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16 October 2025
3 minutes to readPeer Power in Action: How our PTY Mentoring Scheme is Transforming Placement Support
A student-led mentoring initiative is bridging a crucial gap in placement preparation by pairing students who have successfully completed their placements with those just beginning the process, offering insider insights, guidance, and confidence-building support. Dr Shalinee Dhayal outlines her approach to a implementing this support. Securing a Professional Training Year (PTY) placement…
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25 September 2025
3 minutes to readEmbedding Skills – A Disciplinary Challenge
The Exeter Skills Framework challenges us to surface the skills required to achieve on our programmes, as well as presenting an opportunity to develop a curriculum that marries disciplinary rigour with the development of transferrable skills designed to launch students into wide-ranging futures. In this blog, Associate Professor Annabel Watson reports on…
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11 September 2025
4 minutes to readMoving beyond superficial reflection: A process model for meaningful and inclusive reflective practice
Reflection is an essential skill, yet shallow or uncritical engagement can compromise its purpose and usefulness. This blog explores a clearer, process-focused model of reflective practice to support meaningful and inclusive learning. Reflection can be a challenging skill to master. While the concept may sound straightforward, the ability to take a step…
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4 September 2025
3 minutes to readPronouns, privilege, blind spots, and stickers
Letters from a reflexive lecturer: addressing mistakes and creating inclusion in the classroom Dr Kate Goldie Townsend is a lecturer specialising in applied normative Political Philosophy, particularly concerning the body and children’s rights. With this collection of blog entries, Kate reflects on challenges she’s faced as a lecturer and what she’s learned…
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13 June 2025
4 minutes to readLet’s make some CAOS! The use of drama-based pedagogies in Higher Education.
How can we ensure that different standpoints, particularly those often silenced and neglected, are included and that students play an active role in making their experience of learning truly memorable and transformative? CAOS – CAmpus On Stage builds on these questions and recent calls to develop appropriate pedagogical tools to teach complex…
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6 June 2025
5 minutes to readReconceptualising field courses in higher education
Field courses provide important and potentially transformational learning opportunities across a range of disciplines. Yet, a wealth of literature spanning several decades highlights the significant complexities and barriers of this area of pedagogy in relation to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). Discourses are often wide-ranging and dynamic, relating to (not exclusively) disability,…
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29 May 2025
3 minutes to readExploring training in shared decision-making in the medical school curriculum: Mapping the perspectives and experiences of students and providers
Where is shared decision-making in the medical school curriculum? What was the problem? During a Doctors as Teachers Special Study Unit (SSU) a medical student asked for help preparing for their clinical skills assessment in respect of shared decision-making (SDM). Despite having research expertise on SDM, as an SSU provider I was…
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15 May 2025
3 minutes to readAssessed Workshops : AI Integrated learning
As concerns about student use of AI in assessments grow, a knee-jerk reaction to increase in person exams may lead to unsustainable practices. In addition, we know that exams are not an inclusive or accessible way to assess knowledge in one single assessment. In this blog, we report on an alternative approach…
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23 October 2024
3 minutes to readUniversity of Exeter hosts Universal Design for Learning staff development conference!
Educators and disability practitioners from across the South-West came together at University of Exeter for a GW4 Alliance funded staff development conference focused on how higher education can implement Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles in teaching practice. Shaped around the core UDL principles of Engagement, Representation, and Action & Expression, we…
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25 September 2024
6 minutes to readLearning Experiences and Innovation (LXI) at the Success for All conference!
Success for All is a major strand of our Education Strategy which aims to widen participation, close gaps in student outcomes and build a diverse and inclusive learning environment. The annual Success for All Conference is an opportunity to share good practice, and celebrate the contributions and commitment of the University community….
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18 September 2024
3 minutes to readNew Approach to Module Participation Assessment in English and Creative Writing
In the 2024/25 academic year, English and Creative Writing will be adopting a new approach to assessing module participation with the aim of increasing the inclusivity of our assessment practices. Module participation is currently worth 10% of each first and second-year module taken in the department and is also used as a…
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29 November 2023
3 minutes to readBecoming an expert learner
Professor Caroline Keenan, Director of Education and Student Experience and Associate Professor of Law and Legal Education, led an interesting project on helping students become expert learners. Here’s an overview of the session and project goals. University learning can feel fragmented and overwhelming to students. There are many support services, but students…
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28 September 2023
3 minutes to readWe need to talk about Schrödinger
In light of recent revelations about the personal life of one of the most infamous quantum physicists, it is time we re-measured Schrödinger’s legacy? [Content warning: sexual assault] In an Irish Times article from Dec 11 2021, Joe Humphreys brought the personal life of one of the most famous names in quantum…
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6 September 2023
3 minutes to readCATE award for Grand Challenges team!
The Grand Challenges team was award a Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence by AdvanceHE in 2023. The Grand Challenges (GC) team was formed to facilitate inclusive, supportive and creative environments for students to explore ‘wicked’ problems (Rittel and Webber, 1973) and develop their employability. Hosted by the Career Zone, the team promotes…
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6 September 2022
6 minutes to readTransforming education to transform the world
In its Strategy 2030, the University of Exeter has pledged ‘to use the power of education and research to create a sustainable, healthy, and socially just future’. This goal requires the collective commitment of staff, students, and partners across the breadth of our activities and initiatives.
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16 March 2022
3 minutes to readExploring the benefits of compassion – in education and in life
Over 500 people from around the world attended the University’s first Festival of Compassion in November. Held over 10 days, the festival hosted a wide range of free online and on-campus activities to explore how we can foster compassion to build stronger communities. The diverse events included:
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24 November 2021
3 minutes to readInspiring the next generation of female STEM students
Research shows that females are more likely than males to form negative emotions about their abilities to perform mathematics or sciences, and that these perceptions take root at a young age. These views are often influenced by stereotypes about gender disparities, and false assumptions that mathematics or science subjects are not for…
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14 September 2021
3 minutes to readGood at maths? How innovative projects are aiming to broaden student participation
For many of us, our perceived ability at maths will be influenced by cultural bias – such as the view that maths is predominantly a male field, or an innate talent. These are views that Dr Houry Melkonian, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Exeter, is keen to change.
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18 June 2021
4 minutes to readHow a Colombia field trip became a successful virtual exchange
Field courses are a capstone of many degree programmes, facilitating immersive and experiential learning opportunities. Students can engage with various aspects of their chosen field in situ, in an authentic and often applied way. This might involve touring unique facilities, interacting with external experts,
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9 June 2021
3 minutes to readHow enhancing the AV in teaching spaces can create a more seamless student experience
One of the many challenges faced by educators over the last year is delivering teaching concurrently to both students present in the room and also joining online through Teams or Zoom. Teaching rooms are rarely equipped to enable this concurrent teaching effectively, with limited camera and audio coverage
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