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Sarah O Shea
@sarahoshea.bsky.social
Educational equity advocate and researcher
Bluesky folk - please support our study on trauma awareness in HE by reposting the below and participating in the study! Thanks
🚨Calling all uni staff!🚨

I'm running national study with @sarahoshea.bsky.social & @wbf8.bsky.social exploring trauma awareness in Australian universities. Whether you teach, supervise, or support students—we want to hear from you.
🔗 thinkspace.csu.edu.au/traumaawaren...
Trauma Awareness in Australian Higher Education
thinkspace.csu.edu.au
June 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Incredibly excited to be part of a team funded by ACSES to investigate how to support academics towards inclusive curriculum!

Led by Chris Browne and Sally Baker of ANU, with a few of my fav Bluesky friends too @sarahoshea.bsky.social @kieranballoo.bsky.social

www.acses.edu.au/2025-26-larg...
2025-26 Large Grants awarded - ACSES
www.acses.edu.au
December 18, 2024 at 5:52 AM
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🚨In my #NeededNowLT @jasonmlodge.bsky.social
@rmfitzg.bsky.social➕@huijser.bsky.social
👏Adaptive online learning design still matters
🤔Put the ‘impossible’ online
-Virtual reality lab work, group work
-Gamified learning
-GenAI tutors
👍Equity➕inclusion
needednowlt.substack.com/p/the-future...
The Future of Higher Education: Why Online Learning Design Still Matters
Rachel Fitzgerald, University of Queensland; Henk Huijser, Queensland University of Technology
needednowlt.substack.com
November 28, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Wowsers - its like I have stepped back to the glorious Twitter days - thanks Bluesky!
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November 20, 2024 at 1:49 AM
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Come along to the online launch of the Research Handbook on Student Engagement in Higher Education (edited by Cathy Stone & Sarah O'Shea). It's on Tues 19th Nov 6pm (AEDT).

Sally Kift (@kiftsally.bsky.social) will be interviewing Cathy and Sarah, and some of us will share a bit about our chapters.
November 17, 2024 at 3:14 AM
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#Engagement Q&A
▶️Better ways to measure engagement & use it ethically
▶️Gendered & ethic of care (mainly women authors)
▶️Ethic of disruption too
▶️Why is it SO hard to shift institutions' understanding?
Great discussion!
November 19, 2024 at 8:56 AM
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👏#BookLaunch 2day🚀
👇Research Handbook on HE #StudentEngagement
⏰6-8 PM AEDT
🔗Rego uonewcastle.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🤩Fab
->Eds Cathy+Sarah+me
->Authors re
•Online
•Disability
•Regional+Remote
•Carers
•First Nations
•CALMMR
•GypsyTraveller+Roma
@mattbrettltu.bsky.social @crawfordnic.bsky.social
November 19, 2024 at 1:33 AM
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Hugely important area for improvement. #highered
👇Chapt 8 Traversing engagement in HE for student-carers
Sally Savage & Deborah Munro
▶️Thinking about how student-carers navigate complex demands & priorities, with little uni support
▶️Challenges as personal failures OR a combo of structural & cultural influences constraining choice & success
November 19, 2024 at 8:21 AM