TIPS Community: Festival of Learning and Teaching

Session type:  In person | Community Event

Theme: Active and Experiential Learning

Interested in lab-based learning at Leeds? This event brings together academics, technicians, professional services colleagues and students from across disciplines to establish a new ‘community of practice and research for lab-based learning’. The workshop will involve various ice breakers, thought-provoking discussions and collaborative activities, as we work together to shape the future of lab-based learning at Leeds.

Audience: This session will be of particular interest to colleagues involved in lab-based learning in any role and from any discipline.

Facilitators: This session will be facilitated by the LITE Active and Experiential Learning Incubator Leads, Dr Alexandra Holmes (a.holmes@leeds.ac.uk) and Dr Clare Tweedy (c.tweedy@leeds.ac.uk).

How to sign up: Sign up for Lab-based Learning Community: Open Conversation to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type:  In-person | Community Event

Are you a Postgraduate Researcher involved in demonstrating, leading seminars or tutorials, or supporting student education in other ways? Join a group of early career educators in a developmental conversation. Whether you support PGRs who teach or have just started your own journey in teaching, this is a great opportunity to explore expectations of your role as a tutor. We’ll use peer development and support techniques to reflect on, troubleshoot and plan for your professional development.

Audience:  PGRs who have taught or are about to start teaching. This session is also relevant for colleagues who support PGRs.

Facilitators: This session will be facilitated by Helen Morley and Ryan Prescott, members of the TIPS team in OD&PL.

How to sign up: Sign up for PG TIPS: Development Conversations for Teaching PGRs to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type:  In-person | Workshop

Theme: Students as Partners

Join the Student Partnerships team for a fun hands-on set of activities to decompress from a busy year of working with students. Through structured play activities we will reflect on what has gone well in your partnership practices (working with student reps, hearing student voices, and co-creating with students as partners). Bonus: These activities are all great tools for using in student partnerships next year. We will also hold space for you to consider your ambitions for student partnerships next year, to seek support from colleagues and the advisors on how to make this happen. You will leave feeling empowered in your student partnership plans.

Audience:  For anyone working in partnership with students in teaching and learning.

Facilitators: This session will be facilitated by the Student Partnership Advisory Team.

How to sign up: Sign up for Student Partnerships Play Clinic to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Workshop

Theme: Active and Experiential Learning

Explore the University campus and consider how you could incorporate outdoor spaces into your teaching. In this workshop, we will visit several outdoor campus spaces and discuss the opportunities and challenges of teaching and learning in those spaces. Bring your own disciplinary lens to the spaces providing opportunities to learn from others' perspectives.

Please be prepared to be outdoors for the duration of the session and bring appropriate clothing or kit for the weather on the day.

Audience: This session will appeal to colleagues interested in using the outdoors in teaching and exploring learning outside the classroom.

Facilitators:

• Emma Peasland is Head of Research in the Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence and has a background in outdoor teaching in biology and geography.
• Julie Peacock is the Director of Student Education in the School of Geography and Director of EdExE – the Faculty of Environment’s Pedagogic Research Network

How to sign up: Sign up for Outdoor Pedagogies: A Campus Exploration to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Workshop

If you have attended PRiSE support sessions 1–3 and have started your application for Fellowship of Advance HE (D1, D2 or D3), come along to this session to discuss what makes a strong application with experienced reviewers and other applicants.

Through a mixture of discussion and reviewer and peer feedback, colleagues will be encouraged to share their experiences of applying for Fellowship so far, and to ask questions of each other and of PRiSE reviewers about how to develop their applications.

If you have a draft, bring it along – there may be time for reviewers and peers to give you feedback (subject to demand!)

Audience: This session is relevant to colleagues, PGRs and eligible undergraduates who have attended PRiSE support sessions 1–3 and have an application for Associate Fellowship (D1), Fellowship (D2) or Senior Fellowship (D3) in progress.

Facilitators:

The facilitator of this session will be Rebecca O’Loughlin, the PRiSE scheme lead, alongside PRiSE reviewers.

How to sign up: Sign up for All About PRiSE to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Come and Play (Session)

Theme: Experiential Learning

Come and explore the Library Makerspace and how it is uses creativity and hands-on, experiential learning pedagogies to support students and staff skills, enterprise and wellbeing. This come-and-play session offers the opportunity to try some hands-on creative activities using the Makerspace’s equipment and resources. Library Makerspace colleagues will share their experiences, the challenges and opportunities that creative innovation spaces like this can offer to enhance learning for all. We will offer practical insights for those wishing to introduce creative and experiential learning in their own teaching, particularly in subject areas not traditionally associated with making and makerspaces.

