# Education Focussed
**Source**: https://www.education.unsw.edu.au/teaching/education-focussed-careers/tags/education-focussed
**Parent**: https://www.education.unsw.edu.au/teaching/educational-innovation
- 10 Mar 2026
### [Academic mentoring at UNSW: Supporting your learning and teaching journey](/news-events/news/academic-mentoring-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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- 19 Feb 2026
### [Teaching is relational – but now there are three of us in the relationship](/news-events/news/teaching-relational-now-there-are-three-us-relationship)
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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- 08 Dec 2025
### [UNSW academic crosses the boundaries between practice, education and research in genre-busting design projects](/news-events/news/unsw-academic-crosses-boundaries-between-practice-education-research)
UNSW Senior Lecturer Eva Lloyd is bringing her students out into local and international neighbourhoods to learn for themselves how the people in these neighbourhoods live, what they need and want and how to work with them effectively.
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- 30 Sep 2025
### [Sitting in: A peek into Education Focussed classrooms](/news-events/news/sitting-peek-education-focussed-classrooms)
**By Apple Davalos**, PVCE
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- 29 Sep 2025
### [Observing the benefits of Competency-Based Assessment through personas](/news-events/news/observing-benefits-competency-based-assessment-through-personas)
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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- 19 Sep 2025
### [Listening to data, leading with belonging: Reflections from the QILT Symposium and NSW HE Summit 2025](/news-events/news/listening-data-leading-belonging-reflections-qilt-symposium-and-nsw-he-summit-2025)
Summits, symposia and conferences offer unique opportunities to share information and gain insights.
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- 08 Aug 2025
### [The importance of promoting critical AI engagement to students](/news-events/news/importance-promoting-critical-ai-engagement-students)
**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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- 01 Aug 2025
### [Weaving kindness into the fabric of UNSW's strategic vision](/news-events/news/weaving-kindness-unsw-strategic-vision)
**By multiple authors**across 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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- 07 Jul 2025
### [UNSW supports Education Focussed academics in presenting educational research at SoTL conferences](/news-events/news/unsw-supports-education-focussed-academics-presenting-educational-research-sotl-conferences)
The academic tradition of sharing knowledge and connecting with colleagues at conferences is a long one, but enthusiasm has been growing for cross-disciplinary dialogue about learning and teaching.
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- 26 May 2025
### [Mind the gap! Rethinking student reflection](/news-events/news/mind-the-gap-student-reflection)
By **Dr Helen Parker**, Senior Lecturer, School of Management and Governance, UNSW Business School
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- 29 Apr 2025
### [Harnessing the power of a “Multiple Layer Feedback Model"](/news-events/news/harnessing-power-multiple-layer-feedback-model)
By **Harry Han**, Associate Course Coordinator for first-year subjects at the UNSW Business School
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- 18 Mar 2025
### [Evaluation of Teaching as a flavoursome experience](/news-events/news/evaluation-teaching-flavoursome-experience)
By **Dr Daniela Castro de Jong**, **Ms Jacqueline North and Dr Anna Rowe**
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- 21 Feb 2025
### [Peer Review of Journals Mentoring Program is a springboard for scholarship skills](/news-events/news/peer-review-program-springboard)
UNSW’s international award-winning Peer Review of Journals Mentoring Program fills a crucial gap: allowing academics to learn and practice the skills involved in peer-reviewing scholarly research.
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- 10 Dec 2024
### [Embedding sustainability in Business education: UN SDG challenge for first-year students](/news-events/news/embedding-sustainability-in-business-education)
UNSW’s UN SDG Challenge brings sustainability education to life, equipping first-year Business students with the tools, mentorship, and real-world experience to tackle pressing global issues.
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- 05 Dec 2024
### [Human-research ethics for SoTL projects – What do you need to know?](/news-events/news/human-research-ethics-sotl)
The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is a vital aspect of educational practice that strengthens the university community and its practices.
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- 21 Nov 2024
### [The art of designing courses](/news-events/news/art_of_designing_courses)
**By Arup George**
Arup reflects on how his experiences as a CDI workshop participant transformed his entire approach to teaching, and gave him a new appreciation for both the science and the art of course design.
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- 18 Nov 2024
### [Reflecting on the UNSW Course Design Institute Program: Empowering educators for enhanced learning experiences](/news-events/news/unsws-cdi-empowering-educators)
**By Sean Maloney,** Nexus Education Developer
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- 15 Nov 2024
### [Wondering how you can start or increase your SoTL writing? Consider collaboration!](/news-events/news/sotl-writing-consider-collaboration)
By **A/Prof. Lynn Gribble** and **A/Prof. Janis Wardrop**, UNSW Business School
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