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About Student Education Development
Within OD&PL (Organisational Development and Professional Learning) the Student Education development team are committed to offering support for colleagues in teaching and learning at all career stages. Whether you are just starting your teaching career in higher education, or you are an experienced practitioner wanting to develop or share your expertise in student education practice, our provision has been designed to help you. Explore the links below to find the level of support that best suits you and see our news articles to find out what topics your colleagues are discussing and sharing practice in. Find out more in our short guide about who can support you in your Student Education practice.
Getting started in student education
Developing your student education practice
Connect with the teaching community
Professional recognition and awards
Postgraduate certificate in academic practice (PGCAP)
Leading Student Education
News
Celebrating excellent practice: Applications open for the University of Leeds Teaching Awards 2025
The University of Leeds Teaching Awards celebrate excellent individual and collaborative practice in student education, and recognise the importance of teaching and learning, and giving our students the best possible experience. Professor Jeff Grabill, Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Student Education Outstanding and innovative teaching at Leeds will be recognised in a prestigious awards scheme. Applications are now...
Impact of Industrial Visit Activities in Enhancing Chemical Engineering Student Education
Practical skills are relevant in chemical engineering education to gain employability skills. This is conventionally achieved through on campus laboratory work rather than industrial visit activities. Second year chemical engineering students carried out on-site visit activities at an industrial process plant in the spring of 2023. What did you do? Why did you do it?...
Decolonising the Curriculum via Student Co-Creation
Decolonising the curriculum is an important and increasingly prevalent aspect in our role as educators. It is our duty to ensure we present a diverse and global account of academic content, teaching methods, and assessment. This blog post introduces an approach to how we might authentically and genuinely diversify our teaching delivery and methods of assessments by working alongside students on a project that designed an essay question and accompanying workshop.
Keep in touch
- Follow us on X @UniLeedsODPL to keep up-to-date with the latest news from OD&PL.
- Visit our OD&PL training and events overview page to find all current development opportunities from across all our teams in OD&PL.
- Visit our OD&PL programme and events calendar on the Staff Intranet.
- Read the weekly all staff eNews from Internal Comms where we share our latest development opportunities.
To find out more about the other teams within OD&PL (student education development, researcher development and culture and digital capabilities) visit the main OD&PL website.