Resilient Learning Communities
Information on the University’s work on the current Enhancement Theme.
The Enhancement Themes are selected by the Scottish higher education sector and provide a means for institutions, academic staff, support staff and students to work together in enhancing the student learning experience.
The current Theme will focus on meeting the changing needs and values of an increasingly diverse student community and a rapidly changing external environment.
The Theme runs for three years from August 2020 to July 2023. It looks to answer these key questions:
- What will our learning communities look like in 2023? And what can we do now to prepare for them?
- Who are our current and future students and how will they want to learn? How can we gain a clear understanding of their needs? What information do we need to enable us to best support their learning?
- How can we capitalise as a sector on the attributes students bring?
- How do we ensure we are able to support our diverse learning communities? What might this mean for our staff and our infrastructure?
- How should we anticipate, influence and respond to the changing external environment? How can we engage with our stakeholders and ensure we are influencing strategy and policy both in Scotland and beyond?
Across these questions there are four priority areas: equality and diversity; community and belonging; supporting staff and student success; and flexible, accessible learning.
Enhancement Themes information
More information on the current Theme is available on the Enhancement Themes website.
Resilient Learning Communities
Institutional Work
Information on the University’s Theme activity.
Enhancement Themes: institutional work
Institutional Lead
Professor Tina Harrison
Assistant Principal Academic Standards & Quality Assurance
- Business School
- University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Work: +44(0)131 650 3820
- Email: Tina.Harrison@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
29 Buccleuch Place
- City
- Edinburgh
- Post Code
- EH8 9JS
Institutional Coordinator
Nichola Kett
Academic Services
Contact details
- Email: Nichola.Kett@ed.ac.uk
Institutional Team
| Professor Tina Harrison | Assistant Principal Academic Standards and Quality Assurance | Institutional Lead |
| Nichola Kett | Head of Quality Assurance and Enhancement | Theme Leaders’ Group |
| Tara Gold | Vice President Education, Edinburgh University Students’ Association | Theme Leaders’ Group student representative |
| Stuart Lamont | Academic Policy Coordinator | Edinburgh University Students’ Association staff member |
| Dr Jon Turner | Director | Institute for Academic Development |
| Dr Fiona Philippi | Head of Doctoral Education/Deputy Head of Researcher Development, Institute for Academic Development | Doctoral education Researcher/researcher development representative |
| PhD Interns |
Yuemiao Ma Bradley Sharples |
Building Communities PhD Intern Building Communities PhD Intern |