HERDSA Notices 9 April 2025

* HERDSA Blog Post: Feel like an imposter at university?
* HERDSA Community: Strengthening SoTL through Theory, Methodology, and Reflexivity
* HERDSA Webinar: The 5C Formula for Impactful SoTL Projects
* DEAR Workshop Series: Being Human in the Age of DeepSeek
* Transforming undergraduate learning: teaching transdisciplinarity on a university-wide scale/ITD Alliance Oceania Region Network
* Job Opportunity: Associate Dean Academic, Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies Auckland University of Technology
* Call for Contributions: JANZSSA Voices from the Field
* Seeking Participant Volunteers for a UNE Resilience in Higher Education and technology Qualitative Study
* Seeking experienced online teachers to support a HERDSA project on engagement strategies valued by students
* New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development

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HERDSA Blog Post: Feel like an imposter at university?
Jen Martin, 9 April 2025

Jen Martin encourages us to ask ourselves, have you ever felt like a fraud? Have you felt that you don’t belong? Have you felt that you aren’t experienced or smart enough to be doing what you’re doing? Join the club!

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HERDSA Community: Strengthening SoTL through Theory, Methodology, and Reflexivity
SoTL SIG, 21 February 2025

Trisha Poole reports on a recent SoTL SIG meeting where Dr Juan Fisher Juan Fisher from the University of Melbourne emphasised the critical role of theory in providing frameworks, lenses, and assumptions to guide our research design to make our studies more robust and interconnected.

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HERDSA Webinar: The 5C Formula for Impactful SoTL Projects
April 30th 12-1pm AEST Time (QLD time)

Join Associate Professor Alice Brown (UniSQ, HERDSA Executive and SoTL Portfolio Lead) and Dr. Olga Kozar (Macquarie University) for a refreshed, popular workshop, where you’ll consider the 5C’s approach for selecting a promising research topic.
1. Concern
2. Common Ground (Context)
3. Crack in Knowledge (Complication)
4. Your Contribution
5. Course of Action

This framework will help you to conceptualise and develop a strong Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project. Whether you’re exploring innovative practices, tackling challenges, refining methods, or engaging with student feedback, this session will empower you to design a high-potential project. Bring your ideas, and let’s brainstorm together how YOU can select the most impactful research topic.

Further information: Register at https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ba01618a-6522-4f10-a3c6-5b85254...@c4d10133-8d1d-45b3-8a8c-dd1a334d7f41

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DEAR Workshop Series: Being Human in the Age of DeepSeek
14 April 2025 (Monday), 10:00 am - 11:30 am

With how advanced AI has become, we may think that human-level intelligence is close. But is this goal possible, or even desirable? Join our HKBU's AI ethicists, Prof. Levi Mahonri Checketts, Prof. Ahti-Veikko Juhani Pietarinen, Prof. Rachel Siow Robertson, and Prof. Pak-hang Wong, to discuss what is uniquely human, what are the prospects of AI, and how to preserve our humanity in this era of advancing AI power.

Facilitators:
Prof Levi Mahonri CHECKETTS
Department of Religion & Philosophy
Hong Kong Baptist University

Prof Ahti-Veikko Juhani PIETARINEN
Department of Religion & Philosophy
Hong Kong Baptist University

Prof Rachel Siow ROBERTSON
Department of Religion & Philosophy
Hong Kong Baptist University

Prof Pak-hang WONG
Department of Religion & Philosophy
Hong Kong Baptist University

Further information: https://chtl.hkbu.edu.hk/workshops/tales-24-25-s2.html#tales8

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Transforming undergraduate learning: teaching transdisciplinarity on a university-wide scale/ITD Alliance Oceania Region Network
Thursday, May 1, 2025

The ITD Alliance Oceania Regional Network invites you to a webinar on 1 May 2025: Transforming undergraduate learning: teaching transdisciplinarity on a university-wide scale, A dialogue between Giedre Kligyte (University of Technology Sydney) and Chris Browne (The Australian National University). While a focus on transdisciplinary approaches for tackling complex social and environmental problems is well established in specialised postgraduate programs, universities are becoming increasingly interested in embedding transdisciplinary capabilities at the undergraduate level. The University of Technology Sydney and The Australian National University are pioneers of such university-wide efforts in Australia. In this session, Giedre Kligyte and Chris Browne will share their experiences of implementing transdisciplinary learning at scale.

