Authors: Dr Jingyi Zhu and Dr Zubeida Lowton from University of Glasgow For all of us working in higher education today, what does it mean to have a voice as a writer? Through the Research Culture and Researcher Development team’s initiative of ‘Write of Spring’, we hosted a half-day session where colleagues attended either a […]
Category: Reflective Practice
Reflections on the UofG’s 18th Annual Learning & Teaching Conference: Special Edition
We are delighted to introduce this special collection of blog posts, all of which are centred around ‘Co-Creation and Collaboration’, the theme of the 2025 University of Glasgow Learning & Teaching Conference. You can click on the individual links on the contents page to read specific blogs, or work your way through the whole edition. Note: We recommend you view the edition in […]
Supervising Dissertations: Reflections on cross-cultural MSc supervision
Authors: Dr. Liyuan Zhuang (Lecturer in Urban Studies & Social Policy) & Dr. Colin Mack (Lecturer in Quantitative Methods) From Dialogue to Reflection Supervising dissertations is a key part of academic teaching, especially for early-career lecturers like us. One of us is British, the other Chinese. We began supervising around the same time in the […]
Decolonising the Law School: A Collaborative Staff-Student Journey
In this blogpost, the authors discuss the journey of setting up a staff-student partnership to decolonise the Law School Forum at the University of Glasgow.
SoTLWriMo Prompts
Adapted from here: https://thedawdlingwriter.com/2023/03/26/30-writing-prompts-for-camp-nanowrimo/
Decolonising learning development through reflective and relational practice
By Julia Bohlmann This opinion piece has been published in the Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education in September: The Decolonising the Curriculum (DtC) movement questions the very values we take for granted as educators. It questions our identity, the knowledge we have internalised and are committed to reproduce, the way we teach our […]
“Are engineers better placed to learn to become physics teachers than physicists?”
Asks our author Nicola Jones in this thoughtful blogpost. So get your cuppa and enjoy the read! Learning to become a teacher is a challenging and daunting task for many but for those with backgrounds in physics and maths, learning to become a physics teacher may be harder than for those from engineering backgrounds. To […]
Can the ‘research onion’ help your thinking around the philosophical and methodological underpinnings of your SoTL project?
Author: Paula Karlsson-Brown @researchingrisk I recently did an assignment for my MEd in Academic Practice studies, which involved me designing a substantial project proposal and pitching it to a fictional funder. I had very limited time and only a few slides at my disposal for the pitch, so I needed to present my study quickly and as clearly as possible. I figured that a visual […]
Internationalisation and Education, is it becoming more of a dream than a reality?
Authors: Mark Breslin @MarkBreslinUoG & Gabriella Rodolico @DrRodolico “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page” – St Augustine This famous phrase is reported in a blog posted by Craig Thompson in 2016 where he mentions John Feltham publication of English Enchiridion in 1700. The quote continues “They that never stir from their […]
Autonomy and self-regulation: co-creation to mitigate the impact of COVID and support Senior Honours students
author: Eneida Garcia Villanueva Eneida is a doctoral student at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. Her interests lie in sociolinguistics, Hispanic studies, and educational research. In her PhD, Eneida investigates Family Language Policy and Child Language Brokering. You can find her on Twitter @EneidaLinguist and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/eneidalinguist/) Background Modern Languages students across the globe have […]
The practicalities of an online pivot: adaptation in real-time
Author: Kirsty McIntyre Introduction to context It was the summer of 2020, and Higher Education in Scotland was facing indefinite suspension of on-campus teaching following a rapid emergency pivot to online teaching in March 2020. In my role as coordinator of the first semester of year 1 of an undergraduate medicine course, I had many […]