Excellent 2-days of discussion on teaching & learning. Enjoyed sharing my experiences of leadership and (hopefully) demystifying the role of a PVC Education. Thank you to @amillican1 Lewis Mates & everyone at Durham for hosting.

Delighted to have been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and honoured to join other fellows in contributing to the academy's work in promoting, developing and celebrating teaching, research and engagement in the social sciences.

Members, make sure to check your inboxes for yesterday's newsletter about PSA Teaching and Learning Network and Learning Network panels and roundtables at #PSA25 👀 You can also find out more about this on the TLN webpages here: psa.ac.uk/specialist-gro…

👀There is a CfP out from the Political Studies Association journal Politics for teaching and learning articles! It's a rolling deadline. Please see the full call on our website: psa.ac.uk/specialist-gro…

Just listening to HoC discussion on HE. Worth remembering Graham Gibb's point that "the number of class contact hours has very little to do with educational quality, independently of what happens in those hours" advance-he.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/…

Looking forward to taking up my duties as Vice Chair of the Political Studies Association and working with trustees and the wider membership to promote excellence in the teaching and research of politics. psa.ac.uk/psa/news/polit…

Delighted to announce that I will be joining University of Hull as PVC Education in March.

Important new report on Politics and IR provision in UK HE. Looking forward to attending the launch event tonight.

PSA Prize nominations close tomorow - why not nominate someone (or put yourself forward)? Prizes research, teaching and overall contribution at a range of career stages. psa.ac.uk/academic-prizes

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Very proud to have co-led Kingston University Future Skills programme over the past couple of years. Our students talk passionately about the impact on their learning. Great to see them taking the message to Westminster.

You can read the full Westminster Hall debate on Future Skill here - hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025-0…

Are you a Political Studies Association member? Have you voted yet? Excellent choice of candidates in our trustee elections.

New paper just published with ⁦Professor Rose Gann, PFHEA⁩ ⁦Professor Victoria Honeyman⁩ & Alasdair Blair on our work on the ⁦QAA⁩ Politics and IR subject benchmark link.springer.com/article/10.105…

Analysis estimates the net impact of government policies will be a £1.4 BILLION reduction in funding to higher education providers in England in 2025–26. This doesn't include loss of international student fee income or real-terms erosion of tuition fees👇 loom.ly/pKpm0CI

Very useful blog post from OfS on how it is working with the sector to develop TEF and quality assessment.

*PSA EVENT* 🚨 Programme online🚨for our Teaching & Learning Network Conference, Bringing together the teaching & learning community to share practices, ideas and experiences 📆 4 - 5 September Royal Holloway University Book online buff.ly/SVQsK8w

At Royal Holloway for the Political Studies Association Teaching & Learning conference. RHU hosted the first of these in 2008 - so great to be back here.

Excellent Norton lecture last night by Simon Lee exploring England as a political entity, ranging through issues of political history, identity, and economy. Great turnout from our Politics at Hull students.

Great to be at the House of Lords yesterday for the launch of Research Plus, bringing together Hull and nine other research intensive universities committed to making a difference through education, research, and knowledge exchange.