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Join Catherine and Mike as they meet Catherine Wynne, Reader in English and Lucyl Harrison, PhD student in English, both members of the Living with Death - Learning from COVID research cluster at the University of Hull. They explore how a chance conversation as part of a personal supervision session led to the development of a podcast with a now global listenership and talk all things public engagement, research development, the wider PhD journey and podcasting as a diverse way of engaging with learning & assessment.Dr Catherine Wynne is Reader in Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century Literary & Visual Cultures and Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise in the Faculty of Arts, Cultures and Education. Catherine supervises Lucyl's PhD thesis on the language and literature of COVID & pandemics and as Associate Dean, leads a team responsible for the faculty's postgraduate researchers.  Lucyl Harrison is a PhD researcher specialising in how viral experience narratives are archived during pandemics with a focus on the emerging genre of Covid fiction. She founded the podcast, Pandemic Pages, which explores how writers have responded to the coronavirus pandemic through literature. Featuring in-depth conversations with authors, academics, and creative voices, Pandemic Pages brings listeners an insightful look into the cultural and emotional impact of pandemics on storytelling. She is also a 'Story Maker' at the National Centre for Writing in Norwich, Norfolk.Catherine: “When you’re working with PhD students, you need to start thinking about developing them for the knowledge exchange and creating all of those other professional skills sets that can be adaptable in various ways”Lucyl: “When I started my PhD I kind of needed to be practical about the academic space and jobs because not everybody gets a job in academia afterwards… so part of the reason of doing the podcast was building a digital portfolio […] trying to set myself up outside… [but it’s been so much more!]… and a really good networking tool.Further linksListen to Pandemic Pages podcastFollow Pandemic Pages on InstagramThank you for taking time to listen to the podcast. We hope you enjoy it.Please do subscribe and share it with anyone you think might enjoy.Cup of TEA artwork created by Layla Jabbari

This week Catherine and Mike meet Emma Palmer and Tim Prior and discuss a new helpful way to look at personal supervision conversations. Drum roll please for the soft launch of their BREADCAKE!Emma Palmer is the Director of Foundation Year at the University of Hull, who oversees the provision for the integrated Foundation Years. She has a keen interest in Student identity and their sense of belonging, depending on how this is influenced depending on their academia, social and environmental circumstances.Tim Prior is Head of Chemistry and Senior Tutor in the School of Natural Sciences. He has been heavily involved in promoting the use of the student voice as a positive force for change at the University. He is a strong advocate for the transformative power of education and the importance of personal supervision. He has won faculty and university awards for his contribution to student experience in Hull.He is expecting to leave the University in July 2025 at the closure of Chemistry and the cessation of Chemistry teaching. Emma: “if you had a student in that scenario, what would you [a personal supervisor] do… this acronym is a great way of structuring this conversation naturally, as well as being aware of key things you would do as a personal supervisor”Tim: “learning to learn independently- that’s what University life should be about, isn’t it? […] For me, being able to reflect on what you’ve done is important. I do always encourage students to reflect on their performance- how did those exams go? What did you learn about yourself? what worked? What would you do differently?”What is a Personal Supervision BREADCAKE?Be availableReassureEmpathiseAdviseDirect to supportCreate actionAskKeep recordsEnjoyThank you for taking time to listen to the podcast. We hope you enjoy it.If you have not subscribed yet, please do and share it with anyone you think might enjoy.Cup of TEA artwork created by Layla Jabbari

Join Catherine and Mike in this podcast as they discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on higher education with Dr Dionysios Demetis, Reader in management systems at Hull University Business School.“I think we need to convince also our students that however sophisticated these tools appear to us, they are effectively computational fraudsters in text generation, and they have sort of substituted the human contextual aspect by embedding artificial mechanisms as artificial substitutes for the real thing… and the only way to do that is to put the students in the space between that!”ReferenceDionysios' latest book: The Technological Construction of Reality, co-written with Ian O. Angell. Edward Elgar Publishing, July 2024.Thank you for taking time to listen to the podcast. We hope you enjoy it.Please do subscribe and share it with anyone you think might enjoy.Cup of TEA artwork created by Layla Jabbari

In this podcast, Catherine and Mike discuss playful learning with Simon and guest John.Simon Grey is the programme director for the Computer Science for Games Programming degree courses at the University of Hull and is an advocate for creating playful and fun learning experiences for students. He also runs regular board games sessions for staff to help encourage collaboration between cross-disciplinary groups.John Lean is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he leads the award-winning co-curricular experiential programme Rise. His background is in philosophy teaching and education innovation, and he focuses on using play to develop agency and democracy in university students. In his spare time he plays too many videogames, drinks too much coffee and tries to encourage a four-year old to listen to Steely Dan.Simon: “If you believe that every module has a goal and rules, voluntary participation and feedback, [then] it’s already a game!”John: “As an education philosophy, it’s about empowerment and agency and having the freedom to do things differently.” Useful links and referencesThe Playful Learning Association site is the best place to start for anyone who wants to get involved. Details of the conference on there too: https://playfullearningassoc.co.uk/John's quote "playing a game is a voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles" is from Bernard Suits' book The Grasshopper, John's favourite work on play. Simon's definition of a game is from Dr Jane McGonigal's book “Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”and also mentioned by Simon: Ryan and Deci’s theory of motivation – self-determination theory (Ryan, R.M. and Deci, E.L., 2024. Self-determination theory. In Encyclopedia of quality of life and well-being research (pp. 6229-6235). Cham: Springer International Publishing)Thank you for taking time to listen to the podcast. We hope you enjoy it.Please do subscribe and share it with anyone you think might enjoy.Cup of TEA artwork created by Layla Jabbari

