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Special Interests Network
These meetings are intended to provide peer support for those in the course director roles. They take place three to four times a year and offer opportunities to meet with colleagues to discuss and share both challenges and solutions. The network has a core steering group of course directors from across all schools, who feed into the current topics and issues to be discussed. We know that priorities shift, particularly in the current climate, and we hope that creating this community offers a vehicle to work better together and improve the experience for all.
This network runs through Microsoft Teams, and we welcome your thoughts and ideas in the general chat.
The goal of critical pedagogy is to encourage students to think about the way they are being taught and how they, as students, fit into broader social and cultural context.
Do you have an interest in using games, simulations, escape rooms or even Lego in your teaching practice? Join us at the Learning through Games and Play network. Spend time with other like-minded colleagues and experience some short examples of playful practice that is already being undertaken here at Leeds Beckett. Join in the discussion around what practice is happening elsewhere, and how we can tap into the wide body of experience in the HE sector.
Further resources
- Gameful Approaches in HE podcast (CLT podcast episode 3)
- Gameful approaches to teaching (Spring DEAP20 recording)
- LEGO Serious Play. Lucile Allen-Paisant reflects on her experience using LEGO Serious Play with her students in Leeds Business School
The Centre for Research and Scholarship of Teaching in HE (CRSTHE) research network aims to:
- Offer a space for professional service and academic colleagues to seek and share advice and guidance on approaches for their ideas for research projects.
- Offer an opportunity to share current thinking on pedagogic research in the sector, and appropriate internal and external funding opportunities.
- Offer constructive support for colleagues to present their ongoing work, seek collaborators, discuss the findings and challenges in their research and project work and seek opportunities for joint and individual dissemination.
Special interest subgroups
Within the network are two special interest subgroups:
- Digital pedagogies
- Mental Health and Wellbeing
Each of these groups facilitate collaboration, practice sharing and collaborative work on projects.
