* HERDSA Blog Post: The University Campus: Essential or Expendable for Student Life?
* Voting is now open for the HERDSA Executive 2025-2027
* Welcome to TATAL Webinar 2025!
* HERDSA GRANTS 2025 now open
* HERDSA SoTL SIG - March 2025 meeting - Next Friday! --- Reflection – it’s a critical practice in SoTL
* JANZSSA Professional Development Session — Unlock the Secrets to Writing for JANZSSA: A Practical Guide for Aspiring Authors
* Comedy show about feedback
* 2025 ATEA Conference - Boorloo/Perth
* Request for Participant Volunteers in a UNE Resilience in Higher Education and Technology Study
* AI in T&L and Assessments at HKBU
* New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development

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HERDSA Blog Post: The University Campus: Essential or Expendable for Student Life?
Claudia Rivera Munoz, 12 March 2025

Claudia Rivera Munoz provides insights about whether students still value attending university in person. Spoiler... they very much do.

Read more: https://herdsa.org.au/herdsa-connect/university-campus-essential-or-expe...

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Voting is now open for the HERDSA Executive 2025-2027
10-23 March 2025

HERDSA members are encouraged to vote for their selection of NINE (9) candidates for the 2025-2027 HERDSA Executive. 

To view and cast your vote go to https://herdsa.org.au/executive-election-2025 

NOTE: You must log into the HERDSA web site to view the ballot form and cast your votes for the candidates you would like to represent you on the HERDSA Executive.

Please login with your email and password.

Voting will be open to HERDSA members for two weeks from 10 March and will close at 5.00pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings time on 23 March 2025.

HERDSA members will be advised of the outcome of the voting as soon as possible after all candidates have been notified of the election results.

Further information: https://herdsa.org.au/news/herdsa-executive-2025-2027-election

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Welcome to TATAL Webinar 2025!
Wednesday 12th March 2025 12-1pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time).

Would you like to learn about what the HERDSA Teaching about Teaching and Learning (TATAL) is about? Are you interested in joining the supportive and nurturing TATAL community? Would you like to see what TATALers are up to?

Join us for an exciting online event where you meet the HERDSA executive and fellow TATALers, and have a taste of TATAL activities.

Date: Wednesday 12th March 2025
Time: 12-1pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time).
Location: Online
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android:https://lnkd.in/edRQVuiM
Password: 639849
Or iPhone one-tap (AU Toll): +61861193900,,83992839577# or +61871501149,,83992839577#
Join the Zoom link above on the day, or register via the link below to save a calendar reminder.
https://lnkd.in/e2zmBm-F

To join, simply jump on Zoom on the day, or register via the link below to receive a calendar reminder.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tatal-webinar-2025-tickets-1117076268189?...

For more info please email Mei via mei.li1@jcu.edu.au

Further information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tatal-webinar-2025-tickets-1117076268189?...

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HERDSA GRANTS 2025 now open
Closing 14th March 2025

HERDSA offers grants to HERDSA members to fund research and/or development projects on teaching and learning in higher education that directly align to the mission of HERDSA. In the 2025 round, up to six grants of AUD$5000 each, plus gst are available. Priority for one grant will be given to applicants identifying as Indigenous/First Nations (e.g., Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, Māori or Pacific Nations).

Applications close on 14th March 2025. Successful applicants will be informed at the end of May 2025. Grant applicants have one year to complete their projects. Grant progress reports are due end of January 2026 and final reports at the end of June 2026.

For detailed information see the guidelines document on the HERDSA website https://herdsa.org.au/herdsa-grants-scheme

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HERDSA SoTL SIG - March 2025 meeting - Next Friday! --- Reflection – it’s a critical practice in SoTL
Friday, 21 March 2025, 12.00–1.00 pm AEDT (NSW/VIC time)/11.00 am–12.00 pm AEST (QLD time)

Topic: Reflecting on reflective practices as SoTL scholars
Presenter: Dr Corinne Green (University of South Australia)

Corinne will share her story of being and becoming a SoTL scholar, highlighting how she uses reflective practice to integrate intentional actions with taking up as-yet-unknown opportunities. Dr Corinne Green will also use her experiences in SoTL and in writing a book chapter about her experiences, to invite you to engage in reflective practices to clarify your intentions and be strategic in your SoTL choices.

Zoom registration link: https://unisq.zoom.us/meeting/register/rT5UexjmRfCDHWnCrZb1zQ

Join our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14343410/

Note: We will not be having a SIG meeting in April due to the public holidays.

Further information: Please feel free to contact the HERDSA SoTL SIG at herdsa.sotl.sig@gmail.com

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JANZSSA Professional Development Session — Unlock the Secrets to Writing for JANZSSA: A Practical Guide for Aspiring Authors
Tuesday 18 March 2025

Join the Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association (JANZSSA) for an interactive workshop on getting started with journal article writing, where you’ll learn the fundamentals of academic publishing.