Audience: This session is open to all colleagues, particularly those interested in integrating more hands-on, experiential learning into their teaching.

Facilitators: The session will be led by the Library Makerspace Specialist, Dr Andy Holland with support from our Library Makerspace Student Innovation Partners.

How to sign up: Sign up for the Library Makerspace Session to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Open House

Theme: Experiential Learning

Take a glimpse inside the wonderful world of rare and unique objects held in the University of Leeds Special Collections. In this open house session, we will share a selection of fascinating objects are used to inspire meaningful conversations with students in The Sociology of Objects, a third-year module created as a result of a collaboration between the School of Sociology and Social Policy and Skills@Library.

Audience: This session is highly recommended to anyone interested in experiential learning.

Facilitators:

• Tom Campbell is Associate Professor in Social Theory in the School of Sociology and Social Policy.
• Angela Newton is a Learning Advisor in the Library Learning Development Team.

How to sign up: Sign up for Teaching with Rare Objects to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Come and Play (Session)

Theme: Active and Experiential Learning

Come and play at this event, where you will develop an automatic poetry generator. No prior programming knowledge is required, as we will guide you through activities to create a ‘machine’ that generates haiku poetry. Along the way, you’ll also learn about some of the elements of Python as a language.

There will be chance to share your poems, reflect on the task and consider how active learning through coding can offer benefits in teaching and learning across disciplines.

Audience: This session will particularly appeal to beginners to coding, as well as those who want to investigate ways to use coding in their subject area.

Facilitators:

• The facilitators for the session are Haworth Towler and Dr Anja Komatar, who are both based in the Library Learning Development Team and specialise in support for learning and teaching.
• If you have any questions ahead of the session, please contact Haworth at h.e.towler@leeds.ac.uk.

How to sign up: Sign up for Writing Automatic Poetry with Python to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Workshop

Theme: Digitally Enhanced Learning

Arrive at this workshop with your teaching challenge and leave not just with prototype solutions, but also the details of colleagues who can support you to implement them. At this creative and energetic workshop, educators and Learning Technologists will move around the room at timed intervals to rapidly exchange practical ideas about digital enhancement in learning and teaching.

Audience: Teaching staff looking to enhance their digital education practice.

Facilitators:

• Rachel Hartshorne (r.hartshorne@leeds.ac.uk) and Sean Gledhill (s.d.gledhill@leeds.ac.uk), Senior Learning Technologists, Digital Education Enhancement
• Visit the Digital Education Enhancement page on the Staff Intranet: Uoldigital.net/MeetDEE

How to sign up: Sign up for Ask a Learning Technologist to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Come and Play (Session)

Theme: Digitally Enhanced Learning

Curious about how virtual reality (VR) can enhance teaching and learning? Come and explore existing VR experiences, test out headsets and ask questions about using immersive tech in education in our dedicated HELIX spaces. Whether you're interested in creating your own content or just want to see what's possible, we’d love to chat!

Audience: This session is for anyone interested in digitally enhancing their learning and teaching practice.

Facilitators: Josh Gregg – Innovation Technologies Specialist at HELIX

How to sign up: Sign up for Immersive Tech in Action to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Workshop

Theme: Active and Experiential Learning

Learn how to develop a board game in this hands-on session. In this workshop, we’ll cover the basics of game design as you get to create a prototype of your own. There’ll also be a chance to talk about the use of games in education, whether that’s as a teaching tool or to communicate research findings.

Audience: Anyone curious about board games and interested in incorporating them into their practice.

Facilitators: Facilitated by Adam Dixon (a.t.dixon@leeds.ac.uk), Innovation Design Specialist at HELIX. He has seven years’ experience designing and teaching about games.

How to sign up: Sign up for Make a Board Game to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Workshop

Theme: Digitally Enhanced Learning

Accessible and inclusive design should be at the forefront of all academic delivery. This sharing practice workshop will outline the steps we have taken to apply these principles throughout the development of all digital design assets for our award-winning online Master’s programme. Using your own imagination and talents, you will have a chance to develop your own design characters and learn how to incorporate great digital design principles into your own teaching, marketing and communications.

Audience: This session will appeal to anyone interested in inclusive and accessible digital design, as well as those who are interested in design more broadly.

