28/05/2026
UPDATES on all things T&L 28.05.26
*** Drawing Research Network events and more: https://blog.lboro.ac.uk/tracey/drn-conferences/
*** RSC Reports on power of arts education: https://www.rsc.org.uk/research/current-research/rapid-evidence-reviews
#154: Supporting Higher Apprentices: Dustin Hosseini reflects on some minor changes that he made to a research module, which is a part of a paramedic science degree apprenticeship, designed to increase student success: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/take5-154-supporting-apprentices-how-small-tweaks-to-a-module-course-can-lead-to-successful-student-writers/
L&T Chatshow Podcasts
06.05.26: Mary Kitchener and Jill Dickinson talking about their research into Pracademics - academics who enter university life from industry or other professional practice: https://open.spotify.com/episode/16mRsEvBjttgf5BnjRK5J6
13.05.26: Joe Toko talking about his research into the effectiveness of feedback: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3qgEepbrmYEnFyCypDv79w
20.05.26: Rebekah Watson talking about her work using poetry in leadership training:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7luqiKCQSZdrSiOBu4E9xT
Teaching in HE Podcasts
14.05.26: Jennifer Wallace shares about her book, Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose on episode 622 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast: https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/why-mattering-matters-with-jennifer-wallace/
21.05.26: Rebecca Fordon unpacks vibe coding and the eight AI teaching tools she built in a single semester on episode 623 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast: https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/cant-stop-wont-stop-teaching-with-ai-tools-with-rebecca-fordon/
IJSaP 10(1) is published: We are delighted to announce that the 19th issue of the International Journal for Students as Partners (IJSaP): https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/ijsap/issue/current - 29 manuscripts — 12 research articles, 10 case studies, 5 reflective essays, a participant review, and a Voices from the Field.
SEDA: 06.05.26: De Louise Grisedale: https://thesedablog.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/from-ego-bruise-to-breakthrough-rethinking-reflective-practice-in-sfhea-applications/
OPEN BOOKS:
New open-access book is available through the WAC Clearinghouse : Bad Ideas about AI and Writing: Generative Practices for Teaching, Learning, and Communication- Edited by Christopher Basgier, Anna Mills, Mandy Olejnik, Miranda Rodak, and Shyam Sharma
In Research is the Poetry, Sandra L. Tarabochia demonstrates the promise of poetic inquiry, the arts-based method of creating poems with, as, and in relation to qualitative research data. Informed by studies from a range of disciplines, each chapter introduces a particular poetic research practice and features dynamic examples from Tarabochia’s eight-year longitudinal study of faculty writing lives. Thorough discussion of the affordances and challenges of each approach and guiding questions for reflection prompt readers to imagine when, why, and how they might practice poetic inquiry in their own research contexts. Candidly sharing her own process of discovering and learning the method, Tarabochia makes a compelling case for poetic inquiry as a form of methodological surrender, a way of loosening our grip on certainty and what we think we know about scholarly meaning making. Research is the Poetry shows writing researchers how to tap into the human dimensions of our work and begin to know, be, and do differently: .
UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Transdisciplinary Experiments: Research, teaching and institutionalisation edited by Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, Wendy Sims-Schouten and Jack Tsao: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/transdisciplinary-experiments/
UCL Press is delighted to share the open-access edited volume: Critical Perspectives on Academic Writing, published last week by UCL Press: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/critical-perspectives-on-academic-writing/
From one of the co-editors of Stories of Hope, Richard Heller - a new open book: Distributing Knowledge: Openness, Equity, and Higher Education Transformation
https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0520
Christopher Basgier, Terry Myers Zawacki, Magnus Gustafsson, Sue Hum, and Maureen Mathison (Eds) Copy edited by Don Donahue. Designed by Mike Palmquist:.Writing Worldviews: Extended Scholarly Conversations from IWAC 2023: https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspectives/worldviews/
In this blog, Dustin Hosseini reflects on some minor changes that he made to a research module, which is a part of a paramedic science degree apprenticeship,
