HERDSA Notices 20 November 2024

* HERDSA Blog Post: Empowering Professional Identity Formation: Pathways to Success
* It's not too late to contribute to this important Think Tank - Widening the doors in HE - Implications to online engagement
* HERDSA WEBINAR: Curriculum, Assessment & AI: Real World Applications. Join us for this hybrid event!
* CAULT-HERDSA Joint Awards
* CRADLE Seminar Series: A house of cards? Equity-group students’ experiences of navigating university
* Request for Participants: How academics maintain resilience and wellbeing using workplace technology
* New articles in Higher Education Research and Development // Follow HERD on Bluesky

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HERDSA Blog Post: Empowering Professional Identity Formation: Pathways to Success
Abigail Lewis, 20 November 2024

In this post, Abigail Lewis delves into the key factors shaping the professional identity of health science students

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It's not too late to contribute to this important Think Tank - Widening the doors in HE - Implications to online engagement
Nov 26th - 1pm AEST - QLD time; Nov 27 9am AEST - QLD time & Nov 28th 12pm AEST - QLD

An invitation to participate in an industry Think Tank - Widening the doors in HE - Implications for teaching online students
Are you an experienced online teacher, or do you conduct research focused on online learning or engagement in higher education?
Are you a strong advocate, or researcher focused on, increasing equitable participation and student success in higher education?

If your work or research fits into one or both of these areas, please register to join and contribute to one of three Think Tanks being held during the last week of November. Think Tank participants will be invited to provide their insights and respond to the following question: What would an increase in online enrolments of underrepresented students mean for the online teaching and engagement strategies we currently employ? 

The Think Tanks are motivated by key themes evidenced in the Australian Universities Accord Final report (Australian Government, 2024). The report strongly emphasises the importance of increased access to underrepresented students in higher education. While the goal of ‘widening the doors in higher education’ is commendable, experience (and data) indicates that there will be an increase in students opting to study online. To offer students the best opportunity for success, it is important consideration be given, and efforts focused on the implications of the online teaching and engagement strategies we currently employ. The Think Tanks will involve active participation in the form of a virtual World Café.

This event is co-hosted by the HERDSA Online Engagement in HE Special Interest Group and The Australian Centre of Student Equity and Success (ACSES).

Further information: Register here - https://surveys.unisq.edu.au/index.php/948584?lang=en or contact Dr Megan Kimber megan_kimber@hotmail.com

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HERDSA WEBINAR: Curriculum, Assessment & AI: Real World Applications. Join us for this hybrid event!
Thursday 28th November 2024 2.00- 6.00pm

This exciting event will take place at ACAP in Sydney CBD and online, bringing together leading academic educators to explore the transformative role of AI in education and innovation in assessment and curriculum.

The conference features a stellar lineup of presentations, including our keynote address by Prof. Danny Liu from the University of Sydney. He will delve into the crucial topic of ‘Practically Responding to Generative AI and Assessment: What Are the Five Things We Need to Get Right?’, providing invaluable insights for educators navigating this evolving landscape.

With sessions covering groundbreaking research on online assessments, storytelling in higher education, and managing academic integrity in the age of AI, attendees will leave inspired and equipped with practical strategies to enhance their teaching practices. Network with thought leaders and peers fostering connections that will extend beyond the event. For those attending on campus, afternoon tea will be provided.

Further information: gina.saliba@acap.edu.au

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CAULT-HERDSA Joint Awards

Congratulations to this years winners of the CAULT-HERDSA Award for Outstanding Leadership in Research and Development in Higher Education

Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching MOOC and its review
Professor Agnes Bosanquet (Torrens University) and Associate Professor Marina Harvey (Macquarie University)

The Work-Integrated Learning Curriculum Classification Framework (WILCCF)
Associate Professor Bonnie Amelia Dean (University of Wollongong) and Professor Michelle J. Eady (University of Wollongong)

The new call for applications is expected for mid 2025

Further information: https://herdsa.org.au/awards-and-prizes

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CRADLE Seminar Series: A house of cards? Equity-group students’ experiences of navigating university
5th December

Improving access, participation and success of equity-group students in Australian higher education is in the national spotlight, taking a central position in the Australian Universities Accord (O’Kane et al., 2023, 2024). In this context, we conducted a qualitative longitudinal study to investigate undergraduate equity-group students’ day-to-day experiences in negotiating their life, work and learning at Deakin University. Through this investigation, we sought to elicit fine-grained narrative data from students which might inform the design and implementation of supports for equity-group students. Thirty-five students took part in a series of four interviews from June 2023 to July 2024, resulting in a total of 123 in-depth interviews. Despite having some similar characteristics and circumstances, such as juggling their studies with paid work and parenting, and experiencing some similar challenges, the students in this study were a heterogeneous group; there was diversity in terms of study mode and type of attendance; responsibilities such as parenting/caring and work; practical challenges; and positive/negative learning experiences.

In this seminar, we will offer an overview of findings from the project with a focus on moments of precarity, success, and failure, and implications of this work for research, policy and practice in higher education.
Join us for this compelling and this topical presentation online.

Further information: cradle@deakin.edu.au

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Request for Participants: How academics maintain resilience and wellbeing using workplace technology

I would like to invite you to participate in this UNE PhD qualitative study (Ethics approval: HE24-129, valid 10/7/2026) investigating how academics maintain resilience and wellbeing using workplace technology. Your participation will involve completing a short pre-screening online survey, ensuring the target group, academics employed in a higher education institution, who use workplace technology for work completion are selected (public or private university). An invitation to participate in an online video interview and submission of a short reflection will be sent to participants who meet pre-screening criteria.

Further information: To find out more about the study and participate please contact me via email: mfisher@myune.edu.au

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New articles in Higher Education Research and Development // Follow HERD on Bluesky

Supporting the academic success of underrecognised higher education students through an immersive block model, Thomas Roche, Erica Wilson, Elizabeth Goode & John W. McKenzie, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2024.2424157

Integration of growth mindset concepts into academic writing courses for novice researchers’ academic writing skills and competence, Chin-Wen Chien, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2024.2424159

Using historical approaches to understand contemporary student loneliness, Sarah Crook, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2024.2393122

Mobilization and stigmatization: PhD admissions in wartime, Natalia Tsybuliak, Artem Polulyakhov & Yana Suchikova, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2024.2424161

HERD is now on Bluesky!
https://bsky.app/profile/herdjournal.bsky.social

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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.

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