Fran Sutherland
@fransez.bsky.social
Educational developer | Senior fellow | #Iraqi HE researcher | mum to a Klementine🍊🥁 Dabbling here since the Xodus
"political literacy is no longer simply an advantage, but an essential part of active citizenship" 👏👏 Top stuff from @rosegann.bsky.social @anaisabelnunes.bsky.social theconversation.com/a-level-resu...
A-level results: why politics is the fastest growing subject
Young people are not disengaged from politics but increasingly interested in understanding it.
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Live music 🚨 #klementines next gig (post A level comeback:)) @ corp #sheffield 12th Sept. Tix www.fatsoma.com/e/6kl2xfkt/e...
Britain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian Wolmar
Britain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian Wolmar
Larger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage, says says transport commentator Christian Wolmar
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Anyways always listen to Iraqis. Our fears are legitimate. Our concerns are valid. We are not overreacting. We are not being hysterical or dramatic. Our voices are essential in telling our story.
Q2 - How do you use storytelling as a pedagogic tool in your subject specialist area of teaching or educational practice? Reply with A2 #LTHEChat and your response.
Sheff indie band the #klementines 1st single out today #music #pop #sheffield #proudmommoment open.spotify.com/album/2Dael8...
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Echoes of a lost homeland: art, memory, and the invisible scars of violence - Subjectivity
This article investigates the intersection of nostalgia, memory, and artistic representation in preserving and reimagining homelands that no longer exist due to war, transformation, or displacement. T...
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#LoveLD - love #LTHEchat: Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 15th March at 8pm BST with guest Danielle Hinton (@hintondm.bsky.social to discuss Brookfield’s Four Lenses: lthechat.com/2026/04/12/l...
LTHEchat 360: Through the Prism: Illuminating Educational Impact with Brookfield’s Four Lenses
Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 15th March at 8pm GMT with guest Danielle Hinton (@hintondm.bsky.social to discuss Brookfield’s Four Lenses! Introduction Educators in Higher Education…
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AI products are reaching further into our lives. Does it matter who controls the companies behind them? | Van Badham
AI products are reaching further into our lives. Does it matter who controls the companies behind them? | Van Badham
Every organisation needs guardrails that channel them away from human fallibility and collectively minimise the harm they can do
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Join us tonight at 8pm BST where we'll be exploring 'Academic wellbeing, emotional energy and caring leadership: why care is a superpower in challenging times' with @deebaparmar.bsky.social Read the blog for more info: lthechat.com/2026/03/23/l...
LTHEchat 359: Academic wellbeing, emotional energy and caring leadership: why care is a superpower in challenging times
Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 25th March at 8pm GMT with guest Deeba Parmar (@deebaparmar.bsky.social) to discuss Academic Wellbeing, Emotional Energy and Caring Leadership! –…
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Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 25th March at 8pm GMT with guest Deeba Parmar (@deebaparmar.bsky.social) to discuss Academic Wellbeing, Emotional Energy and Caring Leadership!
LTHEchat 359: Academic wellbeing, emotional energy and caring leadership: why care is a superpower in challenging times
Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 25th March at 8pm GMT with guest Deeba Parmar (@deebaparmar.bsky.social) to discuss Academic Wellbeing, Emotional Energy and Caring Leadership! - Higher education continues to navigate significant challenge. Change is constant, expectations are high and the pace can feel unrelenting. In these moments it is often the visible outputs that take priority: delivery, performance, metrics.
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Join us this Wednesday 18th March at 8 pm GMT where we’ll be exploring the Use of Humour in Higher Education with @hankumna.bsky.social
LTHEchat 358: Academics’ Use of Humour Styles in Higher Education Teaching
Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 18th March at 8pm GMT with guest Hannah Robinson to discuss the Use of Humour in Higher Education Teaching. Have you ever found yourself making a joke or laughing at yourself during your lectures? Research evidence shows most academics report that they use humour with their students. The use of humour in education has been reported to effect different areas of students’ educational experiences such as their wellbeing, the classroom environment, relationships, and learning outcomes.
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Join us for this week’s #LTHEchat which will explore 'Academics’ Use of Humour Styles in Higher Education Teaching’ with @hankumna.bsky.social on Wednesday 8-9pm BST. Read the blog post at:
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The weekly Learning and Teaching in HE chat created by the community for the community - Wednesday 8-9pm
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Undeniably I seem to get a lot less cranky with woman voice Siri than man voice…🤔
Q2 What does a valid and secure assessment look like in your area of interest right now? Reply with A2 #LTHEChat and your response
Q1 How does GenAI prompt us to re-examine what “valued forms of knowledge” look like in areas you teach or support students in? Reply with A1 #LTHEChat and your response
One hour to go to get ready :) Read the blogpost lthechat.com/2026/03/06/l... and follow the hashtag #LTHEchat - it's that easy.
