UQ has partnered with Times Higher Education (THE) on a new initiative, THE Campus, which presents opportunities for colleagues across UQ to publish advice resources to a global community of higher education professionals.

What is THE Campus?

THE Campus logo

THE Campus is a knowledge sharing and peer-to-peer support platform providing quality, curated resources from academics around the world.

THE Campus – based in the UK – was created as a response to the global pandemic and the need for more peer-to-peer support when it comes to online teaching and learning and digital delivery.

  To unlock all content, you’ll need to register on their website (it’s free).

Benefits

  1. an opportunity to publish content (articles or videos) via a world-leading higher ed website receiving nearly three million unique visitors a month, as well as UQ eSpace
  2. promotion of your content via THE networks including regular newsletters (20,000+ contacts) and social channels
  3. invitation to participate in webinars and podcasts
  4. access to a global community of experts where you can comment on and rate resources, bookmark articles and build your network
  5. access to a space where you can showcase your innovative work and gain recognition.

Topics

Besides specific calls for Spotlights and other series, THE Campus editorial team welcomes content on:

  • course design
  • quality teaching and learning
  • student experience
  • early career research
  • leadership and management
  • equity, diversity and inclusion
  • impact and sustainability
  • internationalisation.

Upcoming Spotlights


How to build data literacy on campus

 Deadline for content: Monday 11 March 2024

Practical advice from and for HE professionals on:

  • how and when to manage/analyse/store data
  • how to assess and build data literacy skills among staff and faculty
  • access/visualisation/cleaning data
  • how to teach data literacy to undergraduates
  • why humanities students need to be data literate, too
  • how to include data literacy in CPD
  • what can go wrong if staff/students don’t understand how to use or manage data?
  • embedding data literacy in the curriculum
  • teaching logic to students
  • data literacy for PhD students, postdocs and researchers.

How to develop a tough skin for the cold, hard world of higher education

 Deadline for content: Monday 25 March 2024

Practical advice from and for HE professionals on:

  • anxiety over public speaking
  • what to do when students make you cry
  • dealing with bad feedback/peer reviews
  • what to do when your student surveys are awful
  • should I care about my Rate My Professor score?
  • resilience skills to cope with rejection of a paper/job application/funding proposal
  • how to persist through setbacks in your research
  • how to deal with competition in your department
  • setting boundaries for your own wellbeing.

Assessments and AI

 Deadline for content: Monday 8 April 2024

Practical advice from and for HE professionals on:

  • how to foster critical thinking
  • what are we measuring?
  • how to re-invent assessments to robustly measure learning
  • how to assess students’ AI literacy
  • how to decide if your assessments are still fit for purpose
  • ungrading in an age of AI
  • is generative AI friend or foe?
  • AI and feedback mechanisms
  • remote proctoring and how to make it work.

Upcoming THE and Campus and partner events

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Guidelines

Submissions are accepted as short videos, texts with a short video introduction, or longer form text pieces that are no more than 800 words.

Please read THE Campus resource guide (PDF, 149.3 KB) before you submit any content. Your content should be crafted as an advice resource. THE Campus is not looking for opinion pieces, news features, project case studies or promotional pieces.

In addition, if you wish to submit a video, please read THE Campus video resource guide (PDF, 140.1 KB).

How to submit content

  1. After reading the above guidelines, please email your content to THE Campus at UQ editorial team at uqthecampus@uq.edu.au to start the internal review process.
    • Note: for Spotlights, we operate on tight deadlines and are unable to provide any extension (please see ‘Upcoming Spotlights’) above for deadlines.
  2. Once received, we will review your content. Depending on its editorial merit, we will forward the piece to THE Campus team in the UK. If accepted, we will help you curate the content if necessary.
  3. Once you (and the UK-based editorial team) are happy with a resource, it will be published within a month of finalisation. All content submitted by UQ will appear on this page once published. Please note that we cannot offer any guarantee that your content will be published once submitted.

THE Campus at UQ team

THE Campus at UQ team will help you curate your submission before sending it out to THE Campus editorial team in the UK.

NameUQ Org UnitRole
Lynette DawsonInstitute for Teaching and Learning InnovationInitiative Lead
Professor Paul MillsSchool of Veterinary ScienceEditorial Lead
Professor Karen HealySchool of Nursing, Midwifery and Social WorkEditorial Lead
Associate Professor Deanne GannawayInstitute for Teaching and Learning InnovationAdvisor

Contact

For all enquiries regarding THE Campus at UQ, please email uqthecampus@uq.edu.au.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)