THE Campus at UQ
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 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
- 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
- promotion of your content via THE networks including regular newsletters (20,000+ contacts) and social channels
- invitation to participate in webinars and podcasts
- access to a global community of experts where you can comment on and rate resources, bookmark articles and build your network
- 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
Getting back to the basics of pedagogical theory
Deadline for content: Monday 29 July 2024
Practical advice from and for HE professionals on:
- higher-order thinking
- metacognition
- Bloom’s taxonomy
- retrieval practice
- Maslov’s hierarchy
- zone of proximate development
- reflective practice
- scaffolding
- AI-aware pedagogies
- active learning
- student-centred learning
How to factor family into higher education
Deadline for content: Monday 12 August 2024
Practical advice from and for HE professionals on:
- building a sense of belonging for students who are parents
- building a parent-friendly campus
- how can staff be included in efforts to support parents on campus?
- advice for support around the cost of living and accommodation
- community outreach to show parents they can access HE
- how family intersects with other aspects of academic life
- educating personal tutors about challenges and barriers student parents face
- managing maternity/paternity leave in academia
- how to better balance parenting with an academic career
- primary carers share their insight on how they approach work and family
Breaking the mould: incentivising innovation
Deadline for content: Tuesday 27 August 2024
Practical advice from and for HE professionals on:
- how to recognise and/or define innovation
- how to reward innovation in teaching/research/outreach
- how to foster start-up culture among staff/academics
- how to direct research/knowledge transfer
- how give people time to innovate in their practice
- case studies of “how to do things differently” (such as sharing research)
- how to be agile and provoke change
- how to get stakeholder buy-in/leadership backing
- encouraging/facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration
Upcoming THE and Campus and partner events
- 10–11 September: HashTagHigherEdUS, Pittsburgh, US
- 10–11 September: World Engineering, Science and Technology Congress (ESTCON) 2024, Sabah, Malaysia
- 16–18 September: Digital Universities Arab World, Cairo, Egypt
- 23–25 September: Digital Universities Europe, Wroclaw, Poland
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 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.
How to submit content
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
| Name | UQ Org Unit | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Lynette Dawson | Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation | Initiative Lead |
| Professor Paul Mills | School of Veterinary Science | Editorial Lead |
| Professor Karen Healy | School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work | Editorial Lead |
| Associate Professor Deanne Gannaway | Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation | Advisor |
Contact
For all enquiries regarding THE Campus at UQ, please email uqthecampus@uq.edu.au.