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Academic Practice, Management and Leadership

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We continually aspire to challenge ourselves and others to create learning communities that are inclusive, equitable, sustainable and high performing.  The academic practice, management and leadership development that we offer supports individuals, and course teams to reflect, review develop flexible, high quality, digitally-enabled student experiences that prepare students for success.  Helping you to be confident, extend your capabilities and constructively challenge within the academic community to respond to future challenges.

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Academic Leadership and Management

Under the Hallam Deal, we support your development needs around specific academic roles.

Course Leadership: Development Programme

With such a pivotal role in the University your development matters. This is a course leadership development programme that runs throughout the academic year. You’ll learn along with your peers, have a tailored programme that explores leading through influence, inclusive practice, course management and the academic cycle, having difficult conversations, evaluation and celebrating your successes.  

Module Leadership

New to module leadership or wanting to refresh your understanding of the role? Find out more about module leadership, the principles and support available.

External Examining

We offer two courses for staff on External Examining. A half-day workshop that explores the steps involved in securing an external examining role and the nationally accredited Advance HE professional development course for external examiners.  

Hallam Aspire

This programme aims to provide opportunities for those who identify as a women (including transwomen and non-binary people comfortable in a female centred community) academics to understand and navigate the Teaching/Reader Professorial route. Read more about our Hallam Aspire Programme.  

  • Giving an overview of the scheme, to see if it is right for you and point you in the right direction if it is not. 
  • Providing mentoring, helping you to access mentors within and outside of the institution (through the UniConnect Offer) that will support your career aspirations and where you are on your journey. 
  • Create and sustain a career development network of support for those who identify women.  Support the applications from those who identify women through the Professorial route.   
  • Recognise the intersectional nature of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, and race, and create opportunities for those who identify as women from underrepresented groups to help create durable pipelines to senior or Professorial positions at Sheffield Hallam 

This programme will:  

  • Run twice a year. 
  • Host an information event to find out if this is right for you – dates to follow.
  • Run the first cohort – dates to follow.  
  • Run the second cohort – dates to follow. 

For more information about this programme, please contact Claire Walsh, Head of Academic Development & Inclusivity via Academic Development & Diversity. 

Development opportunities

Advance HE offer various leadership development programmes:

Also visit Academic Essentials: Advance HE Membership Benefits page for details of EDI related leadership programmes. 

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Academic Practice

Case Studies

Would you like to share your successes and challenges with your colleagues? Complete our case study template and return to Academic Development & Diversity.  We can then integrate this into our range of Academic Essentials resources for best practice across the institution. 

A collection of journal articles, book chapters and conference presentations from colleagues at Hallam (word). 

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Resources

Brought to you by WonkHE, a collection of webinars from their Education Espresso – a shot of pedagogical inspiration series:

Meeting my Role Models: An Insight into Imposter Syndrome: Shruti Mandhani, Research Fellow, Sheffield Hallam University.  This is my journey of speaking to my role models in academia, and learning more about my imposter syndrome. #WomenInSTEM #PublicEngagement #SciComm.

Published conference paper: Bradley, S. & Holden, G. (2009). Developing academic leadership. In O. Kallioinen, (Ed.) The learning by developing – new ways to learn 2009 conference proceedings. Laurea publications (D7). Espoo, Finland, Laurea University of Applied Sciences, 231-242. 

Visit Academic Essentials: induction, roles, work planning and development overview page for details of how we support our academic colleague’s. 

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Last updated: 9th November 2022 NB