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¹û¶³´«Ã½ Leadership Programme webinars
Are you a leader currently facing challenges that have been amplified during our current situation? Discover a range of webinars, including topics such as inclusive leadership in a virtual environment, difficult conversations in difficult times, and leadership resilience: personal and team resilience.
Join the session to hear from a panel of experts on workplace wellbeing, who will share the challenges that their organisations face and how they are responding to them. Register your place.
Making a difference to the student learning experience
Watch some of last year’s winners talking about what teaching excellence awards meant to them, the best part of their job and how they’ve adapted their teaching during Covid-19.
Nominate colleagues now for the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Awards for Teaching Excellence and Personal Tutoring Excellence Awards. Find out what’s different this year and make a nomination.
Personal Tutor Support Sessions
Book your place for sessions about facilitating conversations around wellbeing with a tutee, and supporting international student tutees, to get an overview of some simple ways to check in on a student’s wellbeing and the support available.
WIHEA seminar: 'Miseducation: Decolonising Curricula and Culture in our Universities'
Hear from author Mia Liyanage who will explore the findings of her recently published report ‘Miseducation: decolonising curricula, culture and pedagogy in UK universities’. It aims to ask simple, yet powerful questions about who decolonisation benefits; why we should care about the issue; and, crucially, why this project is a more urgent one than we might think. Book your place for Tuesday 16 March.
Applications now open for EUTOPIA PhD Scholarships
In partnership with Vrije Universiteit Brussel, CY Cergy Paris University and the University of Ljubljana, ten PhD scholarships are available to enable promising researchers to be jointly supervised in order to complete their PhD. Find out more about the programme.
¹û¶³´«Ã½ economist will help map the route to a healthier and fairer food system
Hear from Dr Thijs van Rens on how residents in the West Midlands could enjoy healthier and more affordable food in the future, thanks to a new research project involving ¹û¶³´«Ã½.
Important changes to Open Access funding
Researchers funded by the seven UK Research Councils are advised that the UKRI Open Access block grant is now closed to new applications. Find out more about how the Library will be managing Open Access funding requests until the start of the new grant year on 1 April.