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Welcome to your new blog site! This is your first post. You can edit this or delete it and start blogging. You should read the Terms of Use if you haven’t already. For help and advice on getting started with a WordPress blog, see the Academic Blogging help pages. Your blog is private by default […]
Last month I was honoured to receive a national award for Outstanding Leadership from industry body UCISA, recognising my work driving positive change through UX. This achievement prompted me to reflect on my experiences leading UX in different realms over the past few years, and to think about what UX leadership means to me. Apr […]
As I type this about 80% of the people who applied for the Round 10 Future Leaders Fellows scheme are coming to terms with the rejection of their proposal. Most of these had already navigated incredibly competitive internal selection processes (and indeed you might be reading this as someone who wasn’t successful at this stage) […]
In this extra post, Daisy Bao and Rosemary Banister showcase how essay-based assessments can be effectively approached by a student in a meta-cognitive process. They also discuss why AI tools may be unhelpful and time-consuming for certain aspects of producing high-quality academic writing. This post may be valuable for teaching staff in identifying possible gaps […]
Course Reflections: Through the course of study, my understanding of the concept of curation has undergone a significant transformation. Initially, when I first encountered curation, I merely thought it was about setting a theme, selecting artists and works, and presenting them to the public. However, as I delved into the study of curation in public […]
Jí Jū Collective: ‘Our Shell’ Last week the Collective installed an exhibition entitled ‘Our Shell’, where we exhibited artworks from members of the collective alongside an installation we collectively created including pairings of images from our adopted home (Edinburgh) and our hometowns, exploring how we seek belonging and create a ‘shell’ in unfamiliar environments. This […]