Staff Notices

Are you interested in sharing your expert opinions with higher education colleagues across the globe? Get published in THE CAMPUS brought to you by Times Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed.

The current call for content explores practical advice from and for Higher Education professionals on:

Making good mental health a university priority | Deadline for content: Monday, 24 February 2025

 -       How to identify struggling students and staff

-       What more can institutions do beyond the traditional approaches?

-       How to be empathetic in your teaching style

-       How to protect against empathy fatigue

-       Strategies for clearly signposting available support

-       How to scale up well-being/support services

-       Honing supportive and understanding management

-       What to do when staff reach breaking point

-       Addressing the root causes of worsening student mental health

-       Putting social interaction at the heart of higher education

-       How to promote activities outside the classroom

A connected world: teaching and researching across borders | Deadline for content: Monday, 10 March, 2025 

-          Attracting and welcoming international students

-          Teaching international classrooms

-          Bringing in different cultural dimensions to your course

-          Managing different national perspectives/conflict with respect

-          Helping students understand the “hidden curriculum”

-          Student support for overseas and remote students

-          Ways to overcome language barriers

-          Understanding inclusive language and practices in class

-          Managing international research teams

-          Ensuring equity in international research partnerships

From academia to policy impact | Deadline for content: Monday, 24 March

-       Engage with different layers of government/policymakers 

-       Understanding the policy landscape in which you are working

-       How to get inside ministers’ heads to affect policy

-       Approaches to engage the broader public 

-       Skills you need for working with the media

-       Finding and amplifying the “hook” in your research findings

-       Working with campaigners

-       Attending and speaking at HE, industry or research/field events

-       How to speak in parliamentary/senate/committee hearings and inquiries

-       How to communicate your research/work clearly

-       Advice for effective collaboration to extend your reach/impact

How to build belonging at your institution | Deadline for content: Monday, 7 April

-       Defining belonging within an equity, diversity and inclusion framework

-       Creating belonging in a classroom setting

-       How to build institutional belonging among geographically dispersed students

-       Bringing diverse student cohorts together as one

-       How institutional identity can aid belonging

-       Safe spaces for students and staff to express themselves

-       Welcoming new students/first-gen/international students

-       Ways to support communities of practice

-       Ways to support student and staff networks

-       How to capitalise on extracurricular activities’ power to build belonging

-       Common barriers to belonging and how to overcome them

-       Policies that attract and support a diverse staff team

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