HERDSA Notices 14 January 2026

* HERDSA Blog Post: Towards a relational ecosystem of kindness in Higher Education
* HERDSA Workshop: Finalising Abstract for HERDSA2026 Conference
* Call for Expressions of Interest to join the ASRHE editorial team
* Call for contributions to Voices from the Field section of IJSaP — Frameworks for Partnership
* New articles in Higher Education Research and Development

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HERDSA Blog Post: Towards a relational ecosystem of kindness in Higher Education
Gabi Nudelman, 14 January 2026

Gabi introduces us to the idea of an ecosystem of kindness in higher education, encompassing students, colleagues and ourselves.

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HERDSA Workshop: Finalising Abstract for HERDSA2026 Conference
Friday 16 January 12:30 – 14:30 (GMT+10:30)

The HERDSA Executives and HERDSA2026 Conference Convenors invite you to join an interactive online workshop to support you in finalising and strengthening your abstract before submission.

This workshop will help you to:

Receive feedback through peer review
Refine your abstract with attention to conference themes and presentation formats
Strengthen your submission ahead of the deadline

Participants are encouraged to bring their best current draft for discussion and refinement.

A great opportunity to sharpen your abstract and connect with colleagues before submitting.

Note: HERDSA2026 abstract submissions close on 30 January 2026.

Further information: Register now: https://bit.ly/4sme0p4

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Call for Expressions of Interest to join the ASRHE editorial team
31 January 2026

The journal Advancing Scholarship and Research in Higher Education (ASRHE, https://open-publishing.org/journals/index.php/asrhe/index) is seeking to appoint a new editor to join the existing editorial team. This vacancy has arisen due to the resignation of Dr Geof Hill who has served ASRHE since its beginning and will be sorely missed!

ASRHE is a progressive diamond open-access journal that pushes the boundaries of conventional journal publishing via its group-based review process, article categories, and initiatives into article formats and research methodologies. ASRHE is owned and supported by HERDSA.

The ASRHE editorial team works collegially to address business-as-usual tasks, undertake shared research in journal publishing, discuss higher education contexts and journal publishing, and explore how to best support higher education researchers, established and emerging. Our team meets regularly, typically weekly, for an online conversation.

We are looking for a higher education researcher with journal publishing experience as author and reviewer. In line with the ASRHE ethos of empowering researcher development, prior editorial experience is welcome but not a requirement. We are seeking a reliable team player who takes a scholarly approach and is ready to question and explore.

Please send questions and Expressions of Interest to Eva Heinrich at asrhe@herdsa.org.au. Please provide a brief CV (up to 2 pages) and explain your interest in joining the ASRHE editorial team.

Further information: https://open-publishing.org/journals/index.php/asrhe/index; asrhe@herdsa.org.au

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Call for contributions to Voices from the Field section of IJSaP — Frameworks for Partnership

We invite you to contribute to the upcoming iteration of the International Journal of Student as Partner’s section called “Voices from the Field.” The goal of this section is to create a venue for a wide range of voices to address important questions around students-as-partners work without going through the intensive time commitment required by the submission, review, and revision processes. We want to hear your voices and put them into dialogue with one another!

We are posting this open call for thoughts on the question below, and we will organize excerpts from the responses we receive into what we hope will be a creative, engaging, accessible format to share with readers. Here is the prompt we invite you to address:

What frameworks do you bring to your partnership work and how do they inform your partnership experience? These can be conceptual (as in these two academics’ and two students’ essay on a pedagogy of hope [1] or two academics’ editorial on Jindaola [2]), disciplinary (such this student partner’s discussion of dynamic kinetic stability [3]), or personal (as in this student’s essay of coming from a particular geographical location [4]).
[1] Pedagogy of hope: https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/ijsap/article/view/6022
[2] Jindola: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1360144X.2022.2118476
[3] Dynamics kinematic stability: https://repository.brynmawr.edu/tlthe/vol1/iss47/4/
[4] Geographic location: https://repository.brynmawr.edu/tlthe/vol1/iss47/7/

Submissions should include:
• 75 to 150 words that define the frame in terms non-specialists can understand and explain how your partnership work is informed by or unfolds within that frame. The 75-150 word submissions should:
o be informal but substantive reflections;
o be clearly articulated from your own position and perspective (so very briefly tell readers who you are—context, identities/background, position); and
o have an explicit focus on partnership/students-as-partners

We are looking for up to 30 contributions by 6 February, 2026. Please use this link (https://forms.gle/9mDDTB94mVbxac3y6) to submit your response to the question. If we reach this number before the deadline you will no longer be able to make a submission, so please check the link before you start writing.

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New articles in Higher Education Research and Development

Research experiences in Japanese higher education: a study of Japanese and international students, Yau Yu Chan & Zhengliang Sun, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2607701

Degree apprenticeships: building a future workforce, Giselle Rampersad, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2607692

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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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