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I am pleased to share that we are looking for a new senior lecturer to join our team at @qmuniversity.bsky.social Please share with your networks and feel free to get in touch to discuss the role.
Find out more and apply here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK093/s...
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Compassionate Assessment Practice Sharing Symposium, 11 September 2025
We are pleased to announce that the Compassionate Assessment Network is hosting an online symposium. We warmly invite educators, researchers, policymakers and administrators to join us. Call out for submission details here:
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#compassion; #belonging; #social #justice; #pedagogy; Higher Education; policy
Stories of Hope: Reimagining Education - edited by Sandra Abegglen Tom Burns 🖤Richard Heller,
RajanMadhok, Fabian Neuhaus, @John Sandars, Sandra Singield and Upasana Gitanjali S. - 2025 - Open Book Publishers
person-centred resources can support more inclusive and humane pedagogies. They outline practical strategies for embedding an ecology of compassion within institutions and highlight the necessity of systemic, institutional commitment to challenge inequitable policies and practices in HE.
cultivation of belonging through relational learning communities that honour interconnectedness, shared humanity, and equitable power dynamics.
Through a case study of a digital educational development platform, the authors demonstrate how compassionately designed, co-produced, dialogic, and
30. Belonging through compassion: Supporting hope through the design of a website for educational development and social justice books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...
This chapter advocates for a compassionate approach to HE as a pathway to achie social justice. Central to this vision is the
This was such an important piece of work for us on our journey to understand #compassion, #trauma-informed practice and #belonging in academic enhancement and digital spaces. There are so many people to thank for this... Thank you again to the amazing editors for pulling this together!
I am so happy to be part of this fantastic collection of academics sharing their 'stories of hope' as an invitation to reimagine education. The chapter that @Liz Bunting and I contributed is a reflection on the development of our website belongingthroughcompassion.myblog.arts.ac.uk
Thanks Amanda! 😊
“Turnitin monetizes student intellectual property and contributes to a culture of suspicion in education.”
I’m quoted in a recent article from @themarkup.org @calmatters.org and @chronicle.com
themarkup.org/artificial-i...
"How can we move towards thinking about assessment as a relational and ethical act?" This is a question that Dr Karen Gravett, Associate Head (Research), @uniofsurrey.bsky.social explores as part of our new video series on Compassionate Assessment in Higher Education.
Watch here: lnkd.in/eASbPEeb
The team behind the QAA-funded Collaborative Enhancement Project 'Compassionate assessment in higher education' have launched a Compassionate Assessment Network. The next session (26th March) explores the impact of AI on alternative compassionate learning environments. Sign up here: buff.ly/kSXPsyp
Alex Buckley keynoting at the assessment in the higher education conference
#aheconference25 Alex Buckley if Heriot Watt University asks us to question our assessment assumptions at the end of the conference A hard ask at this stage of the conference but we are up for it!
Enjoyed this very thought-provoking masterclass with @vikkihill.bsky.social about potential of pass/fail.assessment in HE. Lots to take away and think about for future practice!
Thanks Amanda! Glad you enjoyed 😊
How do you embed UDL acorss a whole programme for an engaging and inclusive feedback environment. An insightful poster pitch from Dr Laura Costello with practical implementation tips and QR codes for relevant further resources 👏
#Aheconference25
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I’ll be giving away at the very end of #aheconference25 a hardback copy of 6th edition of The Lecturer’s Toolkit by @philrace.bsky.social and me with help from brilliant friends inc @kaysambell.bsky.social @suebecks.bsky.social @profpeter1.bsky.social @it-se.bsky.social &more Discount Code below
The Padlet contains the presentation slides and various guides including:
The Alchemists Grimoire of Assessment Transformation
The Alchemists Cupboard of Curiosities
Prompt Engineering 101 for Academics
#aheconference25
Conference participants using their phones and iPads to link to the session Padlet
#aheconference25 brilliant session led by @suebecks.bsky.social on the wizardry of AI: so many innovative ideas and lots of participation and conversation Sue will be putting the slides up on the padlet in a short while which will include the QR code Here’s a photo of participants linking to it !
Over 100,000 people are marching through The Hague against Israel's war on Gaza.
Wearing red clothing and forming a line, they are demanding the government draw a red line in its stance against Israel.
It's the largest protest in the Netherlands in 20 years.
Come and join us for Compassionate Alternative Assessment: a reason and a result of Equity in the GenAI Era with @elianaelkhoury.bsky.social , Tuesday 25 March 3-4pm GMT (Online)
Book through the #Compassionate #Assessment in HE Network page shorturl.at/rMWjT
@qaa.ac.uk @ncurrant.bsky.social
Really pleased to have my article published in JPAAP. Colleagues who participated were incredibly generous and I learnt so much from them 🙏 . The process of combining arts-based methods with evaluation methodologies was fun to grapple with. 😊
jpaap.ac.uk/JPAAP/articl...
There are loads of folk to thank for supporting this work.
@ncurrant.bsky.social @kerrcastle.bsky.social @janmcarthur.bsky.social @profsambroadhead.bsky.social @katiemckee.bsky.social @annatroisi.bsky.social @elianaelkhoury.bsky.social @juusonieminen.bsky.social
I’m super pleased to share the recordings from our @qaa.ac.uk
Collaborative Enhancement Project - the #Compassionare #Assessment in HE Network. It’s a privilege to speak to so many fantastic colleagues committed to reducing harmful assessment practices and policies. www.qaa.ac.uk/membership/c...
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The Compassionate Assessment Network would like to invite you to our next event on Wednesday 5th March at 12noon (UTC / GMT). Trauma Informed Pedagogies and Compassionate Assessment in Scotland. We are really pleased to host @Sarah-Jane Linton and @EwanLaw from Fife College
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Thanks Simon! Hopefully Eric is coming back in April to extend the conversation. Will keep you posted! 😊
Thrilled to have been able to host some amazing speakers for our @qmuniversity.bsky.social #LEAD INSIGHTS talks. Today we welcomed Dr #EricEkembe who spoke about #Decolonising the curriculum in neoliberal economies: Reframing power relations and hierarchies in education.
The QMU LEAD Team kicked off IMMERSE this week - our 2 day introductory course to teaching & learning at @qmuniversity.bsky.social . It was brilliant meeting new colleagues from both campus and partner institutions. Many thanks to those that led a sesssion and to the fab participants! 😊
