* HERDSA Blog Post: Prompting GenAI as a Cognitive Workout
* HERDSA and AAUT Announce Strategic Collaboration to Advance Teaching Excellence
* HERDSA 2025 Members Survey: We’d Love Your Feedback
* Final Peer Revue show (ever?) featuring Dr Wade Kelly talking research impact
* New articles in Higher Education Research and Development

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A full list of HERDSA Notices is online at http://www.herdsa.org.au/latest-news

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HERDSA Blog Post: Prompting GenAI as a Cognitive Workout  
Cherie Lucas, Mark Ian Jones & Chris Campbell, 26 November 2025

UNSW Nexus Fellows Cherie Lucas, Mark Ian Jones & Chris Campbell posit when genAI prompting is used thoughtfully, it represents a cognitive workout and can actually assist in building critical thinking.

Read more: https://herdsa.org.au/herdsa-connect/prompting-genai-cognitive-workout

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HERDSA and AAUT Announce Strategic Collaboration to Advance Teaching Excellence
26 November 2025

HERDSA is pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT). This important agreement formalises a strategic collaboration dedicated to strengthening recognition of excellence in university teaching and enhancing professional development across the higher education sector.

Through this partnership, HERDSA and AAUT will work together to:

• Showcase excellence in teaching through webinars, conferences, and publications
• Co-create and share resources that highlight innovative practices and achievements
• Support professional development and capacity building for educators and emerging leaders
• Contribute to sector-wide conversations that advance teaching recognition and promote policy alignment

This MoU reflects a shared commitment to supporting scholarly teaching, promoting innovation, and building strong, collaborative academic communities.

Further details — including a joint webinar series and future collaborative activities — will be shared with members soon.

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HERDSA 2025 Members Survey: We’d Love Your Feedback
Wednesday 3rd December 2025 (COB)

HERDSA is committed to supporting its members as well as the broader higher education community. Your insights play an important role in helping us refine and enhance the value we provide across Australasia. Each year, we invite HERDSA members to share their feedback so we can ensure HERDSA’s offerings remain contemporary, relevant and responsive to the evolving needs of our diverse higher education sector.

We would appreciate HERDSA members taking approximately 10 minutes to complete the 2025 HERDSA Member Survey. The survey explores member experiences with HERDSA benefits, including events and conferences, branch activities, networking opportunities, publications such as HERD, ASRHE, the HERDSA Connect Blog and HERDSA Notices, professional learning programs including the HERDSA Fellowship, SoTL Modules and TATAL, Special Interest Groups, awards, grants and prizes, as well as HERDSA’s communication and promotional activities.

Your feedback will help us to:
• strengthen professional learning and development opportunities
• enhance networking and community engagement
• improve publications and communication channels
• shape future HERDSA initiatives that align with member priorities

The survey is anonymous, confidential, and takes about 10 minutes to complete. Data collected will be used to inform improvements to HERDSA’s offerings, and de-identified data may also be used in research, external publications, presentations, or activities promoting HERDSA membership; no individual respondent will ever be identifiable.

Please click here to complete the survey:
https://forms.office.com/r/fjRJ4N4Z08

If you have any questions about the survey, please contact the HERDSA Executive through the HERDSA Office at office@herdsa.org.au.

Please complete the survey by Wednesday 3rd December 2025 (COB).

Thank you in advance for your participation and for contributing to the future direction of HERDSA.

Warm regards,
The HERDSA Executive

Further information: Please click here to complete the survey: https://forms.office.com/r/fjRJ4N4Z08

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Final Peer Revue show (ever?) featuring Dr Wade Kelly talking research impact
Friday 28 November

After four years of laughter, learning, and academic mischief, The Peer Revue is coming to an end. And for our final show, we’re going out with impact (literally) with special guest Dr Wade Kelly.

Wade is Senior Lecturer in Researcher Development, Engagement and Impact at Deakin University, and an expert in helping academics make a difference with their work. He’s also a seasoned science communicator, having programmed Nerd Nite for over a decade across three cities, and performed in live research-themed events like The Sound of Science and Sci Fight: Science Comedy Debate. His book The Impactful Academic explores how researchers can contribute to a better world.

The Peer Revue blends academic insight with unscripted comedy. We interview a researcher, then a cast of comedians brings their ideas to life in improvised scenes. This final show promises to be clever, heartfelt, and very funny. Come help us send it off in style.

Friday 28 November, 7pm
The Motley Bauhaus, Carlton, Melbourne
Tickets: https://www.eventfinda.com.au/2025/the-peer-revue/melbourne/carlton

If you’ve ever been curious about The Peer Revue, this is your last chance to see what the fuss is about.

Further information: https://www.eventfinda.com.au/2025/the-peer-revue/melbourne/carlton

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New articles in Higher Education Research and Development

Examining staff-student sexual relationship policies at Australian Universities: changes since #MeToo and Change the Course (2017), Ceridwen Spark, Denise Cuthbert & Bess Schnioffsky, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2584145

Time, emotions and moral judgements: how university students position GenAI within their study, Margaret Bearman, T. Fawns, T. Corbin, M. Henderson, Y. Liang, G. Oberg, J. Walton & K. E. Matthews, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2580616

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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.