* HERDSA Blog Post: HERDSA Connect Blog 2025 Wrap – Orals, Assessment & Human connection
* HERDSA Community: Widening the doors to underrepresented students - Exploring implications for online teaching and engagement
* HERDSA GRANTS OPEN
* HERDSA SoTL SIG -- This Friday! -- Reflect, Refresh, and Reimagine: Shaping Our SoTL SIG for 2026
* Global citizenship education in Korean higher education - podcast
* New articles in Higher Education Research and Development

To submit an announcement for this list complete the online form at http://herdsa.org.au/herdsa-notices

A full list of HERDSA Notices is online at http://www.herdsa.org.au/latest-news

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HERDSA Blog Post: HERDSA Connect Blog 2025 Wrap – Orals, Assessment & Human connection
Daniel Andrews, 17 December 2025

For the final HERDSA Connect blog of 2025, we have showcased six of the most impactful posts for 2025! 

Read more: https://herdsa.org.au/herdsa-connect/herdsa-connect-blog-2025-wrap

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HERDSA Community: Widening the doors to underrepresented students - Exploring implications for online teaching and engagement
HERDSA Online Engagement in Higher Education SIG, Thursday 20 November 2025

Dr Hilary Ng (Hong Kong Metropolitan University) and Associate Professor Alice Brown (University of Southern Queensland) facilitated the final Online Engagement in Higher Education SIG meeting for 2025. At the meeting a team of researchers shared key insights from an innovative project that employed think tank methodology, where online teaching and equity experts were invited to contribute their insights to the question ‘What would an increase in online enrolments of underrepresented students mean for the online teaching and engagement strategies we currently employ?’ Discussion focussed on centering the student voice and cultural knowledge, interrogating digital literacy assumptions, pedagogical principles across modalities, cross-Institutional and international perspectives and future directions for online engagement.

Read more: https://herdsa.org.au/news/widening-doors-underrepresented-students

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HERDSA GRANTS OPEN
3 December 2025 to 20 March 2026

HERDSA offers grants to HERDSA members to fund research and/or development projects on teaching and learning in higher education that directly align to the mission of HERDSA. In the 2026 round, up to ten grants of AUD$5000 each are available (plus GST for expenses accruing in Australia). Priority for one grant will be given to applicants identifying as Indigenous/First Nations (e.g., Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, Māori or Pacific Nations).

The call for 2026 HERDSA Grant applications opens in December 2025. Applications close on Friday 20th March 2026 by 6pm (AEDT). Successful applicants will be informed by the end of May 2025. Grant holders have one year to complete their projects. Grant progress reports are due end of January 2027 and final reports end of June 2027.

Further information: https://herdsa.org.au/herdsa-grants-scheme

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HERDSA SoTL SIG -- This Friday! -- Reflect, Refresh, and Reimagine: Shaping Our SoTL SIG for 2026
Friday, 19 December 2025 12–1pm AEDT (NSW/VIC); 11am–12pm AEST (QLD time)

Join us for the final HERDSA SoTL SIG meeting of the year as we reflect on 2025, celebrate our achievements, and look ahead to what’s next. This interactive session will invite your ideas on future directions, priorities, and ways to grow and enhance our community. Your input will help shape the SIG’s activities and focus for 2026 — come ready to share, connect, and collaborate!

Register here: https://unisq.zoom.us/meeting/register/rT5UexjmRfCDHWnCrZb1zQ#/registration

Join our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14343410/

Further information: Contact the SoTL SIG at herdsa.sotl.sig@gmail.com

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Global citizenship education in Korean higher education - podcast

A recent Global Citizenship Education Interview Series podcast discussed a recent article in Higher Education Research and Development:

Global citizenship education in Korean higher education: moving beyond transformative calls to praxes

The episode can be viewed at https://youtu.be/C3ZxsGeJsXc

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New articles in Higher Education Research and Development

From belonging to mattering to trust: the experiences of minoritised ethnic students in UK higher education, Claire Hamshire, Ryan Gerald Wilkinson, Rachel Forsyth & Awo Abdi, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2552319

How a responsive digital pedagogy using the students against academic misconduct framework decreased academic integrity breaches, Anthony Weber, Robert Vanderburg, Michael Cowling, Michelle Vanderburg & Paul Trotter, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2025.2586662

Advance or retreat? Young female faculty members’ contradictory choices and coping strategies in Chinese elite universities, Jie Tian & Qiang Zhang, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2591331

Was I experiencing sexual harassment by a professor at the university? An autoethnography, Michelle W. T. Cheng, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2593917

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In the spirit of reconciliation HERDSA acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australasia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.