Writers
Information on how University of Edinburgh staff and students can potentially write for the Teaching Matters blog. Includes themes for 2024.
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.
If you would like to submit a blog post, please refer to the theme schedule and guidelines below and email the blog editors with a short summary of your blog post at teachingmatters@ed.ac.uk
Themes
Please find below a list of our upcoming themes as well as all the information required for submitting a blog post to be considered for publication.
If you would like to write about something that does not fit with one of the upcoming themes, send us an email (teachingmatters@ed.ac.uk) with your idea, we leave room to publish extra posts on Mondays.
Note: themes marked ** are being co-curated and we are not looking for contributions at this stage. All other themes are open to contributors.
| Months | Themes | Type of theme: Hot topic/ Enhancement | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar - July 2024 | Assessment & Feedback | Enhancement | Showcasing examples of colleagues' practice that have adopted the Assessment and Feedback principles and priorities. |
| June-July 2024 | **Students as Change Agents | Hot Topic | Contributions from the SACHA programme – including student participants, staff, challenge hosts, and group coaches – on topics such as group work, reflection and mentoring. |
| July 2024 | **Open Education Resources | Enhancement | A short series about creating and publishing open textbooks using an interview format with staff and students, and focusing on content created here at the University. |
| Aug-Sept 2024 | Contemporary issues in HE | Hot Topic | A critically reflexive series on contemporary social issues affecting HE, including modern day structural issues for academic culture, cost of living crisis, student activism, globalization and mobility, wicked problems, burnout, differential attainment and awarding gap, Generative AI, and pressure to publish, plus other issues. We are looking for constructive and critical contributions from staff and students. |
| Aug-Sept 2024 | Perspectives of tutors and demonstrators | Enhancement | A series showcasing the important work of the University’s tutors and demonstrators in learning and teaching. |
| Oct-Dec 2024 | **Student partnership agreement | Hot Topic | This theme highlights the projects that successfully received funding from the Student Partnership Agreement grant, 19 projects were funded in 2024. |
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Oct- Nov 2024 |
Universal Design for Learning | Enhancement | A series showcasing the principles of Universal Design for Learning, and examples of good practice across the University. |
Information required for publication
- 500-900 word blog post in a word document
- Short author(s) bio (4-5 sentences)
- Author(s) headshot
- Any images to feature on the blog (1000x600 pixels and properly credited)
- Any social media handles (X, Instagram, LinkedIn)