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* HERDSA Blog Post: Programmatic Assessment as a road trip, some advice for the journey!
* HERDSA Executive Nominations 2025
* Call for nominations for HERDSA Life Memberships
* HERDSA GRANTS 2025 now open
* Submit to one of HERD's two proposed 2026 Special Issues – Call for Papers
* Warriorship, concern for the collective and mentoring the next generation: a vision for academic leadership
* Are you an educator who has completed a Graduate Certificate (Grad Cert) in Higher Education or equivalent?
* CRADLE Seminar Series - Programmatic Assessment: Insights from Theory and Practice
* Call for Participant Volunteers in a UNE PhD Study Investigating how academics in Australian universities use workplace technology
* Phenomenography in the 21st Century
* New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development
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HERDSA Blog Post: Programmatic Assessment as a road trip, some advice for the journey!
Daniela Castro de Jong & Priya Khanna, 19 February 2025
Daniela Castro de Jong & Priya Khanna liken the programmatic assessment journey to that of a long road trip, difficult at times, but certainly worthwhile!
Read more: https://herdsa.org.au/herdsa-connect/programmatic-assessment-road-trip-s...
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HERDSA Executive Nominations 2025
Nominations close at 5.00 pm AEDT on 7th March 2025
This is a call for nominations for HERDSA Executive positions for the period July 2025 to July 2027.
The current HERDSA Executive will complete a two-year term at the end of June 2025 and all positions (except the President) are therefore declared vacant. In calling for nominations, the Society is looking to achieve leadership in Higher Education in Australasia and certain balances of representation on the Executive, as well as an enthusiastic preparedness to contribute.
Being on the HERDSA Executive requires a commitment of time. In addition, it requires a basic understanding of organisational governance. The role of the executive is to determine HERDSA’s strategic directions and to administer member funds for member benefit.
The closing date for nominations is 5:00pm AEST Friday 7th March 2025. Nine Executive positions are available and should there be more than 9 nominations received there will be an election conducted online.
Further information including position descriptions are online.
Further information: https://herdsa.org.au/executive-nomination-information
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Call for nominations for HERDSA Life Memberships
10th March 2025
HERDSA life Members are individuals who have made a substantial, prolonged contribution to HERDSA through their service to the Society and/or have made a distinguished contribution to higher education. We are pleased to count many significant contributors in our list of life members (http://herdsa.org.au/content/life-members).
The HERSDA Executive is now calling for nominations for new life members. The Executive will review nominations and elect up to two new life members who will be recognised at the 2025 conference.
To nominate an outstanding individual for HERDSA Life Membership, please forward a short statement detailing the following:
• Name and Email of Nominee
• Name and Email of Proposer
• Statement of outstanding Contribution to HERDSA and/or higher education (approx. 500 words)
Please forward to office@herdsa.org.au by Monday 10th March 2025
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HERDSA GRANTS 2025 now open
Closing 14th March 2025
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 2025 round, up to six grants of AUD$5000 each, plus gst are available. Priority for one grant will be given to applicants identifying as Indigenous/First Nations (e.g., Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, Māori or Pacific Nations).
Applications close on 14th March 2025. Successful applicants will be informed at the end of May 2025. Grant applicants have one year to complete their projects. Grant progress reports are due end of January 2026 and final reports at the end of June 2026.
For detailed information see the guidelines document on the HERDSA website https://herdsa.org.au/herdsa-grants-scheme
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Submit to one of HERD's two proposed 2026 Special Issues – Call for Papers
25th April 2025 – full article deadline
Special Issue: #MeToo and Higher Education with Guest Editors: Professor Denise Cuthbert and Associate Professor Ceridwen Spark, RMIT University
This special issue focuses on sexual harm and sexual misconduct in Higher Education, taking the #Me Too movement as a reflection point. Diverse approaches and voices are encouraged.
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Special Issue: Benefits and challenges of integrating lived experience in higher education with Guest Editors: Dr Snita Ahir-Knight, University of Otago, and Dr Hazel Godfrey, Victoria University of Wellington
Share your analytical, empirical, and theoretical insights examining the benefits and challenges of integrating lived experience in higher education.
Further information: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cher20/about-this-journal#news-and-...
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Warriorship, concern for the collective and mentoring the next generation: a vision for academic leadership
When: Monday 3 March, 12:30pm to 2pm
Join us for the inaugural ‘On Leadership’ seminar, a space for academic leaders to share their leadership journeys and insights. We are thrilled to have Professor Tracey Bunda as our first ever speaker.