Facilitators:

• Alice Clayton - a.clayton@leeds.ac.uk
• Joanna Law - j.p.p.law@leeds.ac.uk
• Watch an introduction to the work of the design team

How to sign up: Sign up for Accessible and Inclusive Digital Designs to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Come and Play (Session)

Theme: Digital Education Tools

The Learning Technology team in the Digital Education Service have created a wealth of bespoke interactive web-based exercises for online courses.  Come and be inspired, play with our developed outputs and have a chat about how these could be incorporated or commissioned into your own courses. This hands-on demonstration will showcase the types of bespoke interactives built by the team, who will be on hand to answer any questions.

Audience: This hands-on demonstration will showcase the types of bespoke interactive exercises built by the team and will be of interest to any member of staff involved in student education.

Facilitators:

• An introduction to the work of the Learning Technology team: LT Showcase
• Contact: Matthew Jevons - m.t.jevons@leeds.ac.uk

How to sign up: Sign up for Interesting Interactives – Come and Play to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Workshop

Theme: Sustainable Curriculum

Discover how Leeds Living Labs can bring sustainability-focused learning to life in your teaching. In this sharing practice workshop, we will explore how real-world challenges can enhance student engagement, interdisciplinary learning and practical impact. Through case studies and interactive activities, you will gain ideas for embedding Living Labs into your modules, courses or wider practice - whether you’re an educator, researcher or professional staff member. Join us to connect, collaborate and spark new approaches to sustainability in education.

Audience: This session will be of particular interest to educators, but also researchers, professional, operational or technical staff looking to embed sustainability-focused learning into their practice.

Facilitators:

• Dr Tasha Belmo - Living Labs Programme Lead (m.aylett@leeds.ac.uk)
• Dr Vasiliki Kioupi – Lecturer in Sustainable Curriculum
• Dr Jonas Cromwell - Lecturer in Food Security
• Dr Pierre-Philippe Dechant - Lecturer in Applied Mathematics

How to sign up: Sign up for Living Labs in Teaching to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Come and Play (Session)

This Come and Play session invites participants to explore and reflect on their pedagogical thinking and its implications for their teaching practice using the innovative Lego Serious Play methodology. Led by certified Serious Play facilitators, this interactive session will accommodate all levels of experience with Lego Serious Play and Lego building. The session promises to be a joyful, engaging and enlightening experience, encouraging participants to delve deeply into their pedagogical foundations and collaboratively build a shared vision for effective teaching practices.

Audience: This session will appeal to everyone who considers themselves an educator, in the broadest sense of that word.  

Facilitators:

• Sean Gledhill
• Dan Trowsdale (View Dan’s website at dantrowsdale.co.uk)
• Sarah Briggs
• Lead facilitator: Dr Carly O’Neill-Barrett (Contact Carly at c.oneill.barrett@leeds.ac.uk and visit drcarlyinsights.com)

How to sign up: Sign up for Teaching Philosophy through Creative Lego Play to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Come and Play (Session)

Theme: Digitally Enhanced Learning

Ever wondered what it would be like to broadcast live from a studio? The production team at DES are opening the doors of their state-of-the-art studio in HELIX to invite you to participate in a live stream show. Find out what it's like to host a broadcast, get behind or in front the camera and slip into whatever role you fancy. This is an Open House / Come-and-Play Event which will be a fun introduction to broadcast learning

Audience: This session will appeal to anyone wanting to meet the Production and Creative specialist media team and learn how live or pre-recorded high production value content can be incorporated into teaching and marketing.

Facilitators: Watch an introduction to the work of the Production & Creative team. Contact: Rebecca Russell-Cooper (r.russell-cooper@leeds.ac.uk)

How to sign up: Sign up for the HELIX Livestream Workshop to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Come and Play (Session)

Themes: Transformative Learning | Active and Experiential Learning

This come-and-play workshop is an opportunity to learn about educational jams and their potential for transformative learning. After an introduction with the Social Justice Jam as an example, we will play the ‘e(ducation)-pizza game’ developed by educators and students at the University. You will design a transformative learning experience choosing from a range of pedagogical 'toppings’ to add to your ‘pizza’, before sharing a taster with colleagues.

Audience: This session might especially appeal to colleagues who are currently re-designing a module or programme and are looking for alternative ways to engage their students that are highly participatory, authentic and collaborative.

Facilitators:

• Dr Vasiliki Kioupi
• Professor Chrissi Nerantzi

How to sign up: Sign up for Jams for Transformative Learning to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Workshop

Themes: Decolonial and Critical Pedagogies

This sharing practice workshop will be an interactive session exploring theatres for change. We will spend the first hour enacting the methodology and the second reflecting on how it might be used in our practice. The theatre for change methodology has been developed by a decolonial study collective, and draws on work by critical pedagogues Paulo Freire, bell hooks and Augusto Boal, as well as other decolonial and anti-racist activists and scholars.

