Emily Hughes, winner of the Braveheart Award in the Alliance Awards last year, was a driving member of KU Cares – a programme at Kingston University which supports care leavers, students experiencing estrangement, young adult carers and forced migrants into and through higher education. Emily sadly passed away after a long battle with cancer, in […]
Yesterday, we launched our campaign ‘Driving Academic Diversity in our Media Voices’, which aims to take practical action to support greater numbers of diverse academics to engage with the media. To mark the launch, we hosted an online event, where a panel of speakers addressed the importance of media diversity, and how the higher education sector can […]
Written by Ali Bushnell, Student Communications Co-ordinator at Coventry University and 2020 winner of the Star Award Well, what a year that has been! Working in student communications has never been more important as a majority of our students have been working online over the past 12 months. Keeping them informed and up-to-date with the […]
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2021, the DTA brought together four women in leadership roles within the programme, who are at different stages of their career. Following the theme for #IWD this year, Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a Covid-19 world , the ‘in conversation with’ chat was facilitated by Dr Cheryl […]
This blog first appeared on the Higher Education Policy Institute on Wednesday 3 March. With the latest news that every adult in England will be offered a vaccine by the end of July, it is worth reflecting on the immense local and national collective endeavour required to realise this target and, on Budget day, we […]
Written by Vice-Chancellor of UWE Bristol and University Alliance board member Professor Steve West Good mental health enables students to learn, work and strengthen their communities. As universities, it is crucial that we support students who are experiencing mental illness, identifying those at risk and intervening as soon as possible. But we also have a […]
Katheryn Margaret Pascoe DTA3 Social Policy Researcher and DTA Rep Committee Co-Chair Ulster University @PascoeKm Like many of us completing PhDs here in the UK, I have been working from home since March 2020. Initially there was a mad rush to ensure I had the right technology and software, not to mention the essential textbooks, […]
Written by Professor Mark Simpson, Pro-Vice Chancellor at Teesside University and member of the University Alliance Teaching and Learning network Sir Michael Barber’s review of Digital Teaching and Learning provides much food for thought. At the time of the review, I was Chair of University Alliance (UA)’s Teaching and Learning network, so had the pleasure […]
My name is Ben and I identify as a gay man. I have spent much of my academic life studying topics that can be surmised as falling within the discipline of social sciences. I am currently in the process of writing up my PhD, which examines Public Spaces Protection Orders, a measure used to tackle […]
The government will not succeed in its efforts to increase flexible and modular provision until it ends its obsession with narrow student outcomes, argues Susanna Kalitowski. This article first appeared in Wonkhe, on 09 Feb 2021 With the pandemic-induced recession meaning even greater numbers will be needing to upskill and retrain, never has there been […]
