@BLASST_

Action Researcher promoting evidenced-based reflective practice for learning in Higher Education

 Sydney
Joined January 2012
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Who is teaching our students? campusmorningmail.com.au/new… @altfellows #BLASST #sessionals
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One week to go... Join our Academic Development SIG for a practical conversation about how we design and run education events with Dr Hasti Abbasi 📅 Monday 29 June | 12:00–1:00 PM AEST 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/4dWdlpk

June 2026 HERDSA Academic Development Community Meetup

Join the HERDSA Academic Development Special Interest Group for a third 2026 networking event

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Join the (Re)Launch of the HERDSA Academic Development SIG! 08 Aug 2025 | 13:00–14:00 AEST via Zoom Connect • Share • Learn • Shape the SIG’s future Register here: events.humanitix.com/academi… @HERDSA #academicdevelopment @KellyShoecraft

Academic Development SIG (re) Launch

Join this open Special Interest Group for Academic Developers. No HERDSA membership required - feel free to come along and share with colleagues.

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The award winning CAUT MOOC saw 700 registrations last semester. If you missed out on this MOOC enrol for Semester 2 2025 at canvas.instructure.com/enrol… #highereducation #universityteaching #freeMOOC @HERDSA @caullt @AdvanceHE
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We don't talk enough about summative peer review of teaching (SPRoT). In our new paper we share 10 indicators of quality SPRoT. Download here tandfonline.com/eprint/FEJNR… @annarowe29

Quality indicators for summative peer review of teaching

Peer Review of Teaching is undertaken across universities as a quality enhancement and assurance mechanism and for professional development. The key contribution of this article is a focus on summa...

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Ice watching and thinking about reflections — in the water, and in Harvey et al. (2025)’s article, @Meermini's blogpost on a recent HERD article mirjamglessmer.com/2025/02/1…

Ice watching and thinking about reflections — in the water, and in Harvey et al. (2025)’s article

Climbing the steps out of the water after an ice dip lets me see the world from a different perspective. Instead of focussing on not slipping and on controlling my breath on the way down…

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Well that was quick! Mirjam Glessmer blogs about reflective practice and the eight new principles. mirjamglessmer.com/2025/02/1… @HERDJournal @AdvanceHE @Seda_UK_

Ice watching and thinking about reflections — in the water, and in Harvey et al. (2025)’s article

Climbing the steps out of the water after an ice dip lets me see the world from a different perspective. Instead of focussing on not slipping and on controlling my breath on the way down…

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We have eight principles for scholarly reflective practice for learning and teaching. What are they? Our open access paper tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… @HERDJournal @AdvanceHE

Reflecting on reflective practice: issues, possibilities and guidance principles

Reflection is a foundational concept and practice across the higher education sector, recognised for its role in supporting student learning and professional development. This comment paper frames ...

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With my co-lead on the Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching MOOC, Agnes Bosanquet, we have written about how we have used distributed leadership and peer review to enhance the MOOC. Free prints here tandfonline.com/eprint/DSEH8… @HERDJournal #IJAD

Distributed leadership and peer review: a MOOC exemplar

This reflection on practice presents an exemplar of an integrated distributed leadership and reciprocal peer review of an academic development initiative. Distributed leadership, characterised by c...

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The CAUT MOOC was awarded the inaugural 2024 CAULLT/HERDSA Award for Outstanding Leadership in Research and Development in Higher Education. Enrol for Semester 1 2025 here canvas.instructure.com/enrol… @CAULLT @HERDSA3 @AdvanceHE @2020Iced @Seda_UK_ #freeMOOC
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ALARA 2024 conference has started. Enjoying ‘Shaping the future of higher education’ hup.fi/site/books/e/10.33134…
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Yes to a focus on the practice of teaching. Where to next for quality teaching in higher education? open.substack.com/pub/needed…
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lol who did this
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"Academic" is just a fancy job title for Elsevier's content creators.
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The Improving University Teaching conference has kicked off! A fabulous opening keynote from Jim Wilkinson. ⁦@AgnesBosanquet⁩
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At Parliament House today launching ⁦@NTEUnion⁩’s third wage theft report which found underpayments are set to explode to $382 million. We need an urgent parliamentary inquiry into university wage theft. ⁦@sallymcmanus⁩ ⁦@LachlanClohesy⁩ ⁦@sarahecroberts⁩
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Semester 1 of the Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching MOOC is about to close. Did you miss out? Enrol here for Semester 2 2024: canvas.instructure.com/enrol… @AgnesBosanquet #highereducation #universityteaching #freeMOOC @caullt
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Hark! Is that the sound of a Senate committee inquiry being readied? The NTEU wants a parly inquiry into unis underpaying staff. Senator Sheldon (Lab-NSW) who chairs upper house educ committees, tweets uni execs "need to be held accountable"
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And it seems to be never ending… BLASST.edu.au #sessionals #casualacademics

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Campus Review@CampusReview6 Jun 2024
Deakin University vice-chancellor Iain Martin has admitted that the university underpaid casual academics in the Arts and Education Faculty and has agreed to expand a review into the issue across the university. campusreview.com.au/2024/06/…

Deakin University next to admit it has underpaid casual academics - Campus Review

Deakin University vice-chancellor Iain Martin has admitted that the university underpaid casual acad

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Did teaching and learning quality end up on the cutting room floor of the University Accord? Did it even make it to the table? open.substack.com/pub/needed…
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Are you ready to lead? @AgnesBosanquet's taster of Leadership for learning and teaching, Module 22 of the @caullt Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching MOOC theslowacademic.com/2024/04/…
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