Audience: This cross-faculty collaborative session will particularly appeal to colleagues concerned with critical and decolonial pedagogies, and those interested in exploring creative methods for developing critical thinking and ‘unlearning’ with their students.

Facilitators:

• Lead facilitator: Dr Charlotte Nussey (Lecturer in Sustainability & Qualitative Methods, School of Earth & Environment) – C.C.Nussey@leeds.ac.uk
• Co-facilitators: Dr Betzabé Torres Olave (Research Fellow in Science Education, School of Education) b.torresolave@leeds.ac.uk

How to sign up: Sign up for Theatres for Change to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Workshop

Theme: Student Experience

This sharing practice workshop explores the barriers and solutions to student integration in HE. Students and colleagues will share experiences of learning and teaching. ‘First generation’ and mature students are at the core of the discussion, as colleagues reflect on their experiences and challenges in facilitating inclusive teaching. Good practice in breaking down barriers will be discussed, offering practical insight that builds on students’ experiences.

Audience: The workshop will appeal to colleagues with an interest in widening participation and inclusive, student-centred teaching and learning.

Facilitators:

• Ato Ampiah-Haagh
• Gemma Carlier
• Mette Wiggen (m.wiggen@leeds.ac.uk)

How to sign up: Sign up for Student Integration: Barriers and Solutions to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Community Event

Theme: Globally Engaged Learning

Discover what collaborative online learning in an international setting can look like and how it can be integrated in your teaching practice in this session.

This is an opportunity to come and discuss any aspect of COIL (collaborative online international learning) in student education at Leeds. You can ask any questions and use this space to receive support and encouragement, as well as gaining inspiration for your own practice. Complementing previous COIL events, this session will be unstructured to stimulate organic conversations and meet the concerns and interests of participants.

Audience: This is an interdisciplinary space open to colleagues at any stage of their COIL journey, whether complete newcomers to COIL or experienced colleagues.

Facilitator:

• Dr Martin Ward (m.s.ward@leeds.ac.uk)
• Visit the COIL Sharepoint to find out more

How to sign up: Sign up for Explore COIL Networking Session to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Workshop

Theme: Open Education

Wikipedia is a living and growing encyclopaedia with over 300 language editions. As such, the content naturally varies from rich and well-developed articles to areas that need input. This provides opportunities for student tasks and projects which have the power to contribute to the public understanding of a topic, the global commons and open education.

Come along to:

• Improve your understanding and navigation of Wikipedia
• Find out more about its articles/pages, e.g. how they are rated A, B, C, etc.
• Explore what goes on just beneath the surface on the history and talk for each article
• Learn how you and your students can start to contribute from finding missing links and sources… to adding articles or even diagrams and illustrations.
• Hear about the Leeds Wikimedia Champions project that brought together nine PGRs from four faculties. They developed a wide range of skills in the process!
• Try it out for yourself…

Audience: All colleagues - there should be something for everyone in this session.

Facilitators: This session will be facilitated by Dr Joanna Brown from the Digital Education Service (DES), and Dr Lucy Hinnie and Nick Sheppard from the Library. Contact: Joanna Brown – j.m.brown@leeds.ac.uk.

How to sign up: Sign up for The Wonders of Wikipedia to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Workshop

Themes: Sustainable Curriculum | Open Education

Do you want to learn from others who have embedded sustainability in their teaching? Do you want to share your own experiences of embedding sustainability in education with a wider audience? Together in this practice-sharing workshop, we will co-create a format for sustainability education insights to be shared more widely in order to amplify our impact. Drawing on both an understanding of need and the skills and experience across Leeds, we will work towards the co-creation of open education resources.

Audience: This is aimed at colleagues who either want to learn about sustainability in teaching or are keen to disseminate and generate impact in the field.

Facilitators:

• Pierre-Philippe Dechant, (p.p.dechant@leeds.ac.uk)
• Jonas Cromwell
• Anne Tallontire

The facilitators are members of the Sustainable Curriculum project team who lead the LUNSHE Community of Practice (Leeds University Network for Sustainability in Higher Education).

How to sign up: Sign up for Sharing Sustainability Practice to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: Online | Come and Play (Session)

Theme: Digitally enhanced learning

Join us for an online “Come and Play” crash course in how to use Artificial Intelligence tools in your role. You will be introduced to Copilot (the University's AI tool), explore use cases shared by colleagues and try exercises to get the best possible results. Experts will be on hand to answer any questions and provide support.