LTHEchat 357: Talking About GenAI in Higher Education As If Education Came First
Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 11th March at 8pm GMT with guest Rachel Forsyth to discuss GenAI in higher education. In many conversations about generative AI in higher education, th…
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Tribute and Marxist materialist positioning of the recently murdered Iraqi feminist Yanar - RIP. By @mehiyar.bsky.social www.counterfire.org/article/the-...
The life and work of Iraqi Communist and Feminist Yanar Mohammed
Following the assassination of Yanar Mohammed on 2 March, Dr Mehiyar Kathem Al Sa’edi pays tribute to a fighter for women’s rights Born in Baghdad in 1960, Yanar Mohammed graduated from the Baghdad...
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Join us for next week’s #LTHEchat which will explore “Talking About GenAI in Higher Education As If Education Came First” with @rmforsyth.bsky.social on Wednesday 1tth March 8-9pm BST. Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2026/03/06/l...
LTHEchat 357: Talking About GenAI in Higher Education As If Education Came First
Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 11th March at 8pm GMT with guest Rachel Forsyth to discuss GenAI in higher education. In many conversations about generative AI in higher education, th…
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Yanar Mohammed [RIP] and Iraq’s Struggle for Gender Equality and Accountability. by Taif Alkhudary, Hayder Al-Shakeri blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2026/03/...
Yanar Mohammed and Iraq’s Struggle for Gender Equality and Accountability - Middle East Centre
On 2 March 2026, Iraqi feminist and human rights defender Yanar Mohammed was shot and killed outside her home in Baghdad by unidentified gunmen. Her assassination came just one day before so-called Ir...
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Don’t forget to join us tomorrow, Wednesday 8-9pm BST, for #LTHEchat, which will explore "Algorithmic Bias of Social Media: Should Educators Teach Students How Social Media Bias Shapes Knowledge?" with @oliviakellyou.bsky.social Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2026/02/27/l...
LTHEchat 356: Algorithmic Bias of Social Media: Should Educators Teach Students How Social Media Bias Shapes Knowledge?
Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 4th March at 8pm GMT with guest Dr Olivia Kelly to discuss how algorithmic bias can influence what students see on social media and what our role as ed…
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There really is a new geopolitics of higher education with respect to AI. It maps pretty neatly onto which countries prioritise STEM vs. Social Science/Humanities. Watch South Korea. It's the country that appears to be sitting right on top of the fault line.
As the analysis starts of the Gorton and Denton result, I wanted to flag some aspects that my experience yesterday suggests are being over or under-played (Caveats - I went to Longsight, Gorton and Denton town centres and spoke to as many people as I could, but it was mostly during the working day)
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸@jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 7mo agoUnflinching refusal to use or allow the use of A.I. in reading & writing should be the uncontroversial, default position of teachers from K-12 to colleges & universities. If our administrators tell us we "have to" we tell them to eff off. We will not kill the planet's water for systemic plagiarism.
We hosted a second "Avoiding AI" panel earlier this month. It featured three faculty sharing their strategies for keeping AI (mostly) out of their courses. Here's my recap of the event: cte.virginia.edu/news/more-st...
More Strategies for Avoiding AI — UVA Center for Teaching Excellence
More UVA faculty share their strategies for directing students away from the use of AI in course assignments and activities.
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2 days to go before #LTHEchat this week! This week we will feature @2standandstare.bsky.social exploring: ‘Shifting sands and professional identities in Higher Education’. Check out the blog for more details: lthechat.com/2026/02/20/l...
LTHEchat 355: Shifting sands and professional identities in Higher Education
Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 25th February at 8pm GMT with guest Samantha Ahern to discuss “Shifting sands and professional identities in Higher Education”. Change in H…
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‘"Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom." ~ Albert Einstein
I was mildly incensed at the latest use of 'Mickey Mouse degree' as a derogatory term for any course that's not directly industry-tied and/or actually helps develop critical thinking skills, to the point where I wanted to write something about it. drsamuelsaunders.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/w...
What’s wrong with a ‘Mickey Mouse’ degree? As it turns out, absolutely nothing.
A few readers might have seen a comment I recently put on a LinkedIn post from Times Higher Ed COO Phil Baty, who was playing anti-university bingo with Suella Braverman’s, Reform UK’s …
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