Writers

Information on how University of Edinburgh staff and students can potentially write for the Teaching Matters blog. Includes themes for 2025.

Teaching Matters is continuously looking for members of the University of Edinburgh community to reflect on our teaching and learning by contributing to the blog. Please refer to the publishing schedule and upcoming themes below.

Please submit your blog post via the submission form: Submit a post – Teaching Matters. 

Publishing schedule and upcoming themes

Please find below our upcoming publishing schedule, which is guest edited by Dr Kirsten Cowan. The submission request for these series has now closed so we are not looking for contributions at this stage. 

Teaching Matters blog - themes for 2025
MonthsThemesType of theme: Hot topic/ Enhancement
Nov - Dec 2025Student Partnership Agreement projects 2025Hot Topic (Tuesdays)
Jan - Feb 2026Creating a challenge course (co-edited by Omolabake Fakunle) Learning & Teaching Enhancement (Thursdays)
March - April 2026Data skills in the curriculum (co-edited by Brittany Blankinship)Hot Topic (Tuesdays)
March - April 2026Challenge-based and experiential learning (co-edited by Andrea English)Learning & Teaching Enhancement (Thursdays)
May - June 2026Podcasting in learning and teaching (co-edited by Emily O’Reilly and Andre Phillips)Hot Topic (Tuesdays)
May - June 2026Skills for Success Framework in practice (co-edited by Lorna Devlin)Learning & Teaching Enhancement (Thursdays)

Please do get in touch with us if you would like to contribute a post or be a guest editor for one of these themes: teachingmatters@ed.ac.uk

If you would like to write about something related to learning and teaching that does not fit with one of the upcoming themes, please send us an email (teachingmatters@ed.ac.uk) with your idea, as we leave room to publish extra posts on Mondays.

Information required for publication

Please read our writing and style guidelines for all the information required to a write and submit a blog post to Teaching Matters: Writing style guide – Teaching Matters

In brief, submissions require:

  • 500-900 word blog post
  • Short author(s) bio (4-5 sentences)
  • Author(s) headshot
  • Images or videos to feature on the blog
  • Social media handles (X, Instagram, LinkedIn)

Please submit your blog post via the online form on Teaching Matters: Submit a post – Teaching Matters

Any questions, please contact the editors at: teachingmatters@ed.ac.uk

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