Technical staff who support student learning deserve more professional recognition
Technical staff who deliver student-focused learning deserve more professional opportunities. Jodie Chatfield and Lindsay Davies explain how to provide tailored…
Taking digital accessibility from mandate for change to business as usual
To support the student community, digital accessibility needs to be embedded across teaching and learning. Here, Julian Tenney offers insights and steps based on his…
Don’t jettison traditional academic writing just yet
Academic writing is transforming – into comics, podcasts, installations – but that doesn’t mean bog-standard peer-reviewed papers are less key to…
THE podcast: breaking down barriers with research and student-led campaigns
Winners of the Times Higher Education 2021 Awards discuss how their research and student-led campaigns navigate difficult and taboo topics
Teaching within virtual reality worlds: what, why and when
Gary Burnett offers five pointers on when and how teaching in virtual reality worlds can successfully enhance learning
How to improve the public understanding of evidence
The ability to critically analyse information and differentiate fact from fiction is a skill needed far beyond higher education. So how can academics trained in…
Peer review is frustrating and flawed – here’s how we can fix it
What would peer review 2.0 look like? Mark Humphries offers ways to optimise the process for better efficiency and research outcomes
Supporting cybersecurity literacy for workforce-ready graduates
Employers need a cybersecurity-literate workforce, and higher education could play a valuable role in filling the gap
Health workers need tech training – for themselves and their patients
There are huge risks involved if current and future healthcare professionals have to take up new forms of practice such as video consultations without …
In this together: developing meaningful community engagement
Anna Walas offers advice for facilitating community engagement with research by considering ways in which effective engagement design can help overcome common…
Strangers in a strange land: how supervisors can support international research students
Ravinder Anand-Ivell explains how early investment of time and empathy can help international postgraduate research students adapt to a new environment