Editorial Board member, Laura Burge (Swick Learning), will break down the difference between peer-reviewed and professional papers, and cover essential author requirements, ethics, and long-term writing habits. Dr Friederike Gadow (Australian National University) and Dr Joshua Wang (Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital and QUT) will also join the session to provide their key tips and tricks, and answer any burning questions you may have about writing for JANZSSA.

Whether you’re a first-time author or looking to refine your skills, this session will provide valuable insights and confidence to publish with impact.

Further information: https://janzssa.scholasticahq.com/post/2959

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Comedy show about feedback
Thursday 20 March

How to Seek Feedback (and Survive It!)
The Peer Revue featuring Professor Phillip Dawson
Motley Bauhaus, 118 Elgin Street, Carlton
Thursday 20 March, 7pm

Feedback. We all know it’s essential for learning and improvement—but it can be hard to ask for, and even harder to act on.

For the March edition of The Peer Revue, Professor Phillip Dawson (CRADLE, Deakin University) will take the stage to explore how to seek feedback effectively. Phill is a HERDSA member, a past keynote speaker at the HERDSA conference, and leads an ARC Discovery project focused on helping people make the most of feedback.

But this won’t be your usual academic talk. At The Peer Revue, researchers share their work—and then a team of comedians turns it into improv comedy. Expect deep insights, questionable advice, and plenty of laughs about the awkwardness (and importance) of feedback in higher education.

Tickets: https://www.eventfinda.com.au/2025/the-peer-revue/melbourne/carlton
Use code HERDSA for 50% off
PhD students and university casual staff can email p.dawson@deakin.edu.au for free tickets.

Further information: https://www.eventfinda.com.au/2025/the-peer-revue/melbourne/carlton

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2025 ATEA Conference - Boorloo/Perth
02 - 04 July 2025

ATEA’s 2025 Conference will be hosted by Curtin University (Bentley Campus) in Boorloo on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja land (Perth Western Australia)from 2nd to 4th July 2025, and will be held in
partnership with the University of Western Australia with support from all universities in Western Australia.

The conference theme centres on how teacher education and teaching makes a positive difference. As an ATEA community, we aim to promote, share and celebrate the work of teacher educators, educational researchers and teachers across the breadth of education. Key areas of focus are responding to continual reforms in initial teacher education, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education, inclusion, diversity and equity, partnerships, profession of teaching, and creativity and innovation education.

Our conference takes place the week before the HERDSA Conference, offering a great opportunity to make the most of your time by attending both events. In between, you can enjoy a weekend exploring Perth and discovering the many wonderful locations and diverse experiences nearby.

Further information: https://atea.edu.au/conferences/2025-atea-conference/

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Request for Participant Volunteers in a UNE Resilience in Higher Education and Technology Study

We would like to hear from academics at all levels who are willing to participate in this UNE PhD qualitative study (Ethics approval: HE24-129, valid 10/7/2026) investigating how academics in Australian higher education institutions maintain resilience and wellbeing using workplace technology. Your participation will involve completing a short pre-screening online survey, ensuring the target group, academics employed in a higher education institution in Australia, who use workplace technology for educative work are selected (public or private university). Click on the link to complete the short survey.

https://unesurveys.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_08ocuZ46BaZ3bHE

An invitation to participate in an online, short video interview will be sent to participants who meet pre-screening criteria and interviewees need to submit a 300-400 word reflection (post interview). We look forward to hearing from you.

Further information: contact Marie (Bernie) Fisher: mfisher@myune.edu.au or LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-f-51697368/

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AI in T&L and Assessments at HKBU

Please explore our e-flipbook showcasing 21 use cases of AI-assisted assessment at Hong Kong Baptist University:

View: https://chtl-bu.hkbu.edu.hk/documents/ai-tlas/

Download: https://chtl-bu.hkbu.edu.hk/documents/ai-tlas-dl/

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New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development

Uncovering design considerations for embedding transdisciplinarity in higher education – an empirical exploration of a transdisciplinary global health program, Amber D. L. Mers, Sarju Sing Rai & Marjolein B. M. Zweekhorst, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2463515

PhD journey in an academic ‘semi-periphery’: reflexive narrative of a Japanese student’s learning experience in China, Kenichi Doi & Kun Dai, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2462071

Awareness, understandings, and teaching practices surrounding academic oracy in university preparation pathways, Kieran Balloo, Marion Heron & Sally Baker, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2462019

Family, enterprise, academic team? The influence of Shi-men culture on the academic aspirations of postgraduates in Chinese research universities, Lulu Liu & Xilu Dong, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2462027

Students’ experience of comparison-based learning in self-assessment: a phenomenographic study in higher education, Marie Hoffelinck, Pascal Detroz & Dominique Verpoorten, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2463521

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In the spirit of reconciliation HERDSA acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australasia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.