QAA Membership Podcast

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QAA Membership Podcast

The QAA Membership Podcast series hosts discussions on some of the biggest issues facing higher education institutions. 

  1. JAN 31

    Vicki Stott in conversation with Paul Greatrix

    In the latest edition of the QAA podcast, our Chief Executive Vicki Stott talks with Paul Greatrix – who last month retired from his position as Registrar at the University of Nottingham at the end of a 36-year career in higher education. Together, Vicki and Paul consider the changes that the sector has gone through over the last few decades and the challenges it faces today, as they anticipate the developments ahead in 2025. Topics include the challenges and opportunities raised by the lifel...

    1h 5m

  2. 12/06/2024

    Terms of engagement

    Our latest podcast focuses on the challenges and opportunities raised by approaches to student engagement. Hosted by QAA's Dr Matt Denton, this episode considers how strategies for learner engagement might develop to address the needs of a higher education environment which has, in recent years, been radically affected by the impacts of a series of traumatic developments: the Covid-19 crisis, the cost-of-living crisis and the ongoing student mental health crisis. Our podcast considers how edu...

    43 min

  3. 10/16/2024

    Academic integrity and generative artificial intelligence

    Our latest QAA podcast marks the International Day of Action for Academic Integrity (IDOA). This global event takes place online on 16 October and will include a panel convened by QAA and chaired by our Chief Executive Vicki Stott. Hosted by QAA's Dr Kerr Castle, this new episode features Loughborough University's Professor Sandie Dann and IDOA co-chair Professor Mary Davis: Sandie is a member of a team from Loughborough which has led a new QAA-funded Collaborative Enhancement Project e...

    36 min

  4. 08/30/2024

    Evaluation 101

    Chaired by our regular host Dr Kerr Castle, QAA's latest podcast explores the effective evaluation of higher education practices and initiatives, and how to make approaches to evaluation meaningful and manageable. Kerr's guests this month are Liz Austen, Professor of Higher Education Evaluation at Sheffield Hallam University, and Stella Jones-Devitt, Professor of Critical Pedagogy at Staffordshire University. Between 7 November and 12 December, the Quality Assurance Agency will run a...

    43 min

  5. 08/08/2024

    What we've learnt from TEF 2023

    In QAA's latest podcast, our regular host Dr Kerr Castle chairs an expert panel for a lively discussion reflecting on what we've learnt from TEF 2023. Kerr is joined by Professor Claire Pike (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education Enhancement at Anglia Ruskin University), Roscoe Hastings (Director of Teaching Enhancement and Excellence at the University of Exeter), and our very own Helena Vine, the Lead Policy Officer for England here at QAA. During the conversation, they chat about what we...

    52 min

  6. 06/28/2024

    The value of the UK Quality Code for Higher Education

    This latest QAA podcast marks the publication of the new edition of the UK Quality Code for Higher Education. Our guests are Dr Helen Driscoll, interim PVC for learning & Teaching at the University of Sunderland, Swansea University's Dr Kate Chapman, co-organiser of the QAA Programme Leaders Network, Rachel Sutton, Associate Director of Quality at the University of London, Charlotte Baker, president of Winchester SU, and Ruth Burchell, Quality Enhancement & Standards Specialist at QAA...

    46 min

  7. 05/07/2024

    Awarding gaps

    In this episode, our regular host Dr Kerr Castle introduces a discussion of awarding gaps and what we can do to close them. Kerr is joined by Kevin Brazant, Progression & Attainment Project Manager at the University of the Arts London, Dr Sally Andrews, Pedagogic Projects Development Manager at Staffordshire University, Professor Nicky King, Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Exeter, and Professor Gabriella Cagliesi from the University of Sussex. Through the course of t...

    1h 2m

  8. 04/05/2024

    Competence-based education

    In this episode, Dr Kerr Castle introduces a discussion of how the core concepts of competence-based education compare with those of more traditional educational models and how the purposes of assessment might be reimagined through competence-based education. He is joined by Mike Ewen, the Head of the Teaching Academy at the University of Hull, along with Dr Dom Henri, Senior Lecturer in Zoology, and Dr Andrew Holmes, Senior Lecturer in Education, both also at Hull. They are members of ...

    54 min
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The QAA Membership Podcast series hosts discussions on some of the biggest issues facing higher education institutions. 

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  • Creator
    QAA Membership
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    29
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2025 QAA Membership Podcast
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    QAA Membership Podcast

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