Anna Walas offers advice for facilitating community engagement with research by considering ways in which effective engagement design can help overcome common barriers
Higher ed is notoriously bad at attracting and accommodating mature students. Given the workforce shifts spawned by the pandemic, this needs to change, says Dilshad Sheikh
Catherine Seeds explains how a growth mindset and willingness to experiment should be embraced as powerful teaching tools
Ruth Woodfield outlines steps that academics, students and university staff can take to support and work through the discomfort of difficult discussions
Rhianedd Smith shares insight on how to collaboratively create real-world learning experiences for students with professional partners
Finding ‘PhD pals’ in the same boat, but also learning to communicate your work effectively outside the research bubble, is crucial for ECRs, says Rebekah Ackroyd
Effective approaches universities can take to promote equity and improve student learning outcomes and employability, shared by a team from the University of Salford
Adam Kay explains how educators can effectively use an innovative, freely available, research-backed online mindfulness programme for student well-being
A university’s identity cannot be neatly packaged. It changes over time and has different meanings to the diverse groups that make up that institution, says Nic Beech
Josephine Bleach outlines questions that higher education institutions should ask to help them foster authentic community engagement that improves educational outcomes for children, families and communities
Clive Palmer looks at alternative approaches to PhDs that open postgraduate research to more candidates – for professional development, career change or just love of learning
Virtual, augmented and mixed reality can provide powerful experiences for students, and it’s probably not as difficult as you think. Neil McDonnell provides simple, practical advice
Ravinder Anand-Ivell explains how early investment of time and empathy can help international postgraduate research students adapt to a new environment
Well-designed virtual experiential learning could have far-reaching useful applications. Here three academics share lessons from developing effective virtual tours and field trips during the pandemic
Inspirational moments don’t usually happen by chance. Instead, many enabling factors must be put in place over the course of a career, say Peter Hogg and Jo Cresswell