Professor Bunda, a Ngugi/Wakka Wakka woman, is Professor of Indigenous Education at UQ and has held senior leadership roles across multiple universities during her boundary spanning career of three decades. Professor Bunda offers her perspectives on leadership, in conversation with Professor Kate O’Brien. Join us online or at UQ.
Where: Andrew N. Liveris Building (46), Room 442/443 or online via zoom
Register: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WE-Leadership_25
Audience: Open to all, share widely
Further information: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WE-Leadership_25
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Are you an educator who has completed a Graduate Certificate (Grad Cert) in Higher Education or equivalent?
Survey closes 17th March
30 years of teaching the teacher: What are the long term-impacts of Graduate Certificates in Higher Education within Australia and New Zealand?
Are you an educator who has completed a Graduate Certificate (Grad Cert) in Higher Education or equivalent in an Australian or New Zealand institute?
A research team from Deakin University and University of Sydney is interested to hear about your experiences.
Principal Researcher: Professor Barbie Panther
Associate Researchers: Dr Shane McIver, Dr Jessica Frawley, Dr Eszter Kalman and Dr Rachel Finneran
You are invited to consider completing a 10-30 minute anonymous online survey. Please click on the link below for further information about this project, and for the lead researcher’s contact details.
Further information: https://researchsurveys.deakin.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_3BLECTTUfpSf8nY
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CRADLE Seminar Series - Programmatic Assessment: Insights from Theory and Practice
Thursday 20 March 2025, 10am
CRADLE is pleased to welcome Dr Liesbeth Baartmnn, Professor at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Netherlands, as a visiting academic with Deakin University. She will discuss the experiences of research in programmatic assessment in the Netherlands, and unpack outcomes in vocational education and practice.
Programmatic Assessment is seen as a promising approach to align assessment with Higher Education goals such as inclusiveness, employability and assessment for learning. Its value has been evidenced in the Netherlands, in practice-based research carried out in a professional learning community consisting of about 25 higher education programmes. In this presentation, Liesbeth shares the theoretical principles of programmatic assessment and how these principles have been worked out in practice in design choices made by programmes in different domains. Also, lessons learned regarding student learning and decision-making will be discussed.
Join us for this compelling and this topical presentation at Downtown or online.
Further information: https://CRADLE_Seminar_Series_20_March_2025.eventbrite.com.au
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Call for Participant Volunteers in a UNE PhD Study Investigating how academics in Australian universities use workplace technology
Call for participant volunteers: You are invited to participate in this UNE PhD qualitative study (Ethics approval: HE24-129, valid 10/7/2026) investigating how academics in Australian higher education institutions 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 in Australia, who use workplace technology for educative work are selected (public or private university). Click on the link to access the short survey. https://unesurveys.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_08ocuZ46BaZ3bHE
An invitation to participate in an online, short video interview will be sent to participants who meet pre-screening criteria and interviewees need to submit a 300-400 word reflection (post interview).
Further information: For more information about the study contact Marie (Bernie) Fisher via email: mfisher@myune.edu.au
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Phenomenography in the 21st Century
Phenomenography is a well-known methodology for higher education research. But over its 50-year history, there have been substantial advancements in the methods and theoretical assumptions underlying phenomenographic research that are not always recognised. This book details how the 21st-century practice of phenomenography differs from its earlier iterations, emphasising that earlier works can be misleading when used to justify current research practices. It is available open access at: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0431.
Further information: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0431
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New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development
Collaborative online international learning as a postdigital connected, embodied, relational & (socio)material Third Space: female voices, Marina Orsini-Jones, Lynette Jacobs, Kyria Finardi & Katherine Wimpenny, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2024.2429438
In the cleft of a rock: Experiences in the in-between space of learning among undergraduate arts and design students, Rebecca Y. P. Kan, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2024.2429436
Spatial-structural inequalities in education: conceptualizations via the international classification of functioning, John C. Hayvon, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2024.2429458
Towards FEAR-less learning: the role of heterotopic affinity spaces, Andrew King, Bogdan Marculescu & Tong He, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2024.2429440
Stereotypes and biases in recruiting PhD holders: a professional profile experiment, Alexandre Bran & Nicolas Lopes, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2462021
Reflecting on reflective practice: issues, possibilities and guidance principles, Marina Harvey, G. Walkerden, A. Semple, K. McLachlan, K. Lloyd & A. Bosanquet, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2463517
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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.