* HERDSA Blog Post: Coralie McCormack: A life of Living Practice
* Thinking of a SoTL project?? Drop in to a Coffee and chat SoTL Session
* Have a say in the HERDSA 2024 Members Survey
* CRADLE Seminar Series: Nostaligic stories in academic imaginaries of the digital
* TEFA Network Online Event: Shape the Future of Higher Education
* New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development

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HERDSA Blog Post: Coralie McCormack: A life of Living Practice
Coralie McCormack, 23 October 2024

Coralie McCormack, who died at the age of 70, was a HERDSA life member, reflective practitioner, scholar, and mentor. This post is an edited collection of reflections she shared about her approach to higher education research & development.

Read more: https://www.herdsa.org.au/herdsa-connect/coralie-mccormack-life-living-p...

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Thinking of a SoTL project?? Drop in to a Coffee and chat SoTL Session
Every Tuesday fortnight 12:-12:45 pm AEST - Next Drop In’s 29/10/24; 12/11/24

Are you interested in SoTL? Not sure where to start? Have an idea but need guidance on progressing it? Curious about how to translate your research into a publication or paper?
Join us for Coffee and Chat SoTL sessions!

Dr. Alice Brown (HERDSA executive and Lead for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - SoTL modules and New Scholars) is organising these drop-in sessions to help you navigate the world of SoTL.

Whether you're new to SoTL or looking for ways to publish your research, these sessions are for you. Grab your coffee and drop in for some valuable insights and discussions. See you there!

Further information: https://bit.ly/3A0iaw5

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Have a say in the HERDSA 2024 Members Survey
1 November 2024

As a valued member of the HERDSA community, you are invited to participate in our annual HERDSA Membership Survey. Your participation in this short survey is important as it helps us to provide meaningful services and opportunities for you. Each year, we will ask for your feedback on what is working and what could be improved to help structure HERDSA offerings in a way that remains contemporary whilst meeting the needs of Australasia’s higher education sector.

The HERDSA Executive would appreciate you taking the time (~10 minutes) to complete this survey and provide us with constructive feedback. Please direct any questions about this survey to the HERDSA Executive through the Office of HERDSA: office@herdsa.org.au

Data collected through this survey will be used to inform improvements of the HERDSA offerings. Individual responses are anonymous and remain confidential. The data may also be used in research, external publications, and presentations but will remain non-identifiable.

Please complete the survey by Friday 1st November 2024.

Thank you in advance for your participation.
The HERDSA Executive

Further information: This is the survey link: https://forms.office.com/r/Rkun62fExJ

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CRADLE Seminar Series: Nostaligic stories in academic imaginaries of the digital
Wednesday 30 October 2024 2.00pm - 3.30pm (AEDT)

In this presentation we hear from CRADLE Fellowship holder Dr Ros Black. In her Fellowship project Ros investigated how collective imaginaries shape the recent and future development of online teaching and the role of senior academics. We are delighted that Ros will share her research outcomes and insights with us.

While digital tools and technologies have become integral to current teaching practices in higher education, their development and implementation is also imbued with stories of the future. Especially with the advent of artificial intelligence, the digital is either associated with the promise of more creative, responsive and accessible pedagogies and the better development of graduates’ future-oriented skills and employability, or else with concerns about what dystopian outcomes might emerge from a future university dominated by technology. Despite this, when as part of a recent CRADLE Fellowship research project we asked senior academics in Australia and the United Kingdom about how they envisage the future of the digital in higher education, a strong story emerged of nostalgia and of lost real or imagined academic pasts. Drawing on selected data from that project, this presentation reflects on what nostalgic stories of the academy may be shaping our orientation to the digital and what these stories may mean, both for the senior academics who narrate them and for the sector as a whole.

Join us for this compelling and this topical presentation at Downtown or online.

Rosalyn (Ros) Black is Senior Lecturer in Education at Deakin University and a recent CRADLE Fellow. Her research interests meet at the intersection of the sociologies of education, higher education and youth. They include the nature and implications of educational imaginaries within schooling and higher education; the changing nature of academic identity, labour and communities; and imagined youth futures in critical and precarious times and places.

Further information: https://CRADLE_Seminar_Series_30_October_2024.eventbrite.com.au

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TEFA Network Online Event: Shape the Future of Higher Education
Wednesday 13 Nov 2024 10am (AEST) / 11am (AEDT)

Join us for a pivotal conversation on the future of education with leading voices in higher education. Our expert panel - Professor Sally Kift, Professor Kelly Matthews, and Professor Adam Bridgeman will discuss how we can harness the power of Teaching and Education Focused Academics and the TEFA Network to shape teaching and learning practices across Australia, in light of the Australian Universities Accord and ATEC Implementation.

Further information: Register here: https://forms.gle/yyygfaLNEEYTY7wbA Join our free network: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14440884/

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New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development

Working at the level above: university promotion policies as a tool for wage theft and underpayment, Troy Heffernan & Kathleen Smithers, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2024.2412656

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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.