a member-led charity of and for the [Higher Education] sector that works with partners across the …