Linda Martindale and Stella Howden Aim To explore how academic teaching staff have encountered liminality provoked by the system shock of the pandemic and discuss the implications for enabling transformation towards excellence in teaching This roundtable is for anyone teaching or supporting teaching in Higher Education (HE). Introduction In a literature review carried out before … Continue reading Roundtable: Upsetting the balance: liminality and academic identity during the Covid pandemic →

Hebatallah Shoukry Graduate Apprenticeships are a ground-breaking initiative to create in-house degree qualified employees with key skills customized to the demand of their businesses. One of the benefits of graduate apprenticeships is the use of work-based learning approach, that ensures reflecting on practical applications in the business environment impulsively. Teaching core courses in a graduate … Continue reading Threshold Concepts in Graduate Apprenticeships →

Craig Allardice and Michael Allardice There are many challenges that face mature students when they return to study, but one that is less well acknowledged is the liminal space many find themselves in when they move from being an expert in their own discipline to becoming a novice once again, while those around them assume … Continue reading Crossing the Threshold into Law as a Mature Student →

David Riley The threshold concept phenomenon is intriguing and yet disturbing. On the one hand, we see threshold concepts have immediate appeal to our university and NHS staff taking STEMM-oriented MEd programmes. On the other hand, we find staff with a humanities-orientation can grow with, rather than grow out of, threshold concepts over years of … Continue reading Why are we here? →