LITE Podcasts

Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence

Welcome to LITE's (Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence, University of Leeds) home for all things podcasts. Here, you'll find episodes of LITE Bites, where LITE fellows share experiences, findings, and practical implications from their pedagogic research projects - and related mini-series'. This is also the home for 'En-LITE-ning Dialogues', occasional in-depth discussions at the intersection of cutting-edge educational topics. Our podcasts are recorded at HELIX, the University's learning innovation hub for students, staff, and the local community.

  1. Educational gain and student futures: English for academic purposes

    24 Apr

    Educational gain and student futures: English for academic purposes

    In this first episode of the LITE Bites series on Educational Gain and Student Futures, Bee Bond is joined by colleagues Caroline Campbell and Geoffrey Nsanja to explore how their pedagogical research sheds light on what students value, how they experience learning, and how we might meaningfully understand “educational gain” across different disciplines. Together, they discuss the role of inclusive formative and summative assessment, the hidden and relational dimensions of academic practice, and how these insights are shaping Bee’s work as the LITE Strategic Lead for Student Futures and Educational Gain. Read Bee and Agne’s article “Educational Gain: Why bother?”. You can read about Bee’s LITE Fellowship here. References mentioned: Bakhtin, M. M. (1981). The dialogic imagination: Four essays. University of Texas Press. Bakhtin, M. M. (1986). Speech genres and other late essays. University of Texas Press. Gee, P. (2008). Social linguistics and literacies: Ideology in discourses (3rd ed.). Routledge. Hulme, A., & Evans, M. (2025). Evaluating the impact of embedded academic language and literacies provision in a School of Education and School of Music. ESP Today, 13(2), 419–440. https://doi.fil.bg.ac.rs/pdf/journals/esptoday/2025-2/esptoday-2025-13-2-8.pdf Leki, I. (2017). Undergraduates in a second language: Challenges and complexities of academic literacy development. Routledge. (Original work published 2007) Maton, K., & Moore, R. (Eds.). (2010). Social realism, knowledge and the sociology of education: Coalitions of the mind. Continuum/Bloomsbury. Tibbetts, N. A., & Chapman, T. (2023). A guide to in‑sessional English for academic purposes: Paradigms and practices. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003193715 Turner, J. (2011). Language in the Academy: Cultural Reflexivity and Intercultural Dynamics. Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.29308504 Wingate, U. (2015). Academic Literacy and Student Diversity: The Case for Inclusive Practice. Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.26931983

    34 min

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Welcome to LITE's (Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence, University of Leeds) home for all things podcasts. Here, you'll find episodes of LITE Bites, where LITE fellows share experiences, findings, and practical implications from their pedagogic research projects - and related mini-series'. This is also the home for 'En-LITE-ning Dialogues', occasional in-depth discussions at the intersection of cutting-edge educational topics. Our podcasts are recorded at HELIX, the University's learning innovation hub for students, staff, and the local community.