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How to work well with industryÌýPractical advice from and for HE professionals on:

• Effective ways to include business input in course design
• Co-designing courses with employers
• Ways to understand changing skills demands (where to source information)
• Create work experience/practice-based learning opportunities
• Partnering with industry on research projects – IP, commercial agreements, funding, collaborative advice
• Building effective knowledge exchange partnerships and looking to equivalent partnership models in other countries (such as the CSIRO in ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥)
• How to form and maintain ongoing collaborative partnerships with businesses
• How to select the right industry partners
• Understanding different partnership models

Deadline for content: Monday, 5 May

Redefining the university library for 2025 and beyond Practical advice from and for HE professionals on:

• Essential library/research skills for an AI-enabled world
• Understanding primary sources
• How to redesign library spaces
• Refining university libraries as places for gathering and belonging
• Roles in higher education libraries explained
• The library’s role in open access/open research

Deadline for content: Monday, 19 May

What can higher education learn from social media?ÌýPractical advice from and for HE professionals on:

• TikTok generation: how social media affects the way students engage with content
• What lessons can educators take from social media and how they present content?
• Bringing gaming elements into course design
• Engagement tricks from social platforms
• Bite-sized-content dos and don’ts
• Lessons in communicating information/research to wider audiences
• How to use social media for student support
• How to break through students’ digital bubbles/echo chambers
• Lessons in spotting fake news/misinformation online
• How to use social media networks for research
• Building learning/shared interest communities online
• UsingÌýsocial media for career progression/employability
  Deadline for content: Monday, 2 June

DEI strategies for a polarised world Practical advice from and for HE professionals on:

• Too far? Not far enough? Finding the balance for DEI policies
• Protecting students/faculty caught in the DEI crossfire
• Making the case for DEI policies
• Embedding DEI in teaching/research/student support
• Dealing with divisions in the classroom
• Protecting DEI-focused research in a hostile environment
• Fostering allyship to support marginalised groups
• How to adhere to policies while staying true to your values
• What’s next for diversity statements?
• Where diversity, equity and inclusion overlap
• Navigating conflicting DEI needs for the benefit of all
• Diversity, equity, inclusion and free speech
  Deadline for content: Monday, 16 June

Higher education’s bumpy road to net zeroÌýPractical advice from and for HE professionals on:

• Moving from education to action on climate change
• Teaching practical strategies to respond to the climate emergency
• How to encourage behaviour change across the whole campus community
• Holding suppliers to account
• Fostering small changes that could change the world
• Reaching net zero within financial constraints
• Carbon reduction versus carbon capture
• What renewable energy is right for you?
• Collaboration and/or interdisciplinarity to accelerate progress to net zero
• Making net zero everybody’s business
• How realistic is net zero in HE?
• Turning students into climate champions
• Addressing climate scepticism
• Introducing sustainable, energy-efficient AI and IT systems
• Misconceptions about what net zero looks like for HE

Deadline for content: Monday, 21 April

How to build belonging at your institutionÌýPractical advice from and for HE professionals on:

• 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 practiceÌý
• 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

Deadline for content: Monday, 7 April

From academia to policy impactÌýPractical advice from and for HE professionals on:

• Engage with different layers of government/policymakers
• Understanding the policy landscape in which you are working
• How to get inside minister’s 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 relevant events
• How to speak in parliamentary/senate/committee hearings and inquiries etc
• How to communicate your research/work clearly
• Collaborating to extend your reach/impact
  Deadline for content: Monday, 24 March

A connected world: teaching and researching across bordersÌýPractical advice from and for HE professionals on:

• 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 curriculumâ€�
• 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
  Deadline for content: Monday, 10 March