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Educational Leadership Actions

Educational leadership actions

Identified by departments

Departments are taking significant steps to strengthen educational leadership, build sustainable governance structures, support early‑career educators, embed continuous improvement, and enhance student partnership. Actions show a shared institutional commitment to cultivating strong leadership pipelines, improving coordination across committees and programmes, expanding peer‑learning and reflective practice, and strengthening cross‑institutional collaboration to support high‑quality, inclusive and future‑focused education.

1. Leadership structures and governance

  • Restructure and clarify educational leadership roles to increase resilience and continuity.
  • Develop or refine leadership teams to strengthen oversight of teaching and learning.
  • Review and delegate responsibilities to ensure balanced and sustainable role distribution.
  • Create formal role descriptors, defined workload allocations, and clearer reporting lines.
  • Implement systematic succession planning through shadowing, planned progression routes, and structured leadership pipelines.
  • Strengthen committee structures and improve information flow across SSLC → Department → School → Faculty.

2. Staff development and early career support

  • Launch Early Career Networks to build community, support integration, and encourage confidence among new educators.
  • Provide structured mentoring for early‑career staff, including those on academic probation and teaching‑focused pathways.
  • Support colleagues seeking Fellowship recognition and those participating in APPTE or STP/GTA programmes.
  • Offer development opportunities through teaching networks, Away Days, scholarship leadership roles, and professional communities of practice.
  • Provide guidance, templates and forums that encourage sharing of effective teaching practice.

3. Peer dialogue and continuous improvement

  • Reinvigorate peer‑dialogue schemes to support developmental conversations and reflective teaching practice.
  • Embed continuous improvement through shared vetting of assessment criteria, online resources, and teaching materials.
  • Use departmental Away Days for structured exchange of good practice and cross‑team learning.
  • Develop resource hubs, guidance libraries and showcases of effective educational approaches.
  • Strengthen use of feedback data (student feedback, module results, surveys) to inform pedagogic enhancement.

4. Student voice, inclusion and community

  • Enhance SSLC structures and widen student representation at School and Faculty levels.
  • Create new routes for student engagement, including asynchronous feedback channels, programme‑specific forums and structured consultation opportunities.
  • Support student‑led excellence initiatives aimed at addressing attainment gaps, academic skills, and wellbeing needs.
  • Strengthen community‑building through social events, peer networks, and inclusive engagement activities.
  • Integrate student survey outputs more effectively into committee discussions and action planning.

5. Cross-institutional and interdisciplinary collaboration

  • Develop cross‑School peer‑dialogue schemes connecting staff with shared challenges, delivery modes or student demographics.
  • Collaborate with institutional bodies such as IATL, WIHEA and interdisciplinary teaching clusters to strengthen pedagogic innovation.
  • Establish shared governance structures that support consistent practice across UG, PGT and PGR provision.
  • Align departmental priorities and enhancement activity with broader University strategies and frameworks.
  • Contribute to development of cross‑institutional teaching models, including digital, stackable, enterprise‑infused and interdisciplinary approaches.

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