Reading Club

Thank you to those who joined us for the Reading Club on 9th July 2025. We discussed Rebecca Nash’s ‘It gives you that motivation to keep pushing on’: reflecting on the role of dialogic skills workshops on postgraduate researchers’ academic preparedness and ‘belonging’ from Issue 36. The discussion opened with attendees sharing their experiences of supporting PGRs from within LD teams and how this can sometimes either be encouraged, discouraged or neither from management or senior leaders. We discussed this can often result in PGRs falling through the gaps in terms of academic skills support or else PGRs not feeling […]

A big thank you to everyone who attended the JLDHE Reading Club on Wednesday 14th May. We were a small, but engaged and engaging, group, which allowed for wide-ranging discussions sparked by the chosen reading: The Transformative Potential of Design Thinking in Learning Development.  It was also a pleasure to be joined by Lee Fallin and Catherine Turton, the authors of the opinion piece. Lee and Catherine opened our discussions by explaining how the inspiration and idea for their opinion piece began – with during a meeting at ALDCon, which sparked continued conversations on learning design which eventually led them […]

A massive thank you to everyone who came along to our latest Reading Club on Wednesday 12th March. It was fantastic to spend the evening discussing the important ideas and approaches discussed in the paper, Bridging the gap: a new approach to student academic support at the University of Exeter. It was also great to be joined by Jess Johnson, Hannah Jordan and Hannah Lyons from the author team, who were kind enough to join in our discussions and field our questions! One of our first discussion points was around the challenges of creating a joined-up approach between the new […]

It was great to bring in the New Year with our latest Reading Club on 8th January 2025. A big thank you to everyone who came along to join in discussions and share thoughts and ideas; especially to Xue Zhou and Lilian Schofield, the authors of our chosen paper, Developing a conceptual framework for Artificial Intelligence (AI) literacy in higher education, who were kind enough to join us and field questions from attendees! The popularity, relevancy and importance of the theme of the discussion was evident in the new and familiar faces who came along on the day. Our discussions […]

A big thank you to everyone who came along to our final Reading Club of 2024 on 13th November. It was great to spend the evening together to discuss the paper Critical by design: how learner modes impact the propensity to think critically, alongside James Blackmore-Wright, the author. A massive thank you to James for joining us! The chat started with sharing thoughts and experiences on how the deficit model discourse can creep into discussions and ideas on student development of critical thinking. A thought-provoking question was posed that, if students year on year keep ‘failing’ to ‘be more critical’, […]

A massive thank you to everyone who joined us for our latest Reading Club on 11th September 2024. It was great to be joined by new colleagues to the Reading Club and spend the evening sharing discussions and ideas. In this session, we talked about Tobais Alexander Bang Tretow-Fish, Bjarke Lindsø Andersen, Thilde Emilie Møller, Anne-Mette Nortvig’s What does it mean to prepare for class? A case study on students’ study habits in a nursing educational programme. This article sparked a wide-ranging and really interesting discussion on a number of different topics. We started by sharing thoughts and ideas on […]

A big thank you to everyone who came along to our latest Reading Club on 8th May, it was great to see so many interested colleagues joining in our discussions – and a great and wide-ranging discussion in was! In this session we chatted about Constantine Manolchev, Ryan Nolan and Eleanor Hodgson’s opinion piece, Unlikely allies: ChatGPT and higher education assessment from Issue 30. We are also very happy to be joined by two of the authors, Constantine and Eleanor. We opened proceedings by discussing an argument in the opinion piece that discussed parallels between intertextuality and GenAI, which caught […]

A big thank you to everyone who came to our Reading Club on 10th January – it was great to see new and returning faces alike! In this session we discussed Katie Stripe and Iro Ntonia’s Twenty-two recommendations for inclusive teaching and their implementation challenges from Issue 28. We opened up with a discussion about inclusivity in general. We all took the viewpoint that inclusivity should be driven by a desire to do good / social justice (that it is indeed a core duty or any education provider) – not just because it is stated by law. Taking a more historical viewpoint, it […]

Thank you to those who joined us for the Reading Club on 12th April 2023. We discussed Shannon Martin and Jim Lusted’s Critical Reflections on the Racialised Hierarchies of an Ethnically Diverse Staff-Student Scholarship Project Team from the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Special Edition. We were fortunate to have Jim join us to engage in the conversation and give direct insights into the topic of this paper. The discussion opened with questions on the findings of the study itself and what key learnings Shannon and Jim had taken from their work. Jim highlighted that although it is important to recognise that black student experiences are widely […]

A big thank you to those who came along to our Reading Club on 8th February 2023. In this meeting of the Reading Club we discussed Helen Hargreaves, Sarah Robin and Elizabeth Caldwell’s ‘Student Perceptions of Reading Digital Texts for University Study’ from Issue 24. It was great to have Sarah join us to take part in the discussions and provide further insight into her paper and research. We started with an appropriate discussion of how we all read the paper in preparation for the Reading Club – which resulted in a variety of different answers, from reading the paper digitally on a […]