Date: Thursday, May 1, 2025
Time: 1:00pm AEST, Sydney
Duration: 90 minutes comprising a 60-minute seminar followed by a 30-minute Talanoa (open discussion)
Register at Humanitix (Zoom link sent to registered participants): https://events.humanitix.com/transforming-undergraduate-learning-teachin...

Further information: https://events.humanitix.com/transforming-undergraduate-learning-teachin...

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Job Opportunity: Associate Dean Academic, Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies Auckland University of Technology
4 May

Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand is currently recruiting for an Associate Dean Academic, within its Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies.

Key focus areas include:

Lead the development of innovative academic practices that advance personalised learning and the overall quality of our educational offer to students.
Lead the implementation of advances in learning technologies and digital and multimode practices in teaching and learning.
Uplift the academic capability and capacity of our academic community. Work closely with our Office of Learning, Teaching and Educational Design and other key stakeholders to develop and implement new programs for staff academic development.
Foster a positive culture of academic excellence by leading academic debate relating to research in teaching and learning.
Work closely with numerous internal and external stakeholders including the Faculty Dean, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic, Pro-Vice Chancellor Learning & Teaching, other FDCT Associate Deans, Heads of School and relevant professional bodies.
Active contribution to faculty, university and academic-related committees.

Further information: https://careers.aut.ac.nz/?job=91953TC

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Call for Contributions: JANZSSA Voices from the Field
Submissions open 14 May 2025

The Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association (JANZSSA) is inviting contributions from the student services community for its new Voices from the Field section.

Whether you’re a first-time author, emerging practitioner, or have lived experience in the field, you’re invited to submit a short written or visual contribution to the question:

In a rapidly evolving tertiary education landscape, how do we ensure our services are adaptable, scalable, and personalised to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse student cohort?

Submissions open 14 May 2025, and are limited to a maximum of 20 on a first-come, first-served basis.

Visit the JANZSSA website for more information.

Further information: https://janzssa.scholasticahq.com/post/3059-call-for-contributions-janzs...

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Seeking Participant Volunteers for a UNE Resilience in Higher Education and technology Qualitative Study

We would like to hear from academics at all levels who are willing to participate in this UNE PhD qualitative study (Ethics approval: HE24-129, valid 10/7/2026) investigating how academics in Australian higher education institutions adapt and manage their practice using workplace technology to complete educative work. 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). If you wish to participate please click on the link to complete the short survey. Please answer all questions in the survey to be considered in this study (including your full name and contact details).
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). We look forward to hearing from you.

Please forward this request to academics, working in Australian Higher education institutions

Further information: contact Marie (Bernie) Fisher: mfisher@myune.edu.au or LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-f-51697368/

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Seeking experienced online teachers to support a HERDSA project on engagement strategies valued by students

To all experienced online teachers and engagement experts in Higher Education, we are currently seeking your assistance in a research project (HERDSA grant 2024) to investigate students' perceptions of their most valued course (subject) specific online engagement strategies. These are strategies that teachers include as part of their online learning environment to support student learning (such as discussion forums; social forums and introductions; Padlets, eBooks, online tutorials, team activities, badges, personal communications, weekly announcements and nudges, collaborative/peer activities and opportunities to learn with others, short recordings and digital media and videos, stop and think activities, online whiteboard, guest speakers, providing explicit expectations about learning and ways of working, …..and many more).

If you are a strong online teacher or know of an uber teacher who strongly engages students online, then please contact us. The research team are eager to hear from your students about their experiences of online engagement in your course. We are interested in learning more about the strategies your students found useful in helping them feel part of the subject.

Further information: Alice.Brown@unisq.edu.au

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New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development

Making sense of academic service in unpredictable times: exploring the risks and benefits of academic activism in higher education, Sally Baker, Melanie Baak, Rachel Burke, Lisa Hartley, Sara Kindon, Loshini Naidoo, Alison Phipps & Anna Ziersch, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2482809

‘Exceptional’ higher education students’ learning trajectories in Spain, José Miguel Correa-Gorospe, Elizabeth Pérez-Izaguirre, Gabriela da Silva Bulla & Juana M. Sancho-Gil, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2482808

The role of extra-/co-curricular activities and work on law graduates’ initial employment outcomes, Denise Jackson & Craig Cameron, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2482807

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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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