Audience: Colleagues interested in learning more about Artificial Intelligence.

Facilitator: Farzana Latif as Chair – Head of Systems in the Digital Education Service. Support offered by IT colleagues and externals from Microsoft

How to sign up: Sign up for Artificial Intelligence (AI) for All to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and joining links. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Workshop

Theme: Active Learning

... How do you facilitate active learning when all the odds are against you? Join us for an active learning workshop on active learning! Discover effective strategies to adapt your active learning activities for large groups, overcome barriers and enhance inclusivity. In this sharing practice workshop, colleagues will engage in discussion, reflection and design-thinking activities. You’ll gain practical tips and collaborate with colleagues to develop your ideas for active learning activities, ready to implement in your practice.

Audience: This workshop will particularly appeal to those who currently use, or are interested in implementing, active learning in their practice.

Facilitators: This session will be facilitated by the LITE Active and Experiential Learning Incubator Leads Dr Clare Tweedy (c.tweedy@leeds.ac.uk) and Dr Alexandra Holmes (a.holmes@leeds.ac.uk).

How to sign up: Sign up for 300 Students Walk into a Lecture... to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Open House

Theme: Experiential Learning

Take this opportunity to visit the Brotherton Research Centre in this Open House session and see how our collections can put the ‘wow-factor’ into your teaching practice.

Cultural Collections houses a unique collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps, archives, coins, textiles, art works and objects spanning time and the globe. During your guided visit, you will have a chance to meet the team behind the collections and discover examples of how using original material can increase student engagement, enhance critical thinking and produce genuinely innovative research outcomes.

Audience: For all educators seeking to incorporate cultural and archive material, object-based learning or creative outputs into their teaching. We especially invite early-career educators and anyone designing new modules and looking for inspiration.

Facilitators: Meet members of the Visitor Services and Teaching Support Team along with staff from the Academic Support Team from the Cultural Collections Department. Lead Facilitator: Alison Tate, Visitor Services Manager a.tate@leeds.ac.uk

How to sign up: Sign up for Archives to Art (2pm) to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Workshop

Theme: Student Success

Discover how integrating language and discipline (in this case, Mathematics) can transform student success. In this sharing practice workshop, educators will explore strategies to bridge communication and subject expertise, fostering deeper learning and engagement. Join us to exchange ideas, share challenges and gain practical insights to create an inclusive environment that empowers students from diverse linguistic backgrounds to thrive academically.

Audience: This session will especially appeal to colleagues who want to support their students with the language of their discipline.

Facilitators:

• Costas Loizou (c.loizou@leeds.ac.uk)
• Deak Kirkham

How to sign up: Sign up for Empowering Students Through Language to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Workshop

Themes: Student Experience | Pedagogical Research

Learn from mature students, in their own words and pictures, about how they experience academic reading. This is a workshop sharing pedagogical research practice in which student-participants and Catherine Bates will talk about their experience of using the participatory Photovoice research method to gain deep insight into the mature student experience of academic reading, and to co-create a research project together putting student voice at the centre. The workshop is linked to an exhibition that can be visited throughout the month of June.

Audience: This opportunity will appeal to colleagues interested in developing inclusive teaching practice to support students with academic reading, as well as those looking to learn more about creative, participatory pedagogical research methods that enhance student voice.

 Facilitators: Dr Catherine Bates (c.v.bates@leeds.ac.uk) is the lead researcher and key facilitator. She will be joined by student research participants. For more information, visit How Do Mature Students Experience Academic Reading?.

How to sign up: Sign up for Learning Through Photovoice to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Community Event

Theme: Scholarship and Pedagogical Research

Come along and meet with the new LITE Incubator and Strategic Leads to see how you can get involved in pedagogic research as we enter an exciting new phase for LITE. In this networking event, anyone can drop in to chat, share their experiences and ideas and enjoy some fun in our pedagogic playground with some LITE-hearted activities.

Refreshments will be provided.

Audience: This session is relevant to colleagues and PGRs who undertake pedagogic research or are interested in getting started.

Facilitators: Lead Facilitator: Katie Carpenter, k.carpenter@leeds.ac.uk

How to sign up: Sign up for LITE Networking Mixer to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Workshop

Theme: Decolonising the Curriculum

In this session, we will introduce staff to some of the key principles relating to decolonising student education and provide them with concrete tools to help them get started in their own practice. We will introduce the University’s decolonising student education framework, work in groups to apply the principles in the framework to two real-life modules, and share examples of good practice that staff can adopt in their own teaching going forward.

