Urgent matters of insight: Upholding gaps in higher education research, teaching and learning for super-complexity

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

To date, Covid-19 has not only highlighted the interconnectedness of societies and individuals, but also that educational endeavours privileging the cultivation of particular human qualities...

Respecting the role of the physical body in teaching and learning

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

Covid-19 has shed light on the day-to-day life of teaching and learning. As parents began home-schooling and teachers adapted to innovative ways of connecting with students online, in our...

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

This collection of blogs, guest-edited by Gabriella Buttarazzi, explores how we can adopt responsive and creative approaches to teaching, learning and research in higher education during times of...

Reflections on building rapport with university students in an online context

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

As with other educators, the rapid shift to online delivery during lockdown has led to self-reflection on my teaching skills, how they transfer online, and my ability to use online tools...

Flipping the course curriculum: Digital engagement for active learning

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

Digital engagement has steadily become an important part of an educator’s pedagogic repertoire since universities started offering courses online in the early 2000s. In light of the Covid-19...

Building on Covid-19 experiences for future organisational improvisations

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

This recent period of responding to the Covid-19 pandemic has been particularly unexpected and required a very rapid response by everyone across university systems. The use of online delivery as...

Values first, goals second

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

I have a certain disquiet about the way we in higher education so often relate success and failure to the attainment or otherwise of goals. This focus on goals is present at all levels of...

Taking a year out? The ambitious teleology of higher education for cultivating a self-aware society

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

In the much-quoted Heraclitean aphorism, ‘the road up and down is one and the same’ (see for example Russell, 2004, p. 51), the pre-Socratic philosopher introduces a radical relativism and...

Flattening the awarding gap through identity work

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

The awarding gap is starkest between the likelihood of White (domiciled) students and Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) (domiciled) students being awarded a ‘good’ degree in the United...

Digital equity: Learning in lockdown for the autistic student

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

Many of us in the higher education sector are frantically working to place our modules online. This digital transformation at pace can result in short-term decisions, so it is imperative that at...

Engaging international students in the UK: The experiences of Christian churches

International student mobility has been increasingly affected by politics, culture, economics, natural disasters and public health. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic this year, we have witnessed the...

The impact of Covid-19 and the UK public lockdown on postgraduate research students in the UK

Covid-19, education and educational research

While disruption to educational ‘norms’ has received coverage since the public lockdown, less attention has been shown to the impact of the public lockdown on postgraduate research students....