Are you a teaching focused academic? Have you ever felt like you’re different to research colleagues and wondered, ‘am I supposed to be here? Do I fit?’ We have too!
At Advance HE’s 2022 EDI conference we ran a session called ‘Am I supposed to be here? Do I fit?: Developing inclusive ways of working to enable Teaching and Scholarship colleagues to flourish for the benefit of all’. Little did we know at the time that we would find a wonderful group of colleagues who felt similar and for whom many of the ideas we presented resonated.
Are you teaching focused and find this idea resonates too? Do you have an unconventional background, perhaps coming from industry or professional practice? Maybe you are an educational or academic developer or maybe you just feel like a lone voice of passion for the scholarship of teaching and learning in an otherwise research-oriented world?
Our 2022 session aimed to explore the idea that teaching focused colleagues who feel like they are different and, in the minority, but can bring a richness to the academy and the institutions they work for. In addition, they can feel misunderstood and are underrepresented in senior roles.
