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Vikki Hill @vikkihill.bsky.social · Aug 21

Come and work with us!

I am pleased to share that we are looking for a new senior lecturer to join our team at @qmuniversity.bsky.social Please share with your networks and feel free to get in touch to discuss the role.

Find out more and apply here:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK093/s...

Senior Lecturer (Learning Enhancement and Academic Development) at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Senior Lecturer (Learning Enhancement and Academic Development) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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Vikki Hill @vikkihill.bsky.social · Aug 2

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Vikki Hill @vikkihill.bsky.social · Aug 2

Compassionate Assessment Practice Sharing Symposium, 11 September 2025

We are pleased to announce that the Compassionate Assessment Network is hosting an online symposium. We warmly invite educators, researchers, policymakers and administrators to join us. Call out for submission details here:

Compassionate Assessment Practice Sharing Symposium, 11 September 2025 | Vikki Hill

Compassionate Assessment Practice Sharing Symposium, 11 September 2025 We are pleased to announce that the Compassionate Assessment Network is hosting an online symposium on 11 September 2025. We war...

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Vikki Hill @vikkihill.bsky.social · Aug 2

@sandra-abegglen.bsky.social @danceswithcloud.bsky.social @tomburns.bsky.social @richardheller.bsky.social @ncurrant.bsky.social @chrisrowell.bsky.social @profsambroadhead.bsky.social @janmcarthur.bsky.social @ddubdrahcir.bsky.social @santanuvasant.bsky.social @jamdsf123.bsky.social

Stories of Hope: Reimagining Education

Bringing together a diverse range of educators and practitioners, this collection showcases real-world innovations that challenge the status quo and offer glimpses of a more humane and inspiring educa...

www.openbookpublishers.com

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Vikki Hill @vikkihill.bsky.social · Aug 2

#compassion; #belonging; #social #justice; #pedagogy; Higher Education; policy
Stories of Hope: Reimagining Education - edited by Sandra Abegglen Tom Burns 🖤Richard Heller,
RajanMadhok, Fabian Neuhaus, @John Sandars, Sandra Singield and Upasana Gitanjali S. - 2025 - Open Book Publishers

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Vikki Hill @vikkihill.bsky.social · Aug 2

person-centred resources can support more inclusive and humane pedagogies. They outline practical strategies for embedding an ecology of compassion within institutions and highlight the necessity of systemic, institutional commitment to challenge inequitable policies and practices in HE.

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Vikki Hill @vikkihill.bsky.social · Aug 2

cultivation of belonging through relational learning communities that honour interconnectedness, shared humanity, and equitable power dynamics.
Through a case study of a digital educational development platform, the authors demonstrate how compassionately designed, co-produced, dialogic, and

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Vikki Hill @vikkihill.bsky.social · Aug 2

30. Belonging through compassion: Supporting hope through the design of a website for educational development and social justice books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...
This chapter advocates for a compassionate approach to HE as a pathway to achie social justice. Central to this vision is the

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Vikki Hill @vikkihill.bsky.social · Aug 2

This was such an important piece of work for us on our journey to understand #compassion, #trauma-informed practice and #belonging in academic enhancement and digital spaces. There are so many people to thank for this... Thank you again to the amazing editors for pulling this together!

Stories of Hope: Reimagining Education

Bringing together a diverse range of educators and practitioners, this collection showcases real-world innovations that challenge the status quo and offer glimpses of a more humane and inspiring educa...

www.openbookpublishers.com

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Vikki Hill @vikkihill.bsky.social · Aug 2

I am so happy to be part of this fantastic collection of academics sharing their 'stories of hope' as an invitation to reimagine education. The chapter that @Liz Bunting and I contributed is a reflection on the development of our website belongingthroughcompassion.myblog.arts.ac.uk

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Vikki Hill @vikkihill.bsky.social · Aug 2

Thanks Amanda! 😊

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Jesse Stommel (Jessifer) @jessifer.bsky.social · Jun 27

“Turnitin monetizes student intellectual property and contributes to a culture of suspicion in education.”

I’m quoted in a recent article from @themarkup.org @calmatters.org and @chronicle.com

themarkup.org/artificial-i...

