Academic development

July 12, 2026

Whether for a promotion application, or a form of recognition such as Senior or Principal Fellowship, being able to tell… Read More

June 19, 2025

This morning I ran an invited workshop, with Dr Iain McDonald of Cumbria University, at the Assessment in Higher Education… Read More

August 8, 2021

This piece summarises some key points from my reflective Keynote at HEFI’s 2021 Annual conference . The last eighteen months… Read More

April 8, 2021

As a way of supporting dialogue around authentic assessment, I am offering ‘Authentic Assessment Top Reflective Trumps’! These are a… Read More

November 29, 2020

Back near the start of lockdown I wrote a summary of what I’d learned about online teaching and learning over… Read More

February 10, 2020

There is a good deal of advice and guidance available for how to design authentic assessment, but how do we… Read More

November 27, 2019

Today I visited Edinburgh, which looked beautifully twinkley and all decked out for Christmas. I came to offer two sessions… Read More

September 19, 2019

Last week was our fifth Learning and Teaching Conference at Harper Adams. It was a really successful day (if I… Read More

January 14, 2019

After working with my current cohort of Postgraduate Teaching and Supporting Learning in Higher Education students, I have pulled together… Read More

June 26, 2018

Here are slides from today’s event at Nottingham Trent University, where I shared work undertaken with two colleagues (Steve Barnett… Read More

March 5, 2018

Sometimes we are so caught up in the demands of practice, and the continual search (and pressure) for enhancement, we… Read More

September 25, 2017

Last week was the third Harper Adams Learning and Teaching Conference. This annual event brings together colleagues from across the… Read More