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  • New paper on designing inclusive digital learning: from practice to recognition

     Piyali Bhattacharya is a Teaching and Research Fellow at the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, and has recently completed her PhD. Her research focuses on clinical and developmental psychology with special interest to mental health and neurodiversity. Alongside her research, Piyali has been involved in designing and leading a postgraduate Digital Mental Health module…

  • Student confidence through complexity: new research showcases impact of interdisciplinary learning

    We speak to Dr Evelyn Svingen, Assistant Professor in Criminology at the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology at the University of Birmingham. Evelyn recently publsihed the findings of an education enhancement project in the journal Nature: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, which represents global recogntion for her scholarship and education research work. Evelyn,…

  • Celebrating Beacon champions: Dr Mehran Eskandari Torbaghan SFHEA

    This is part of a series of posts celebrating the champions of our institutional Advance HE fellowship recognition scheme, Beacon. Beacon has awarded more than 1000 fellowships since its launch in 2015. Beacon is led by Marios Hadjianastasis and Jamie Morris. Advance HE have recently helped us celebrated these milestones on their blog (link). We…

  • Celebrating our SRHE Fellow Prof. Sarah Montano

    At the last international conference of the Society for Research Into Higher Education in December, our colleague Prof. Sarah Montano of the University of Birmingham Business School was awarded the prestigious Fellowship of the Society, alongside other important contributors to research in HE over the decades, such as Gerlese Akerlind, Paul Ashwin, Sue Clegg, Heidi…