California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it? – The Markup

Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever.

themarkup.org

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QAA @qaa.ac.uk · Mar 10

"How can we move towards thinking about assessment as a relational and ethical act?" This is a question that Dr Karen Gravett, Associate Head (Research), @uniofsurrey.bsky.social explores as part of our new video series on Compassionate Assessment in Higher Education.

Watch here: lnkd.in/eASbPEeb

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QAA @qaa.ac.uk · Mar 24

The team behind the QAA-funded Collaborative Enhancement Project 'Compassionate assessment in higher education' have launched a Compassionate Assessment Network. The next session (26th March) explores the impact of AI on alternative compassionate learning environments. Sign up here: buff.ly/kSXPsyp

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Sally Brown @profsallybrown.bsky.social · Jun 20

#aheconference25 Alex Buckley if Heriot Watt University asks us to question our assessment assumptions at the end of the conference A hard ask at this stage of the conference but we are up for it!

Alex Buckley keynoting at the assessment in the higher education conference

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Dr Amanda Nuttall @dramandan.bsky.social · Jun 20

Enjoyed this very thought-provoking masterclass with @vikkihill.bsky.social about potential of pass/fail.assessment in HE. Lots to take away and think about for future practice!

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Vikki Hill @vikkihill.bsky.social · Jun 20

Thanks Amanda! Glad you enjoyed 😊

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Nurun Nahar @nurun.bsky.social · Jun 19

How do you embed UDL acorss a whole programme for an engaging and inclusive feedback environment. An insightful poster pitch from Dr Laura Costello with practical implementation tips and QR codes for relevant further resources 👏
#Aheconference25

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Sally Brown @profsallybrown.bsky.social · Jun 19

I’ll be giving away at the very end of #aheconference25 a hardback copy of 6th edition of The Lecturer’s Toolkit by @philrace.bsky.social and me with help from brilliant friends inc @kaysambell.bsky.social @suebecks.bsky.social @profpeter1.bsky.social @it-se.bsky.social &more Discount Code below

Banner with 20% discount code for the sixth edition of The Lecturer’s Toolkit

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@suebecks @suebecks.bsky.social · Jun 19

The Padlet contains the presentation slides and various guides including:
The Alchemists Grimoire of Assessment Transformation
The Alchemists Cupboard of Curiosities
Prompt Engineering 101 for Academics
#aheconference25

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Sally Brown @profsallybrown.bsky.social · Jun 19

#aheconference25 brilliant session led by @suebecks.bsky.social on the wizardry of AI: so many innovative ideas and lots of participation and conversation Sue will be putting the slides up on the padlet in a short while which will include the QR code Here’s a photo of participants linking to it !

Conference participants using their phones and iPads to link to the session Padlet

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Fal Rising @falrising.bsky.social · May 18

Over 100,000 people are marching through The Hague against Israel's war on Gaza.

Wearing red clothing and forming a line, they are demanding the government draw a red line in its stance against Israel.

It's the largest protest in the Netherlands in 20 years.

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Vikki Hill @vikkihill.bsky.social · Mar 23

Come and join us for Compassionate Alternative Assessment: a reason and a result of Equity in the GenAI Era with @elianaelkhoury.bsky.social , Tuesday 25 March 3-4pm GMT (Online)
Book through the #Compassionate #Assessment in HE Network page shorturl.at/rMWjT
@qaa.ac.uk @ncurrant.bsky.social

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Vikki Hill @vikkihill.bsky.social · Mar 23

Really pleased to have my article published in JPAAP. Colleagues who participated were incredibly generous and I learnt so much from them 🙏 . The process of combining arts-based methods with evaluation methodologies was fun to grapple with. 😊

jpaap.ac.uk/JPAAP/articl...

View of Listening with compassion: Using a logic chain and theory of change model to evaluate the use of podcasts to foster compassionate pedagogy within an academic enhancement programme

jpaap.ac.uk

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Vikki Hill @vikkihill.bsky.social · Mar 7

There are loads of folk to thank for supporting this work.

@ncurrant.bsky.social @kerrcastle.bsky.social @janmcarthur.bsky.social @profsambroadhead.bsky.social @katiemckee.bsky.social @annatroisi.bsky.social @elianaelkhoury.bsky.social @juusonieminen.bsky.social

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