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My undergrads often have no idea about what I do, other than pop up to gives lectures once a week. My postgrads, who want to get into academia, aren't always well informed about what that means either. So I started drafting this. What say you, #AcademicTwitter? What'd I miss?

How can wellbeing be embedded actively and purposefully into the curriculum? In today's post, Dr Maddie Kurchik Moray House School of Education and Sport and Dr Jenny Scoles Jenny Scoles Institute for Academic Development Edinburgh Futures Institute explain this using the example of Students as Change Agents Students as Change Agents teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/doing-curricul…

Back in beautiful Utrecht for #issotl2023. Looking forward to catching up with colleagues from all over!

Fantastic panel to kick start #issotl2023 in the beautiful railway museum. Top marks for the fresh stroop waffles served at coffee time. Looking forward to presenting about impact and academic blogging at 2pm in Foyer Bedrijfsschol

Learning ‘Dutch for Dummies’ at the fringe events… Mijn naam is Jenny. Ik werk in Edinburgh. Boom! Nailed it. #issotl2023

Fuel for this mornings 8.45 presentation with @curriculargeek on emerging pedagogical strategies to teaching wicked problems. Please join us if the lie-in didn’t win! #ISSOTL23

#ISSOTL23 Scoles & Tauritz discuss Negotiating Wicked Learning Contexts: emerging #pedagogical approaches to teaching #wickedProblems . Wicked problems are real world issues w messy problems that have no easy answer. #ClimateChange is a classic example

Thank you #issotl2023 - you were fantabulous. Only reconfirmed how much I love Utrecht 🥰 thank you for hosting Academic Teaching and Learning @irma_meijerman. Home time.

Lovely to have some time do focus on other projects but missing my awesome conference team and the frenetic planning!

Great to see this article out in open access: Full article: Academic identities and teaching wicked problems: how to ‘shoot a fog’ in a complex landscape ⁦@velmc⁩ ⁦@rltauritz⁩ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Prof Velda McCune Institute for Academic Development highlights the importance of meaningful dialogue and suggests realistic and practical strategies to improve feedback culture in the context of current Higher Education funding and workload models. #Feedback #HigherEducation ➡️teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/why-we-need-di…

A delicate dance between parenthood and PhD pursuit - Joséphine Foucher School of Social & Political Science Edinburgh Institute for Academic Development artfully shares lessons learned from finding balance amidst challenges, unveiling the boundless depths of love and resilience of human spirit. #phdlife ➡️teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/agitating-my-t…

Super lovely to see our paper highlighted 🥰

Higher Education Research and Development v.43 n.1 15 new articles → tandfonline.com/toc/cher20/43/1 🇦🇺🇸🇪🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇰🇮🇹🇭🇰🇨🇳🇳🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦🇿🇦 #HigherEd #Universities #LTHEchat #SOTL #UniversityTeaching #UniversityStudents @TandFEducation @HERDSA3

For anyone who missed them this weekend...

The memories are stlll vivid even 6 years on! Hoping my advice on HOW to answer PhD viva questions (rather than WHAT) will help others…

Viving la viva: how to answer viva questions. Preparing for a #PhD #viva can be stressful, but there are steps you can take to ensure you answer the examiners’ questions well. On #THECampus, The University of Edinburgh’s Jenny Scoles (Jenny Scoles) provides some tips bit.ly/4bFyq3y

If ‘academic X’ is sinking, where are research organisations going? You can find Andy here https://linktr.ee/andy_tatt in the LSE Impact Blog on #AcademicTwitter / #AcademicX blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

Fun to be on the other side of the blogging experience, and write for Institute for Academic Development IAD4RESEARCHERS blog for #AcWriFest24 about the benefits and impact of academic blogging. blogs.ed.ac.uk/iad4researcher…

Why write a Learning & Teaching Strategy when you can write a MANIFESTO! Jenny Scoles, Maddie Winter & Clare Cullen share their provocative 11 principles for Interdisciplinary Learning & Teaching- do you agree?? Read more: edin.ac/3VmClfS #interdisciplinarity #manifesto