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Katherine J. Haxton

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Chemistry Education particularly social justice and equity, sustainability, and mini-problem based learning. Regularly tilts at wind turbines. Academic surviving/striving/thriving in English Higher Education. Scot in exile. Blog: https://kjhaxton.com/

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Katherine J. Haxton @kjhaxton.com · 4h

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Slowing Down AI in Higher Education - HEPI

This blog was kindly authored by Sam Illingworth, Professor of Creative Pedagogies at Edinburgh Napier University. Debates about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education tend to fall into two...

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Katherine J. Haxton @kjhaxton.com · 13h

A6 I'm going to build in a 'useful thing' on the first slide of each session to remind students of something - a resource, an event - that might help. #LTHEchat

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Katherine J. Haxton @kjhaxton.com · 13h

That's what desktop wall paper is for! #LTHEchat

Katherine J. Haxton @kjhaxton.com · 13h

How do we support staff and students in establishing boundaries that are 'just' boundaries and not raising barriers to greater belonging and other factors that positively impact mental wellbeing? #LTHEchat

Katherine J. Haxton @kjhaxton.com · 14h

A5 definitely images from nature if the 'real thing' is not accessible (I'm far too far from the coast here). #LTHEchat

Blue cloudy sky, the ocean with land just visible on the other side. Waves arriving at a golden sandy beach.

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Katherine J. Haxton @kjhaxton.com · 14h

Good point! But let's not replace actual people with AI service management systems...#LTHEchat

Katherine J. Haxton @kjhaxton.com · 14h

Magic fairy dust academic time... #LTHEchat

Katherine J. Haxton @kjhaxton.com · 14h

So much this. So many students apologise for being humans with big messy complex lives and feelings. Full disclosure: I do have one class session that's mostly designed to frustrate students to make a key point around decision making , and I get ranted at by half the room in that #LTHEchat

Katherine J. Haxton @kjhaxton.com · 14h

It always feels more friendly to direct students to named people rather than role email accounts or web-based query submission forms. I get why they increase efficiency but...sigh...there's something other than be said for personal interaction #LTHEchat

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Katherine J. Haxton @kjhaxton.com · 14h

Have you seen the one that Mind has? www.mind.org.uk/media/lbahso... We're planning to use it across our school, debating whether to extend to students #LTHEchat

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Katherine J. Haxton @kjhaxton.com · 14h

A4 some examples of approaches that others take that work - we all need ideas grounded in evidence. And the awareness that our students are not us and may value different things around work-life balance (Academics aren't exactly great role models for that) #LTHEchat

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Katherine J. Haxton @kjhaxton.com · 14h

Thanks! Using class time for formative is great - I've seen too many approaches where things were converted to formative but remain deadlines to be completed in students study time #LTHEchat

Katherine J. Haxton @kjhaxton.com · 14h

A3 we might also consider the idea that 'the staff experience is the student experience' and one key way of embedding mental wellbeing may be to ensure the staff are broadly OK. #LTHEchat

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Katherine J. Haxton @kjhaxton.com · 14h

A3 I've tried to look at student workload to move assessments into less busy periods like the first six weeks of semester, tried to offer greater flexibility around deadlines and modes of completing assessment. I guess indirectly those support mental wellbeing #LTHEchat

Katherine J. Haxton @kjhaxton.com · 14h

That's really interesting. Does it reduce the overall number of things to do (formative + summative)? And does the scaffolding offset the higher stakes summative assessment? #LTHEchat

Katherine J. Haxton @kjhaxton.com · 14h

I've been trying to stagger my module intro this year to 'just in time' info rather than the 'front load it all in week 1 and expect them to remember' approach. Contemplating a 'useful thing of the week' to keep it going throughout the module but worried I'm. just repeating stuff. #LTHEchat

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 14h

A2 Most students want clear expectations, deadlines and to know what good looks like. This will help them with their wellbeing. Offer this to staff too. You are on your way to a happier institution. #LTHEChat

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Katherine J. Haxton @kjhaxton.com · 14h

A2 Do students differentiate between the curriculum and the other aspects of uni enough to set expectations? I suspect they expect not to be overwhelmed, want to be taught by people who care, want to belong. Would expectations be so specific? #LTHEchat

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Katherine J. Haxton @kjhaxton.com · 14h

A1 but If I'm completely honest, it does make me want to sigh at 'yet another thing I need to be supporting in my sessions and there are already so many it's starting to look like a Christmas tree' #LTHEchat

Katherine J. Haxton @kjhaxton.com · 14h

Agree - that it's not something that we should give active consideration to in classes we're literally designing and running...sigh. #LTHEchat

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@suebecks @suebecks.bsky.social · 14h

Do join us with @ntfellows.bsky.social NTF Prof @zoe-a-z.bsky.social to talk about embedding mental wellbeing #LTHEchat

LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 17h

Join us for #LTHEchat with @zoe-a-z.bsky.social at 8pm GMT/ BST today.
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LTHEChat 338 Embedding Mental Wellbeing

Join us on Bluesky with guest Professor Zoë Allman @zoe-a-z.bsky.social on Wednesday 8th October 2025 at 20:00 BST Mental health and wellbeing are important topics that are increasingly discussed i…

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Katherine J. Haxton @kjhaxton.com · 14h

and possibly just the amount of 'stuff' we're attempting to cover #LTHEchat

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Katherine J. Haxton @kjhaxton.com · 14h

A1 that our curriculum design should support mental wellbeing intrinsically by not subjecting students to undue stress, anxiety or other course-induced threats to mental wellbeing. #LTHEchat

Katherine J. Haxton @kjhaxton.com · 14h

Evening All! Hope you've had a good day #LTHEchat

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 23h

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Stay tuned for the full story to come! cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

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The 2025 chemistry Nobel goes to MOFs

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi win the prize for developing metal–organic frameworks

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