Alison Bailey is an Associate Professor in Management at the University of Sussex Business School and is the convenor of the Introduction to Business and Management (IBM) a large core module taken by nearly every first-year business student in their…
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Sustainability and simulations: Using simulations to engage first-year Business students
Tagged with: Assessment and Feedback, authentic assessment, Inclusive and student-centred, Teaching and student engagement
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Walk with me: Exploring community, belonging and inclusion through walking interviews
Dr Verona Ni Drisceoil is a Reader in Legal Education and a member of the Education Team, currently leading on Assessment and Gen AI policy, at Sussex Law School. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA),…
Tagged with: belonging, Education and Scholarship, Inclusive and student-centred, student voice
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Building the STEM Ambassador Network for students and staff
Haruko Okamoto is an Education and Scholarship academic in the School of Life Sciences in the Faculty of Science Engineering & Medicine. She has a doctoral degree in Biology (Plant Physiology & Genetics) from Tokyo Metropolitan University and has worked…
Tagged with: belonging, Employability, Inclusive and student-centred, student voice
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Reflections on Curriculum Review in Engineering and Informatics: A Conversation with Dr Luis Ponce Cuspinera
Dr Luis Ponce Cuspinera, Associate Professor in Engineering, offers reflections on his experience of curriculum redesign. What were the motivations behind a curriculum review in Engineering and Informatics? There were several. I’d recently returned to Sussex after three years at…
Tagged with: Cohesive and connected, curriculum design, Education and Scholarship
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Join us on the 26th November to explore the role of oracy in higher education
By turning our attention in a serious way to how we use and think about our voices and ears, we can help students develop their communicative resources as thinkers, listeners, and speaking citizens. (Holmes-Henderson and Wright (2025) Sussex colleagues, join…
Tagged with: Assessment and Feedback, Cohesive and connected, curriculum design, Employability
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Bridging distances: How Buddycheck supports global collaboration
Helen Todd is a Learning Technologist within the Educational Enhancement team and works to develop and support the Online Distance Learning courses at the University of Sussex. What I did I first came across Buddycheck through a colleague, and I…
Tagged with: Assessment and Feedback, Digital and data futures, Inclusive and student-centred
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Designing with purpose: Building a postgraduate course that puts employability first
Dave Smalley is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology with a focus on educational scholarship. His current teaching portfolio includes coordinating and contributing to a new MSc course in Applied Child Psychology, alongside leading a large final-year undergraduate…
Tagged with: Applied and relevant, Cohesive and connected, curriculum design, Employability, human flourishing, Inclusive and student-centred
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Mindful Marketing – Learning Beyond the Classroom
Dr. René Moolenaar is an Associate Professor in the Strategy & Marketing department of the University of Sussex. He is also a Director of a Management Consultancy and Non-Executive Director. Disconnect to Reconnect: Experiential Learning on the Sussex MBA Innovative…
Tagged with: belonging, Inclusive and student-centred, inclusivity, Teaching and student engagement
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Hosting the Heart
Dr. Adhip Rawal, Assistant Professor in Psychology My work as an Assistant Professor in Psychology has focused on relationality and the connection between head and heart. I believe there is consciousness in the heart and this way of embodied knowing…
Developing chemistry student employability through assessment design
Mark Bagley is a Professor of Organic Chemistry in the School of Life Sciences. Mark delivers many of the taught modules in Synthetic Organic Chemistry as part of the Chemistry degree programmes offered by the University and leads a vibrant…
Tagged with: Applied and relevant, Artificial intelligence (AI), Assessment and Feedback
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