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Applications are open for the LITE fellowships starting in September 2023! ​​​​​​​LITE fellowships provide the opportunity for colleagues across the university to carry out a student education-related project based on innovative teaching, service development, scholarship or pedagogy. We offer three types of fellowships: Professional Services Fellowship An opportunity for colleagues to explore a project over…
Applications are now open for student placements taking place in the summer of 2023. We have two different placement opportunities available. Research Experience Placements Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence (LITE), in collaboration with the Educational Engagement team, is offering 13 students the chance to take part in a supervised research experience placement (REP) throughout the…
Did you miss the Student Education Conference 2023 (SEC2023)? Want to listen again to the inspirational student panel? Couldn’t get to all of the parallel sessions you were interested in? Would you like to hear again Jeff’s round up celebrating what we’ve been achieving together this year through Curriculum Redefined? The recordings of all the sessions are…
Registration is open for #SEC2023 We are delighted to announce that the programme for the Student Education Conference is now available, find out who is presenting and register to attend through our conference programme. The two-day hybrid conference will take place on 5th and 6th January on the topic ‘A Curriculum for the Future –…
We are very pleased to announce that we have 16 new fellowships, and 20 new fellows beginning with us this month! We would like to congratulate all of the successful applicants and say a huge thank you to everyone that applied during this year’s process- the standard of applications was extremely high.  You’ll be hearing…
We are pleased to announce the call for abstracts for the Student Education Conference 2023. #SEC2023 will take place on Thursday 5th and Friday 6th January 2023. The theme for this year’s conference is ‘A Curriculum for the Future – Rising to Grand Challenges’ The conference will be opened by our Vice Chancellor, followed by…
On June 16th and 17th a huge LITE-funded delegation of 23 eager staff members attended and presented at EuroSOTL 2022 at Manchester Metropolitan University. Between them the delegation presented 2 workshops, 12 papers, and a poster. A list of the workshops, posters and papers from Leeds is posted below The LITE Team would like to…
LITE is excited to announce its 2022 call for fellowship applications. Colleagues who have an interest in exploring an area of student education can apply for a part time secondment to provide them with the space in their workload to enhance their practice through exploration and innovation. ‘My LITE fellowship has given me the opportunity…
Our newest intake of LITE fellows was recently announced at the Student Education Conference by our DVC for Student Education Jeff Grabill. As part of our latest round of recruitment we put a specific call out for colleagues in Professional Services to apply for a fellowship offering the opportunity of a supported programme of support…
Getting published: Going public with your SoTL work  There is growing acknowledgement that we ought to learn more about writing if we want to be published in academic journals (Murray, 2009, p. 3). We are delighted that Professor Mick Healey will be returning to the University to deliver our first LITE Masterclass workshop of 2022….