Audience: This session will be of interest to all colleagues interested in decolonising student education and are looking for concrete ways to get started.

Facilitators:

University Decolonising Academic Leads:

• Christina Nick (c.nick@leeds.ac.uk)
• Tehreem Kauser
• Valerie Farnsworth
• Bev Back
• Kendi Guantai
• Nina Wardleworth

How to sign up: Sign up for Decolonisation Demystified to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Workshop

Theme: Academic Skills

In this sharing practice workshop, participants will explore and experience innovative strategies for incorporating elements of debate into academic teaching to foster critical thinking skills among students. By examining scalable approaches, from quick, small-scale activities to comprehensive module reformatting, participants will gain practical insights and examples from across the university and beyond. Participants will leave the session equipped with actionable ideas to embed debate into their teaching practices, thereby enriching the learning experience and promoting critical thinking and communication skills.

Audience: This session will appeal to colleagues looking to embed critical thinking, communication and collaboration into their teaching practice at any level.

Facilitators: This session will be led by Dr Emily Webb (e.webb@leeds.ac.uk) from the Learning Development Team.

How to sign up: Sign up for Developing Criticality Through Debate to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Session type: In-person | Workshop

Theme: Student Engagement and Student Success

Use this time to reflect on and better understand the hidden curriculum in your own context. What does it mean for students and why is it important that we address it? This sharing practice workshop provides a chance to hear about work happening across the institution to create more inclusive student education experiences. It will offer a selection of tools, techniques and considerations to take away and apply to your own work and share with colleagues.

Audience: This session might appeal to educators who want to improve the engagement and outcomes of students, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds.

Facilitators: Steve Gleadall and Adam Brooks work in Educational Engagement, designing and delivering cross-institutional Access and Student Success projects. They lead on bringing coordination to addressing the hidden curriculum at all stages and phases of the student journey.

Lead facilitator: Steve Gleadall – Educational Engagement Manager – S.G.Gleadall@adm.leeds.ac.uk

How to sign up: Sign up for Addressing the Hidden Curriculum to receive your calendar invite, event information, relevant updates and venue directions. Programmed events may be subject to change and changes will be communicated to attendees.

Location: Asynchronous activities on the TIPS MS Team

Dates: 23-26 June

Discover the power of Generative AI with AI Fridays every day of the TIPS Festival! Every morning during the festival, a new blog post will be published on the TIPS Festival Channel to introduce exciting AI tools and techniques. Each post will include a 20-minute activity designed to help you explore AI in an academic context. Ideal for teaching colleagues, students, and professional services staff, these posts allow you to dive in at your own pace and unlock the potential of AI for your research, teaching, or learning journey.

This fringe offer will appeal to colleagues who are interested in expanding their knowledge and experience of Generative AI.

Hosted by the LUBS Digital Education Enhancement team and Freddie Bujko, Learning Technologist and lead facilitator.

Location:Level 9 (ground floor) of the Marjorie and Arnold Ziff Building

Date: From Monday 16 June 2025, 12pm and open for several weeks.

Learn from mature students – in their own words and pictures - about how they experience academic reading. This is an exhibition in which student-participants have curated their own photos with captions, to communicate their experience of academic reading. This is something you can engage with in your own time – there will be an opportunity to share feedback and leave your contact details to get further involved with this change-making pedagogical research project.

This exhibition will appeal to colleagues interested inclusive teaching, academic skills and in mature students’ university experience. It has been co-created and co-curated with mature student research participants.

Lead researcher: Dr Catherine Bates

For more information about this, visit How Do Mature Students Experience Academic Reading?.

Location: Asynchronous activity on the TIPS MS Team

Dates: 23-26 June

Discover some of the exciting research into student education that’s taking place at Leeds! Colleagues on the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice have been conducting practice-based research projects into different aspects of student education across our institution. This online poster exhibition showcases these projects and their findings. Explore the posters and get ideas for your own practice and for possible future pedagogical research collaborations!

Hosted by the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice team in OD&PL.

Location: Online Event

Dates: 25 June - 3.30pm

Please join the AHC Digital Education Enhancement team who are hosting this online event on Weds 25th June, straight after the DEN AI event.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preparing-for-ai-in-the-humanities-tickets-1409268934319?aff=oddtdtcreator

More activities will be added to the Fringe in the lead-up to the festival – updates coming soon!