Nine Advance HE member institutions in the UK are to share funding totaling almost £100,000 to find new solutions to current challenges in higher education.
The Collaborative Development Fund is a yearly funding scheme offering Advance HE members grants to carry out project work on important sector challenges and concerns. In the 2023-24 academic year it has awarded grants of up to £10,000 to nine universities across four themes.
Collaborative Development Fund 2023-24 themes
- Generative AI: Beyond assessment - Staffordshire University and the University of Aberdeen successfully bid to explore Generative AI in research practice and examine Generative AI attitudes among HE stakeholders.
- Fit for the Future: adapting practice for the new paradigms of higher education - Northumbria University, Edinburgh Napier University and The University of Manchester are awarded funding to look at the role of industry placement, understand student perspectives and 'becoming' and enhancing student employability through pedagogic consultancy.
- Creating a culture of strategic EDI change - Leeds Trinity University/Go Higher West Yorkshire and the University of London are to address how to build culturally competent access and outreach activity with minorities and how to design higher education for worldwide inclusive cultures.
- Growing the HE workforces of the future - The University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge are awarded the maximum funding amount of £10,000 each for projects that seek to create accessible Design Thinking tools to support education leadership capabilities and Educational Development Communities of Practice.
