Learning & Teaching

The Teaching Excellence Network is a community of leaders in learning and teaching practice, including principal and senior fellows of Recognising Excellence in Teaching (the CPD programme) or Advance HE and UofG Teaching Excellence Award winners. This academic session, we seek to open the network to teaching practitioners en route to become such leaders. To set the scene, we are holding an on-campus symposium on the 16th December and are looking for papers from across the University on leading curriculum and assessment innovations.  

We are open to submissions that snapshot the challenges and lessons of leading change or the development of staff in the areas of curriculum or assessment. We are particularly interested in experiences of curriculum review, programmatic or meaningful assessment, or inclusivity. Your 200-word abstract should convey the need for the change you led, how it was accomplished, what made it difficult, and how you could tell it was making a difference. 

Categories for submission are: 

• Managing change in assessment or curriculum across a course or programme, either as an individual, part of a team, or as team leader. 

• Leading changes towards inclusion and active learning in a course. 

• Leading changes towards inclusivity or authenticity in assessment on a course or programme. 

• Mentoring colleagues in assessment or curriculum practices or mentoring their development as supervisors. 

• Innovations in learning technologies in assessment or curriculum provision 

Your abstract should give some indication as to the perspectives you gained and the solutions you developed as you tackled these experiences in the face of challenges such as heavy workloads, unfamiliar professional situations, and high stakes output. This will ensure that early career members of the audience get the most out of your unique experiences. 

Please submit your abstract by e-mail to Julia.Bohlmann@glasgow.ac.uk by the 21st November at midnight. 

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First published: 6 November 2025