Parallel Sessions 2 (14.10)
This year's conference has two blocks of parallel sessions delivered by colleagues from around the University. There are eight parallel sessions to choose from in each block. Some of these are a single 45 minute workshop, others contain three shorter presentations with a coherent theme.
B1 Integrating Gamification into Teaching Practice
Discover how gamification can inspire innovative teaching across allied health education. This interactive session lets you experience game‑based learning first‑hand, reflect on its impact, and design your own adaptable activity. Join us to explore evidence‑informed, accessible, engaging strategies that enhance participation, motivation, and meaningful learning in diverse teaching contexts.
B2 A Student-Supported Voice Care Workshop to Enhance Academic Wellbeing and Teaching Practice
Do you struggle with vocal fatigue? Does your voice tire towards the end of the day/week? Do you experience throat discomfort after teaching or meetings?
Join our student-supported workshop to learn practical, evidence-based strategies to protect your voice, reduce strain, and maintain vocal stamina throughout your working day.
B3 Increasing student criticality – dialogic teaching
Are you struggling to get your students talking in your sessions? When they do talk, do they seem to struggle with forming meaningful answers? If you'd like to learn how to overcome some of these challenges, then this workshop will give you some tangible strategies to apply.
B4 “I’m Nosey”: Mapping Innovation Across Disciplines Through Curiosity, Translation and Shared Practice
Innovation isn’t always about something new. In this interactive workshop, curiosity becomes a method as colleagues map how routine teaching practices in one discipline can function as innovation in another. Participants leave with a practical, transferable activity to surface hidden expertise and inspire new approaches in their own context.
B5 NSS Bingo: Predicting, Preventing, and Positively Shaping Student Feedback
Join us for a lively, interactive workshop of NSS Bingo. We'll explore common student feedback themes and participants will predict their likely NSS comments, uncover underlying issues, and identify evidence‑informed, proactive strategies to prevent recurring concerns. You'll leave the session with a practical action plan to enhance student experience and satisfaction
B6 Seeing Competency Clearly – How Optometry leveraged Competency Based Education in Brightspace
This interactive workshop takes a high-level look at the pedagogy of Competency Based Education (CBE), introduces the Standards tool in Brightspace that enables integration of CBE into your module, and showcases a practical example of these features in action. You’ll also consider how you might embed this technology within your own teaching practice.
B7 Teaching Practice, Care & Professional Judgement
Easy to Use Compassionate and Cooperative Teaching & Learning Techniques
This workshop introduces the pedagogy of compassion and examines how dysfunctional discussion dynamics hinder learning. Participants will practise CLIPs techniques to foster equitable participation, explore examples from Huddersfield colleagues, and consider applications within their own teaching, including co‑creating behavioural norms that support inclusive, respectful, and effective classroom dialogue.
Supporting students to use AI critically, creatively and ethically in learning
A practical session exploring simple ways to help students use AI confidently and appropriately. Try out short activities, discuss real examples, and leave with ideas for your own teaching or assessment design.
Making Critical Thinking a Daily Habit: A Studio Model for Transformative Learning
Discover a simple, innovative model for making critical thinking a daily habit. This session introduces weekly “Critical Thinking Studios” that use real‑world artefacts and structured thinking lenses to build students’ analytical confidence. Attendees leave with practical, ready‑to‑use tools they can embed immediately in any discipline.
B8 Designing for Learning
Linking theory to practice – supporting students with a key critical skill
Explore activities and approaches that can support students in making clear, confident links between theory and practice. Share knowledge and ideas from a range of disciplines to identify and develop best practice in modelling and teaching this key critical thinking skill.
Advancing and Progressing Diversity in Podiatry Education Through Collaborative Curriculum Review
We present a story of collaboration between the student body and podiatry academics in reviewing teaching materials to ensure students are exposed to the varied way in which pathologies present across different skin colours. This presentation highlights our experience of co-designing an audit to review and modernise materials.
Lights, Camera, Attributes! Creating scalable video resources to add value to professional development modules
The Huddersfield Graduate Attributes video library is a cross-university initiative between the School of Business, Education and Law, Careers and Employability Service and Distance Learning. Find out how these high-quality, scalable resources were produced with staff, students, alumni and employers, and are being tailored to different modules and courses across the University.