HEA@UQ is a professional recognition program that supports those with teaching and learning experience and expertise to gain accreditation through the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
With more than 120,000 Fellows across the world, the HEA Fellowship is a growing international recognition scheme for university educators.
This new initiative is aligned to UQ's Student Strategy 2016-2020 (PDF, 1.2MB) and our commitment to developing contemporary and comprehensive ongoing professional development provisions that support and reward teaching and learning performance and facilitate career progression (Goal 3, Initiative 4).
As part of this commitment, the University is supporting academic and professional staff and RHD students to apply for an HEA Fellowship through the HEA@UQ program.
Benefits
An HEA Fellowship brings you a range of benefits:
- Consolidates personal development and evidence of professional practice in your higher education career.
- Provides a badge of assured quality, and a valuable measure of success recognised internationally.
- Further enhances your career progression, as the Fellowship is increasingly sought by employers across the education sector as a condition of appointment and promotion.
- Identifies your expertise, with the entitlement to use post-nominal letters (AFHEA, FHEA, SFHEA, PFHEA).
- Demonstrates commitment to teaching, learning and the student experience, through engagement in a practical process that encourages research, reflection and development.
Fellowship categories
There are four different categories of Fellowship which reflect the wide range of professional practice carried out by individuals who teach and/or support learning in higher education.
1. Associate Fellow
AFHEA
Early career staff with limited teaching and learning portfolio.
2. Fellow
FHEA
Staff with a few years of experience and/or substantive teaching and learning responsibilities.
3. Senior Fellow
SFHEA
Experienced staff with departmental and/or wider teaching and learning support advisory responsibilities, who have/can mentor new staff.
4. Principal Fellow
PFHEA
Highly experienced staff, able to provide evidence of a sustained and effective record of impact at a strategic level in relation to teaching and learning, as part of a wider commitment to academic practice.
HEA@UQ Fellows Community
The community of HEA Fellows at UQ already counts over 270 members and is growing fast. Three of our Fellows are featured below.
Information sessions
There will be two information sessions held in 2020.
Watch these videos to find out more about the program.
Please note: drop-in sessions are available if you are interested in submitting an EOI, or if you are currently developing a Fellowship application.