Teaching and Scholarship Culture Cafés
An opportunity for you to share experiences of our current teaching, education and scholarship culture.
OD&PL are hosting a series of café-style conversations as part of our ongoing work to create and promote a more supportive institutional culture that rewards and recognises good practice in education. By getting involved you can contribute to a discussion on the challenges you face, what we are already doing well as an institution and could share more widely, and what a better culture could look like. The Cafés form part of an ongoing project to review career pathways and promote a positive teaching and scholarship culture here at Leeds. The discussions help to propose solutions for how the institution could change: share your voice, have your say and help build a vibrant, healthy working culture for educators.
How the Culture Cafés work
The Cafés are run as small group discussions with a facilitator to help guide the conversation. There may be some questions used to help get the group get started. Groups will contain a mix of up to 10 people. Facilitators take notes, but these will be anonymised. The notes collected will be summarised and shared on this website and in reports and recommendations to inform institutional decision-making and bring about positive change.
Get involved
Café conversations are run online throughout the year. You are welcome to participate in as many as you wish. Sign up by filling in a simple form linked below.
Upcoming Cafés
- Tuesday, 21st January 2025, 2-3pm - sign up here
- Thursday, 13th March 2025, 11-12pm - sign up here
- Wednesday 7th May 2025, 1.30-2.30pm - sign up here
- Tuesday 10th June 2025, 10-11am: in person café and joint event to talk about both education and research cultures - sign up link tba
- September 2025 tbc
- November 2025 tbc
If you would like to know more about our project on reward and recognition and institutional culture, please get in touch with Dr Aline Gaus, a.gaus@leeds.ac.uk.