The Advance HE Podcast

Supporting Inclusive Boards

Kim Ansell and Tesse Akpeki introduce Advance HE's new Governance Effectiveness Project, Supporting Inclusive Boards.

Internationalisation of HE - episode two

Authors of the Internationalisation of HE literature review, Dr Jenna Mittelmeier and Dr Sylvie Lomer, discuss their findings and what the sector can learn from the report. Part of Advance HE's review of the Student Success Frameworks.

Internationalisation of HE - episode one

Dr Jenna Mittelmeier and Dr Sylvie Lomer from the University of Manchester, introduce their recently published literature review on the internationalisation of higher education and its impact on student outcomes and experiences. Part of the review of Advance HE's Student Success Frameworks.

Beyond Flexible Learning - quality assurance

In this podcast, Dr Kay Hack, Principal Adviser, (Learning and Teaching) with Advance HE is joined in discussion by 2 speakers who have been considering the role of quality assurance in the changing higher education sector, Dr Nick Mount Academic Director of University Of Nottingham online and Professor David Webster Director of SOAS Foundation College.

Wellbeing as a strategic imperative – the management response’

As part of our Connect Benefit Series for 2021-22, the Organisational wellbeing project runs from May to July and will explore the link between healthy and prosperous universities and the wellbeing of staff and students.

As part of this project, Kim Ansell and Barbara Bassa from Advance HE are joined by Vinita Suryanarayanan, COO from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and Paul Britton, Head of EDI and Colleague Wellbeing to explore their reflections on the sandpit event, operational realities, and the benefits and challenges that they might face with implementation of such a strategic approach to wellbeing.

This episode was recorded on 9 June 2022.

Student Success: Feedback

Student Success is a six-month longitudinal project for the Connect Benefit Series 2021-22 focusing on assessment and feedback, as well as flexible learning, employability, and access, retention, attainment and progression.

This is the second podcast previewing the findings of a literature review on assessment and feedback, looking into research articles published between 2016 and 2021. 

In this episode, Kathleen M Quinlan, Professor in Higher Education and Director of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Kent, and Edd Pitt, Senior Lecturer Higher Education and Academic Practice at the University of Kent discuss the feedback side of the literature review. They discuss the suprises they found when reviewing the literature, the range of research from across the globe, the current culture of feedback and what the new culture needs to be, the value of peer feedback, and the importance of student uptake.

This episode was recorded on 14 May 2022.

Student Success: Assessment

Student Success is a six-month longitudinal project for the Connect Benefit Series 2021-22 focusing on assessment and feedback, as well as flexible learning, employability, and access, retention, attainment and progression.

This is the first in a series of two podcasts previewing the findings of a literature review on assessment and feedback, looking into research articles published between 2016 and 2021. 

In the first episode, Edd Pitt, Senior Lecturer Higher Education and Academic Practice at the University of Kent and Kathleen M Quinlan, Professor in Higher Education and Director of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Kent discuss the assessment side of the literature review. They explain their chosen definition of assessment, and discuss assessment for learning, high-impact practices, attainment gaps, and authentic assessment, as well as the synergies with the feedback side of the literature review.

Learning from Students’ Union Governance

This one off podcast looks focuses on what makes students’ union governance unique and how higher education institutions, universities, colleges, and small and specialist institutions can gain from learning from and engaging with students’ unions.

This podcast was recorded on 4 April 2022.

Sustainability for student success

In this podcast Kim Ansell, Senior Advisor at Advance HE is joined by Dr Kay Hack, Senior Advisor, Advance HE and Dr Kate Mori, Quality and Standards Specialist at the Quality Assurance Agency to discuss the links between student success and education for sustainable development and how together they form part of the part of the sustainable development ecosystem.

This podcast was recorded on 11 February 2022.

Flexible by design

Kay Hack, Senior Advisor, Advance HE is joined by Emma Seagreaves, Director of Design and Assessments, University of Law,  Steve Pettifer, Professor of Computer Science, University of Manchester and Sarah Knight, Head of teaching and learning and transformation, JISC to explore how higher education institutions can provide high quality, accessible and engaging learning experiences whilst leveraging the benefits of online learning.

This podcast was recorded on 16 February 2022.