In this podcast, Catherine and Mike meet Ann Kaegi, lecturer in English and Lesley Morrell, Faculty of Science & Engineering Associate Dean (Education). They are joined by student partners Ben Ryan and Emma-Rose Walters, respectively under-graduate in History and Criminology*, two of the eight student partners on their project Education for Sustainable Development Changemakers. They passionately report on their achievements last year with the support of Student Organising for Sustainability UKEmma-Rose has now moved to another institution to undertake P/G studies.... "It's important for us to understand that without an understanding of the role of humanities, the social sciences and the arts, we will not be able to pivot towards the sort of revolutionary changes in our behaviour, in our technology, in our outlook about what we need to do individually and collectively to create a more sustainable world."...… “one of the conclusions we came to is that science is what’s going to save the world but humanities is why it’s worth saving!”...Thank you for taking time to listen to the podcast. We hope you enjoy it.Please do subscribe and share it with anyone you think might enjoy.Cup of TEA artwork created by Layla Jabbari

In this episode, Catherine and Mike meet Andrea Hilton, Reader in Advance Practice in the School of Paramedical PeriOperative and Advanced Practice, who talks about her experience of blended teaching approaches on the Faculty of Health Sciences non-medical prescribing course. Andrea’s teaching focus and expertise is with non-medical prescribing. This is where qualified health care professionals undertake an advanced qualification which enable them (nurses, pharmacists and some allied health professionals such as physiotherapists) to prescribe medication. Andrea has been directly involved with this course since 2006. Andrea is enthusiastic about using the virtual learning environment to support a variety of teaching and learning strategies and enable a digital pedagogical approach. She is designing her sessions to be both blended and future proofed if fully online is needed.Andrea is an active researcher in the field of clinical pharmacy/applied health research with a particular focus on prescribing and dementia. “Its’ not ‘one size fits all’! It’s almost like you want to cherry pick techniques and then… that will work, that won’t work! […] Try it, refine it and don’t underestimate time… be open to change and developing your own competence.” Thank you for taking time to listen to the podcast. We hope you enjoy it.Please do subscribe and share it with anyone you think might enjoy.Cup of TEA artwork created by Layla Jabbari

In this podcast, Catherine and Mike meet Hannah Worthen, early career academic based at the Energy and Environment Institute who also teaches in the School of Environmental Sciences. She was recently awarded Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, the application for which drew on her work developing inclusive and participatory teaching practices.Asher is a second year student in the School of Environmental Sciences just returning from a fieldtrip to Tenerife.www.queeringthemap.com was referred to in the recording.Hannah: "Just listen and be willing to learn... accept that there are gaps in your knowledge and in your experiences... there is always more work to be done and in particular if there is any work that we can do as teachers that gives students a voice, then I think that's really important"Asher: “... include trans people in the conversation, have their input rather than you think might be best for them!!Thank you for taking time to listen to the podcast. We hope you enjoy it.Please do subscribe and share it with anyone you think might enjoy.Cup of TEA artwork created by Layla Jabbari

This week Catherine and Mike meet Brian Houston, Knowledge Exchange lecturer based in the Aura Innovation Centre, discussing his academic journey through research, teaching and knowledge exchange (KE).Brian is a Mechanical Engineering Knowledge Exchange Lecturer, and Manager of the Aura InventX initiative. As a KE advocate he is passionate about facilitating collaboration through the delivery of multi-disciplinary Research, Development, and Innovation projects; and bringing together the Aura Innovation Centre (AIC) facility and team, academic and technical colleagues from across the University, and external stakeholders over real world innovation challenges. He aims to increase utilisation of, and accessibility to, University Research and Development capabilities; and to combine them with academic expertise to support Knowledge Exchange initiatives, increase research impact, and to encourage progressive education.“The ethos of Knowledge Exchange is integral to both research and education […] whenever I was standing in a lecture theatre projecting to a group of students, you could generally always be confident you were the most knowledgeable in that subject in that room at that particular time. In the Knowledge Exchange domain, I find myself standing in front of public audiences and you just look into the audience, and you could have someone there with 40 years in the industry, an expert in that particular area. At the same time, he is probably there to understand what I know about the subject at that time because he is open minded to be engaging in that way. So I tend to, as a result, go into a conversation humble, expecting to understand the person you are speaking to, before you are expected to be understood... and I think that works for the other domains as well. You need to know what level of understanding of your subject students have.“ You can contact Brian on LinkedIn.InventX brochure Thank you for taking time to listen to the podcast. We hope you enjoy it.Please do subscribe and share it with anyone you think might enjoy.Cup of TEA artwork created by Layla Jabbari

In this podcast, Catherine and Mike meet Clare Whitfield, Lecturer in Advanced Practice in Faculty of Health Sciences.Clare's focus is on teaching healthcare students and registered practitioners research methods and the use of research to inform evidence-based practice. Clare has over 20 years’ experience teaching research and research methods, across a range of academic disciplines, including Social Sciences and Education. She works with a wide range of student, including undergraduates, postgraduate taught and postgraduate research candidates. Clare is enthusiastic about using innovative approaches to teaching and learning and has recently achieved senior fellow of AdvanceHE. Clare is an active qualitative researcher, with an interest in teenage sexual health and pregnancy, women’s health and distance care and enjoys using her experiences as a researcher to inform her teaching practice.“i thought if I could get the students to really think about the assignment, they would start to make some connections about what we learn across the module... [an extra] way of going through an assignment…  not just ‘that’s what you are expected to do"... it’s a really important moment when students make it their own assignment… and using pictures to make things just every day where people feel they can be comfortable with the idea.” Assignment burgerThank you for taking time to listen to the podcast. We hope you enjoy it.Please do subscribe and share it with anyone you think might enjoy.Cup of TEA artwork created by Layla Jabbari