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Bridging the Gaps: Supporting Academic Transitions for Student Success

Bridging the Gaps: Supporting Academic Transitions for Student Success:

2025 Teaching and Learning Conference Schedule

Session Title

Presenter(s)

Student Spotlight on Transitions

Victoria Grace-Bland and student partners/panellists (Hattie Jones, Ghanshyam Bhattarai, Aurelien Flatman, Olha Kovalenko, Reiowyn Ferrer, Keerthana Venkatesha, Yashvi Borisagar, Sanket Singh)

 

Keynote presentation: Transitions in, through and out of university: Balancing university key performance metrics with an inclusive human centred approach

 

Dr Katharine Hubbard, Buckinghamshire New University

 

 

Parallel Workshop 1: Transitions to Postgraduate Taught Study

Workshop 1.pptx

 

Dr Tony Churchill (ADE, CQSD), Dr Jo Anna Reed Johnson (IoE), Simon Floodgate (IoE), Dr Caroline Foulkes (IoE), Dr Vicki Aldmington (Careers), Prof Clare Furneaux (APVC)

Parallel Workshop 2; Co-creating assessment and feedback support for successful student transitions

Workshop 2.pdf

Dr Nina Brooke, Dr Michael Kilmister (ADE, CQSD)

 

Parallel Workshop 3: Digital tools and environments to support transitions

Workshop 3 part 1 Treasure hunt maps.pptx

Part 1: Emotionally connected online experiences – how can you build a sense of belonging using Blackboard?

(additional resources)

Workshop 3 part 1.pptx

 

Part 2: Study Advice tools to aid the transition to and through university

Workshop 3 part 2.pptx

 

 

 

Jackie Fairbairn, Lauren McCann (TEL, CQSD)

 

 

 

Alex Wickenden, Dr Ed Powell (Study Advice)

 

Parallel Workshop 4: Supporting Foundation year transitions

Part 1: Spotting the Gaps Early: Lessons learned from identifyingand addressing absence in Foundation Students

Workshop 4 part 1.pdf

 

Part 2: Striking the right balance: subject knowledge, study skills and coaching in a foundation year as aids to successful progression and transition

Workshop 4 part 2.pptx

 

 

 

Dr Mark Peace, Vicky Collins, Rachel Rushton, Brian Turner (ISLI)

 

 

Prof Cindy Becker (Hums)

 

Reading Education Research Network posters

 

Lightning talks and Q&A: Transitions through the student journey

Lightning talk recording

‘Make your first semester a success’: a pre-arrival event with Study Advice

LT Georgia Koromila.pptx

Embedding transition support into the Psychology curriculum: An example from a Part One research methods module

LT Debra Page.pptx

Reassurance on Demand: Recorded Sessions and Student Transitions.

LT Emma Herrod.pptx

From student to professional and back again? Transitions into and out of placements

LT Catherine Foley.pptx

Supporting Finalist-Alumni Transition

LT Vicki Aldmington.pptx

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Georgia Koromila (Study Advice)

 

Dr Debra Page (Psychology)

 

 

Emma Herrod (CQSD, TEL)

 

 

Dr Catherine Foley (IoE)

 

Dr Vicki Aldmington (Careers)