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* HERDSA Blog Post: From vision to practice: Wrapping up the Australasian Symposium on Programmatic Approaches to Assessment
* HERDSA GRANTS OPEN
* Submitting an EOI for HERD Special Issue: Call now open for 2027
* Call for Papers: Journal of Sociology - Teaching Notes
* IJAD Issue 4: Academic Development Measurement and Scholarship in a Complex World
* The Curious Curriculum Podcast
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HERDSA Blog Post: From vision to practice: Wrapping up the Australasian Symposium on Programmatic Approaches to Assessment
Diana Saragi Turnip, 3 December 2025
Diana shares insights from the inaugural Australasian Symposium on Programmatic Approaches to Assessment, including key threads that tied together the day.
Read more: https://herdsa.org.au/herdsa-connect/vision-practice-wrapping-australasi...
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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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Submitting an EOI for HERD Special Issue: Call now open for 2027
19 December 2025
Higher Education Research & Development is seeking EOIs from Guest Editorial teams for our 2027 Special Issue.
The HERD Editorial Team makes the final selection of a Guest Editorial team based on the following criteria:
- Capable editor(s) able to deliver high quality issue (ideally familiar with the Scholar One system).
- Realistic plan and availability to meet the publication timeline (see website link) along with plan to promote the issue (calls for submission and post-promotion once published).
- A topic that addresses the Topic Guidelines provided below.
Topic Guidelines
The Editors are interested in topic proposals that are:
- Responsive to the research published by HERD in recent years;
- Relevant, thought-provoking topic with international appeal to diverse HERD readership;
- Relevant, thought-provoking topic that opens up new area of inquiry or meaningfully extends an existing topic;
- Relevant, thought-provoking topic that will further collective knowledge of HERD readers.
Potential Guest Editors are invited to discuss ideas with HERD Special Issue Editor Stephen Marshall on stephen.marshall@vuw.ac.nz
Further information: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cher20/about-this-journal#special-i...
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Call for Papers: Journal of Sociology - Teaching Notes
16 February 2026
WHAT IS TEACHING NOTES?
Teaching Notes is a new special section of The Journal of Sociology. In Teaching Notes, we aim to create a dialogue among sociology teachers to share reflections on their practice. We hope that Teaching Notes will be a space for sociology teachers to reflect on what it means to teach sociology, and also what it means to teach sociologically.
For example, what teaching practices and strategies are most effective for teaching the sociological imagination as a way of knowing and a distinctive disciplinary lens? What issues are most pressing in our classrooms now? How do we prepare students for applying their sociological imagination to wider public discourse and civic life? What can sociology contribute to an understanding of teaching pedagogy in higher education more broadly?
Teaching notes have been set up to be more accessible to teaching-focused staff who often have limited time for research. The shorter, 4,000-word length for articles in this section should assist with this. All articles are peer-reviewed, and we welcome empirical research. We also encourage sociologists to share their first-hand teaching insights and reflections, grounded in the relevant literature.
SPECIAL ISSUE: PEDAGOGY OF CARE
We are currently seeking Teaching Notes submissions for the upcoming Special Issue on Pedagogy of Care and the Neoliberal University in India and Beyond.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 16 February 2026
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/jos
CONTACT Teaching Notes editors - Dr Garrity Hill (Garrity.hill@unimelb.edu.au) or Dr Nick Pendergrast (Nicholas.pendergrast@unimelb.edu.au)
Further information: garrity.hill@unimelb.edu.au
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IJAD Issue 4: Academic Development Measurement and Scholarship in a Complex World
The last issue of 2025 for the International Journal for Academic Development is now out: Academic Development Measurement and Scholarship in a Complex World
Featuring an editorial by Gert Young, Henk Huijser, Anne Mette Mørcke & Anna Serbati
Measurement and transformation: what, how, and why we measure in academic development research
Further information: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rija20/30/4?nav=tocList
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The Curious Curriculum Podcast
“Just listened - brilliant first episode with the legend Mick Healey” (Yasmin Kukasi)
Alan Jenkins suggested that I should put out a note on the listservs about this new podcast series on “The Curious Curriculum” from the Centre for Education and Teaching Innovation, University of Westminster, UK.
I hope you will enjoy listening to this first episode, in which I reflect on 25 years of investigating the Research-Education Nexus https://lnkd.in/eXT8teM7.
It marks the official launch of the 70,000 word report (2025) The research-education nexus: Engaging students in research and inquiry (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394463281). It has attracted over 1,500 reads so far.
Many thanks to Andy Pitchford for being such an excellent interviewer, and to Alan Jenkins and Roger Brown for starting me off on this fascinating journey.
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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.