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### The spark of collaboration: connecting expertise for institutional impact

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chevron_right - 18 Mar 2026

This is the second blog in our series ‘Beyond boundaries: Collaboration for systemic change in higher education’, where we explore how academics and professional staff at UNSW are reimagining partnerships from everyday interactions to broader inst

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chevron_right - 10 Mar 2026

### Academic mentoring at UNSW: Supporting your learning and teaching journey

By Meredith MacAulay and A/Prof. Anna Rowe. This blog explores how evidence-based academic mentoring at UNSW supports capability building, confidence, and community in learning and teaching.

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### Teaching is relational – but now there are three of us in the relationship

chevron_right - 19 Feb 2026

GenAI has transformed teaching from a traditional student–academic relationship into a complex triadic dynamic, challenging trust, assessment, and the very nature of thinking and learning in higher education.

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### Teaching in the age of AI: why immersive learning matters

chevron_right - 02 Feb 2026

By Dr Fida Hasan and Dr Chris Campbell. As generative AI reshapes assessment, immersive learning can offer a path to authentic engagement that can't be outsourced.

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### Blogging as scholarship: Turning ideas into impact

chevron_right - 02 Feb 2026

By multiple authors. Blogging is the doable, ‘low-hanging fruit’ of scholarly communication: it’s quick to do, easy to share, and surprisingly nourishing for your research profile.

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chevron_right - 15 Dec 2025

### Working in the blur: From transactional encounters to transformative partnerships

This post is the first in a three-part series that explores how academics and professional staff at UNSW are reimagining partnerships from everyday interactions to broader institutional change.

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chevron_right - 23 Oct 2025

### Valid assessment is a plausible argument not an absolute

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### Sitting in: A peek into Education Focussed classrooms

chevron_right - 30 Sep 2025

By Apple Davalos, PVCE

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### Observing the benefits of Competency-Based Assessment through personas

chevron_right - 29 Sep 2025

For many new-to-university students, being graded is a source of not just stress, but distress. Competency-based assessment is showing promise as a way to foster creativity and intrinsic motivation in students, while supporting their wellbeing.

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### Listening to data, leading with belonging: Reflections from the QILT Symposium and NSW HE Summit 2025

chevron_right - 19 Sep 2025

Summits, symposia and conferences offer unique opportunities to share information and gain insights.

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### The importance of promoting critical AI engagement to students

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chevron_right - 08 Aug 2025

AI use across industry and professions is accelerating, and students need to be able to critically engage with this to be employment-ready upon graduation. Dr Sharon Aris contends that, rather than prohibit its us

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### Weaving kindness into the fabric of UNSW's strategic vision

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chevron_right - 01 Aug 2025

By multiple authorsacross UNSW Faculties and Divisions. Particularly since COVID, the idea of incorporating kindness into the university environment has been receiving increased interest.

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### Never waste a good crisis: Why higher education needs a unified approach to curriculum transformation in the AI era

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chevron_right - 03 Jun 2025

By Diana Saragi Turnip, Educational Developer Nexus Program and A/Prof. Priya Khanna Pathak, Nexus Fellow, UNSW Medicine & Health

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