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HEDx is focussed on the changing landscape of higher education. The podcast investigates global innovations, opinions, strategies and experiences across the sector. Episodes have a range of guests in academic and other leaders as the sector moves through unprecedented times. A regular series within HEDx is about the student experience.

  1. 5d ago

    HEDx Student Experience - EP10

    Recorded live at the 2026 Student Voice Symposium & Student Summit, this episode explores one of the central themes emerging from the event: how trust, safety and meaningful participation shape student voice. Across two days of conversations, students, staff, sector leaders and policy-makers came together to examine what it takes to create environments where students feel safe to speak up, confident they will be heard, and empowered to contribute to decisions that affect their education. In this episode, Student Voice Australasia speaks with event contributors and delegates, capturing diverse perspectives on student partnership, representation, governance and institutional culture. Together, they reflect on the importance of moving beyond consultation towards genuine collaboration, and what it means to create tertiary education environments where student voice is not only heard, but trusted, valued and acted upon. Hosted by:  Belinda Brear (SVA National Coordinator) Francesca Harrison (SVA Student Partner) Megan Pozzi (Director Student Life, University of Southern Queensland) Featuring: The Hon Prof Bill Shorten, Vice Chancellor, University of Canberra (UC) Aaron Saint-James, Student, University of New South Whales (UNSW) Sam Jacob, CEO of Australian College of the Arts (Collarts) Simone Chitsinde, Student, University of Canberra and President of the UC Student Representative Council (UCSRC) Sarah Bendall, First Assistant Ombudsman, National Student Ombudsman (NSO)

    HEDx Student Experience - EP10

  2. Oct 29

    EP229. From Campus to Community: how La Trobe’s AI Business Studio is helping organisations adopt AI

    Universities are branching out. La Trobe’s AI Business Studio connects students with small and medium businesses to tackle real AI challenges — and the results are already being felt in the community. Patricia Haueiss, Managing Director of the La Trobe AI Institute, and Nyo Manwijesinghe, Senior Leader of Information Management and Technology at Bendigo Community Health Services, join Annabel to talk about what work-integrated learning really looks like in an AI-first world.

  3. Oct 23

    EP228. Built on strengths: why doing what you do best is your greatest advantage

    As AI reshapes how students learn, get assessed, and enter the workforce, one question is becoming more urgent: do students actually know what makes them uniquely human? In this episode, Annabel is joined by Timothy Hodges, Executive Director of the Clifton Strengths Institute at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, and Anne Lingafelter, Principal at Gallup, to explore how strengths-based education builds the self-awareness, confidence, and human capability that no AI can replicate. Because in a world where everything can be generated, knowing what you do best — and leaning into it — might be your greatest advantage

  4. Oct 15

    EP227. How universities are actually implementing AI

    Most universities have AI ambition. Far fewer have figured out how to turn that into something students actually feel. In this episode, Annabel is joined by Kate Shum, Product General Manager at Technology One, and Gail Bray, Chief Transformation Officer at Victoria University, to talk about what it actually takes to move from experimentation to real impact. They cover where to start, how to build a framework without stifling innovation, what happens when an idea is ready to move into the tech stack, and why legacy systems are still the biggest blocker nobody wants to talk about.

  5. Oct 8

    EP226. From Curriculum to Career: Are Students Ready for AI?

    Valerie Singer leads the Global Education Team at Amazon Web Services, working with universities across more than 200 countries. In this episode, she and Martin talk about the gap between what employers need and what graduates actually bring, why 53% of employers say AI skills are their biggest hiring challenge, and what universities can do right now, this semester, to start closing it. A conversation about applied learning, institutional courage, and what higher education needs to look like in 2030.

  6. Oct 1

    EP225. From disruption to construction: what comes next

    Two days of conversations about AI, disruption, and the future of higher education. This is where it ends — and where the real question begins. Did we just talk, or did something actually change? Martin gets put on the spot, Sam says what most people won't about public universities, Sean proposes replacing disruption with construction, and two students close the whole series with something simple: change shouldn't wait until graduation.

    EP225. From disruption to construction: what comes next

  7. Sep 24

    EP224. The student perspective: heard but not always listened to

    Episode 9 of The AI Inflection Point — the last conversation on the student experience. Most universities will tell you they listen to their students. But listening and actually responding are two very different things. Jasmine Johnston moderates a panel that gets honest about that gap. Ghazal Duggal, nursing student at USQ and student representative, on what it feels like to carry the concerns of a whole cohort. Neave Nagel, President of NUS 2026 and UTS Students Association, on why two students on a university council isn't enough to represent 20,000 people. Taryn Jones, Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Macquarie, on what 8,800 students said when asked not about their classes — but about their lives. Loneliness came up more than anyone expected. And Michael Henderson from Monash on why student voice only means something if it actually changes decisions. What is a university without its students? That question sits underneath everything in this episode.

    EP224. The student perspective: heard but not always listened to

  8. Sep 17

    HEDx Student Experience - EP9

    Could undergraduate research help strengthen Australia’s innovation pipeline? In this Student Experience episode, Dr Sharon Saunders and Ben Roden-Cohen are joined by ACUR leaders Dr Lilia Mantai and Claudia Ghosn to explore how early research experiences build student confidence, capability and career pathways. They discuss the value of undergraduate research, the barriers limiting participation, and why creating more opportunities for students to engage in authentic research matters for Australia’s future workforce.

    HEDx Student Experience - EP9
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HEDx is focussed on the changing landscape of higher education. The podcast investigates global innovations, opinions, strategies and experiences across the sector. Episodes have a range of guests in academic and other leaders as the sector moves through unprecedented times. A regular series within HEDx is about the student experience.

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  • Creator
    HEDx
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    248
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © HEDx
  • Show Website
    HEDx

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