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Today at #ISATT2025, I presented an ideation project that connected my lived experiences as a youth trainer in European #NonFormalEducation with my current PhD study on teaching development of UK #HE lecturers. Thanks for the chance to think out loud! @isatt2025.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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⚠️ 2 out of 3 doctoral researchers do NOT find opportunities to teach at their HEIs.

Honestly, it is very worrisome to find such a trend among HEIs, which would rather overload salaried staff with extra teaching rather than employ GTAs and put efforts into developing a new generation of faculty. 😡
Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2024 Opportunity to teach or demonstrate fell from 45% in 2020 to 37% in 2024 spiking shortly in 2023 (46%). The largest decline is in terms of teaching opportunities, which are now at their lowest level since before the pandemic. It is well documented that students are facing a squeeze on affordability of higher education, but HEIs are also under significant pressure financially. While it may be relatively cost effective to deploy PGRs to teach on modules rather than bring in temporary staff, we can also speculate that HEIs may be taking decisions to distribute teaching load more widely among salaried staff as an even more cost-effective solution. Whatever is driving this, it appears that there are fewer PGRs being afforded this key developmental (and financial) opportunity than in recent years.
December 11, 2024 at 11:58 PM
vaniev.bsky.social
📄 First time presenting a method paper at SERA conference with @mmaltcullen.bsky.social – hopefully, more co-authorings and cupcakes to come! 🤞

#PhDLife #seraconf24 #SERA50
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Mapping the sociomaterial: Towards new research possibilities through the lens of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and Social Network Analysis (SNA)
December 2, 2024 at 11:43 PM