Your 5min lunchtime read - on the Hidden Curriculum blog, from the always excellent @vaniev.bsky.social: How the sociomateriality of the hidden curriculum enables research culture. drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/h...

How the sociomateriality of the hidden curriculum enables research culture

Sasha Vaniev is a doctoral researcher in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. You can connect with Sasha via LinkedIn. What helps a business lecturer teach a large cohort, a math s…

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Q6 - What tools, prompts, or stems help you get “unstuck” when reflecting? Reply with A6 #LTHEChat and your response.

Q5 - How do you use triangulation to show change and evidence educational impact? Reply with A5 #LTHEChat and your response.

Q4 - Which evidence – student, peer, autobiographical, theoretical – best helps you show impact? Reply with A4 #LTHEChat and your response.

Articulating impact struggles? Locating cause and effect, risk of focussing only on some voices/impact over others, also the question of how do I see my impact vs our impact, and quantification is always tricky. #LTHEChat Q1

Q3 - What helps you move from describing events to interpreting their significance? Reply with A3 #LTHEChat and your response.

Q2 - Which of Brookfield’s Four Lenses do you lean on most - student, peer, autobiographical or theoretical – and which could help you triangulate better? Reply with A2 #LTHEChat and your response.

#LTHEchat A1 There is a pressure to notice and articulate pedagogic impact immediately - but sometimes impact only emerges slowly and over time - hence we may resort to describing what we have done - and the hope we have for what we did with respect to student development.

Q1 - What do you or others find hardest about articulating impact in reflective writing about educational practice? Reply with A1 #LTHEChat and your response.

What a great topic helping educators to demonstrate evidenced based practice through critical evaluation K3, V3 of #PSF2023! #LTHECHAT @maritag.bsky.social and @Steve McHanwell's book on evidencing achievement is also a great supplement to the topic. www.routledge.com/Evidencing-T...

Evidencing Teaching Achievements in Higher Education

This book demonstrates how university lecturers can document their impactful teaching and evidence their teaching achievements in the contemporary HE landscape. It is an essential read for all lecture...

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Join us for #LTHEchat with @hintondm.bsky.social at 8 pm BST today. lthechat.com/2026/04/12/l...

An excellent post by my colleague Professor Liz Austen on the scholarship of teaching and learning #SoTL “SoTL’s inherent value is the ability to build a community which improves student experiences and outcomes in an enquiry led and timely way.” srheblog.com/2026/04/14/i...

In defence of SoTL: anchoring educational evaluation and educational research

by Liz Austen By the end of 2025 I had attended three HE related conferences: Euro SoTL, the Wonkhe Festival of HE and the SRHE Annual Conference. I presented on similar topics at all three events;…

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Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher - a conversation with Stephen Brookfield focusing on Chapter 13. Negogiating the Risks of Critical Reflection doi.org/10.25416/NTR...

#JoinUs Wednesday talking Evidencing Educational Impact 💬💬

LTHEchat@lthechat.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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!

#BreakingNews Old Joe spotted at University of Oxford exploring new #recruitment opportunities. In other news University of Birmingham recruitment team awarded top prize for campaign. #AprilFools

Q6. What’s one practice that helps you sustain your own wellbeing ? Reply with A6 #LTHEChat and your response

Q5. What’s an example of “caring rigour”? Reply with A5 #LTHEChat and your response

Q4. How can we celebrate the relational side of learning and teaching? Reply with A4 #LTHEChat and your response

Q3. Where do you see emotional intelligence making the biggest difference? Reply with A3 #LTHEChat and your response

Q2. What leadership behaviours create positive energy? Reply with A2 #LTHEChat and your response

Q1. What does a “well” academic community look like to you? Reply with A1 #LTHEChat and your response

A6 being kind to myself that everything isn’t going to be perfect and keeping the connections I have with others - to offload/debrief and generally make it all more human

A1 A ‘well’ academic community is one where learning is visible and shared—students and staff in conversation, ideas being tested, informal exchange happening all the time. Saw this at the AA—felt like something many universities are quietly missing. #LTHEchat

One hour to go to get ready :) Read the blogpost lthechat.com/2026/03/23/l... and follow the hashtag #LTHEchat - it's that easy.

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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Q6: How can we best support ourselves and each other in the current UK HE context? Reply with A6 #LTHEChat and your response

Q5 What has helped you with a change of professional identity? Reply with A5 #LTHEChat and your response

Q4 Has your professional identity changed over time? Reply with A4 #LTHEChat and your response

Q3 What drives / determines your sense of professional identity? Reply with A3 #LTHEChat and your response

Q2 How does this relate to your professional identity? Reply with A2 #LTHEChat and your response

Q1 Does your role align with your official job title? Does it matter? Reply with A1 #LTHEChat and your response

A4 there's a lot of research in this invisible, pastoral work that often female staff take on, often agreeing to take it on but then having negative impact on promotion. www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/wi... I wonder who students would like to encourage them in mattering/belonging. #lthechat