Reflecting on higher education through a psychological lens
[Addendum: 08.08.2025 - some NHS apprenticeships at Level 7 will now continue to be funded for a further 5 years - hooray! News story here] I’ve not covered a lot about education policy here recently but the recent announcement that the government levy for Level 7 (masters level) apprenticeships would be removed for apprentices aged… Continue reading Recent announcement on Level 7 apprenticeships
In the UK, new professors are usually expected to give what is known as an 'inaugural professorial lecture', a public lecture that offers some insight into how the person became a professor, drawing to different extents on the personal and professional stories that intertwine to bring them to the current day. When I was appointed… Continue reading Giving psychology away: Making a difference in higher education
On 29th November, 2024, I was super excited to join T-FUN - the Teaching Focused University Network (Psychology) - to talk about education-focused careers in Psychology. T-FUN is an exciting brand new network for teaching-focused psychology academics! The inaugural webinar featured founders Dr Katy Burgess (Cardiff University) and Prof Louise Taylor (Oxford Brookes University), plus… Continue reading Shining a spotlight on scholarship: Building and developing your profile in an education-focused career in psychology
For education-focused academics, getting promoted can be hard. Even being appreciated just for doing what you do can sometimes be hard. How can we build the kind of profile that contributes to reward and recognition? When your schedule is packed full of teaching, student support, marking, quality assurance, course committees, marking, outreach, not to mention… Continue reading The ‘buy one, get one free’ (BOGOF) model of scholarship in higher education
It was a joy to share my thoughts on student transitions at the SEDA Spring Event on 6th May 2022 (before I moved to my new role at NTU). I took the opportunity to talk about my work on diverse student transitions and also to emphasise my thinking around student voices (see a previous blog… Continue reading SEDA Spring Event 2022: Transitions through higher education
Going to university can be an exciting and challenging time for students, when they explore who they are, how they fit in, and who they want to be. Julie shares her reflections on student transitions into, through, and out of higher education into employment through the lens of 'possible selves'. How can we empower students… Continue reading Belonging, being, and becoming: Exploring possible selves through the transitions into, through, and beyond higher education
How has psychology education changed in the UK over the past decade? As we await the new QAA subject benchmark, due in summer 2023, we can expect a growing emphasis on psychological literacy, the ability to apply psychology to personal, professional, and societal domains, within our degree programmes. We can expect the new benchmark to… Continue reading Psychological literacy in the UK: Outcomes and pedagogy
A recording of a talk given at the GlobalMindED conference on 28th May 2021, in partnership with OneHE. Olivia Fleming; Founder & Director of Partnerships, OneHE moderates the conversation with Dr. Erik Blair; Senior Lecturer, Higher Education Research and Practice, University of West London; Dr. Julie Hulme; reader in Psychology, Keele University; Cleo Keeling Ball;… Continue reading Inclusive learning: Engaging student voices
In March 2021, I had the privilege of talking to the University of Glasgow TILE (Teaching Innovation and Learning Enhancement) network about my work on student transitions. Here you will find a summary of the talk written by Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel. Abstract: The session will focus on the issues that face students during the transition to university,… Continue reading Transitions into and through higher education: Duck to water, or fish out of water?
During the covid-19 pandemic, I presented a talk at the AusPLAT (Australian Psychology Learning and Teaching) 2021 conference, which was uploaded to YouTube by the conference organisers. Here is the abstract - and the link to the video follows. Psychological literacy (the ability to intentionally apply psychology to personal, professional and societal goals) has grown… Continue reading Psychological literacy in the UK: post-pandemic opportunities to bring psychology to life
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