Blog : Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence

Blog: The importance of academic and personal integrity for students

With European Academic Integrity week and the International day of action against contract cheating, Caroline Campbell and Lorna Waddington, Project Leads for Academic Integrity Strategies LITE Fellowship examine the rise in contract cheating and why we need to convince our students of the benefits of integrity, both academic and personal. International Day of Action Against Contract Cheating Day reminds us of the growing problem of contract cheating and our responsibility...

Small changes can make a big difference to inclusion

With National Inclusion Week, Jenny Brady, Project lead for Inclusive Learning and Teaching the University of Leeds, examines what inclusion and accessibility means for online content, what’s on, and how we can all make a difference. National Inclusion Week provides us with an opportunity to reflect on and celebrate everything...

Induction with 2020 Vision – Is this the opportunity to get it right?

The ELIXIR project has attracted an enormous amount of interest, for which the team is exceptionally grateful. They had a record number of attendees participating at their workshops and a hugely successful virtual symposium with 97 attendees – everyone was delighted by this level of support for this important work...

Wrestling with Criticality

Kashmir Kaur is a lecturer in English for Academic Purposes within the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies. Building on a PRiA (Pedagogic Research in the Arts) funded project exploring criticality in academic writing Kashmir used LITE’s Supporting PedR Fund to deliver a Criticality Symposium. Here, she reflects on some...

Focus: Educational Engagement

Louise Banahene, Head of Educational Engagement, provides insights into the current focus of her team’s activities and the value of the student success forums. Louise reflects particularly on initiatives that aim to equalise the degree classifications of BAME and white students. Students from BAME backgrounds are less likely to achieve...

Comment: Tom Ward, DVC

The Deputy Vice Chancellor (Student Education), Tom Ward, reflects on the academic year to date. The academic year 2019-20 has thrown up quite extraordinary challenges for everyone dedicated to Student Education. As ever, I want to start by thanking everyone involved for the effort and thought that goes into enabling our students to learn effectively...

March SpotLITE: Jen Dyer

Jen Dyer is a lecturer in sustainability in the School of Earth and Environment. In this SpotLITE, Jen discusses her role as the School Academic Lead for Inclusive Practice and her interests in Mixed Ability sports. Tell us about your career before you took on your current role? (Or before...

Reverse Mentoring in the School of Law

Racheal O’Connor is a lecturer in the school of law. In this article, Rachael talks about her ongoing project to introduce a reverse mentoring scheme, which is commonly adopted in the legal sector. Here she reflects on the pilot study which focuses on supporting the international student experience. Partly supported...

Comment: Tina Overton, Director LITE

Tina Overton applauds the work of the Digital Education Service in responding to the current pandemic before saying her goodbyes as Director of LITE. The world has changed so rapidly in the past few weeks and is changing so quickly that our situation will be different again by the time...

PedR Focus: Spring 2020

This issue’s article for the PedR Focus has been selected by Katie Livesey, Teaching Excellence Manager in LITE. This article is timely given the huge challenges facing universities, and the wider education sector as a whole, which have had to rapidly adapt in response to the ongoing worldwide crisis. With lecture theatres standing empty and campuses shutting down, lecturers will...