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International academics: Who are they and what are their barriers & opportunities in academia?

Linda Ng & Jasvir Kaur Nachatar Singh reflect on finding their identity as international academics and share their experiences of barriers and opportunities they have encountered along the way.

Talk Nerdy to Me: How Interactive Oral Assessments Can Shake Up Science Labs

Chris Della Vedova and Sarah Davey take us through their journey of introducing interactive oral assessments into a lab based course

Remembering Coralie McCormack: A life of Living Practice

Coralie McCormack, who died at the age of 70, was a HERDSA life member, reflective practitioner, scholar, and mentor. This is an edited collection of reflections she shared about her approach to higher education research & development.

Process over product - What is the utility of process based assessments?

Tim Fawns observes that the advent of gen-AI thrust process based assessments into the limelight but asks, are process based assessments really the answer?
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Leading HERDSA: A lifelong Impact

Shelda Debowski describes her journey to HERDSA presidency and back again - insights from, and rewards of being the HERDSA President
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Embedding English language support before the census date to ensure student success

Caroline Havery & Rosalie Goldsmith reveal what they have learned by leading a whole-of-institution approach to early low stakes assessment of academic language and literacy skills.

COVID-19, ‘Socially just pedagogy’, and the virtual conference

Shannon Johnston asks, are there any indirect positive outcomes of COVID-19 for higher education conferences such as a socially just conferences?

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