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Inside IJAD: What We Learned from Four Journal Editors About Getting Published

How many academic journals do you know that let you submit a 250-word proposal for a paper and then provide constructive feedback before you commit the time and energy to a complete manuscript? The International Journal for Academic Development (IJAD) is one such supportive journal — and as we discovered, this developmental approach is what the journal is aiming to do.

HERDSA Notices 8 October 2025

* HERDSA Blog Post: ‘Don’t be sorry, just declare it’: safeguarding the integrity of the essay
* Register for the HERDSA Academic Development SIG Webinar next week
* Final 2025 HERDSA Online in HE - SiG event - Widening the Doors in HE: Implications for Engaging Underrepresented Student Online
* Never a better time to join HERDSA - New HERDSA SoTL Modules Coming Soon
* CRADLE celebrates 10 years! "The road behind and the journey ahead" - 10th anniversary seminar
* Uni student wellbeing research hub webinar

NSW Branch nominates a new Branch Executive

The NSW branch continues to provide professional leadership opportunities while supporting HE policy, T&L practice and SoTL, exemplified by our new branch executive committee. Nominations were sort  by the 1 October 2025 from all HERDSA members across NSW, for roles spanning from leadership in governance, membership co-ordination, communication and event planning. Special congratulations to Gina Saliba (ACAP) who is stepping up into a Co-Chair role after her extemporary work as our Events lead.

HERDSA Notices 1 October 2025

* HERDSA Blog Post: Do Educators Need to Understand the Gen Z Stare?
* HERDSA Community: HERDSA SA announces the outcome of its small grants applications for 2025!
* The Pedagogy of Student Belonging and Wellbeing Special Interest Group Meeting 25/9/25, 12pm
* Special Issue Call: Learning & Teaching with Social Justice in the University Classroom: Contemporary Approaches & Challenges
* CRADLE celebrates 10 years! "The road behind and the journey ahead" - 10th anniversary seminar

bringing together educators passionate about enhancing student connection, wellbeing, and engagement in higher education

The Pedagogy of Student Belonging and Wellbeing Special Interest Group (SIG) held its first official meeting on Thursday, 25 September 2025, bringing together educators passionate about enhancing student connection, wellbeing, and engagement in higher education.

HERDSA Notices 24 September 2025

* HERDSA Blog Post: From Facts to Fun: How Gamified Learning Transformed a Nutrition Course
* New HERSDA SoTL Modules Coming Soon – Module 3 – Foundations of producing SoTL
* CRADLE celebrates 10 years! "The road behind and the journey ahead" - 10th anniversary seminar
* CRADLE webinar series: New Directions in AI Research and Practice - 'Secure assessment tasks in a time of GenAI'
* New articles in Higher Education Research and Development

From vision to practice: Wrapping up the Australasian Symposium on Programmatic Approaches to Assessment

On 19 September 2025, educators, researchers and practitioners across Australasia gathered online for the inaugural Australasian Symposium on Programmatic Approaches to Assessment. Hosted by the ASCILITE Transforming Assessment SIG and the HERDSA Assessment Quality SIG, the symposium was alive with presentations, case studies, and a buzzing chat stream that often took discussions in new directions.

Setting the scene

HERDSA SA announces the outcome of its small grants applications for 2025!

HERDSA SA is delighted to announce the outcome of our small grants applications for 2025! This initiative is aimed at building capacity at a local level with applicants from HERDSA SA partnering with other HERDSA members from different institutions within or outside of the state under leadership of a mentor to enhance their SoTL research practice. The winning teams were as follows:

HERDSA Notices 17 September 2025

* HERDSA Blog Post: Empowering Students to Learn How to Learn: A Student-Centred Approach to Self-Regulated Learning
* HERDSA SoTL SIG -- This Friday!! -- IMPORTANT update below -- Connect and collaborate!
* Are you keen to progress your SoTL project or impact of your SoTL work - Join me for a virtual coffee and chat SoTL
* Exciting news - Upcoming release of the newly update HERDSA SoTL Modules
* CRADLE webinar series: New Directions in AI Research and Practice - 'Secure assessment tasks in a time of GenAI'

Are our students really learning? Reflect, rethink, redesign

Join HERDSA Vic for a workshop/webinar to explore the fundamentals of learning, including how we learn, key principles of learning, and the role of active learning. Inspired by the ongoing discussions around generative AI in education, participants will tackle the critical question: In what ways can the use of GenAI in the learning process compromise student learning or, alternatively, enable deeper learning?

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