Zoë Allman, De Montfort University In the week recognising World Mental Health Day 2023, this article highlights an example of collaboration to enhance mental wellbeing, as presented at the ANTF Symposium 2023. Between April 2021-May 2022 a collaborative team of seven Universities and a students’ union sought to improve understanding of EMW and develop a… Continue reading Cross-sector collaboration to enhance embedding mental wellbeing
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Promoting friendships in first-year university students: creating a community
Buddy Penfold; Laurie Truscott; Nicholas Rodgers from De Montfort University We are academics from De Montfort University, in the School of Fashion and Textiles, teaching studio based, practical creative subjects. The students learn through active learning, constructivism pedagogy (Hamer and Van Rossum, 2010) and working as a community of practice (Wenger, 2010). Context for this… Continue reading Promoting friendships in first-year university students: creating a community
Community, connectedness, collaboration: Reflections on being authentically ‘WISER’ at the ANTF2023 symposium
Julie Hulme (NTF 2016) is the Deputy Chair of the Committee for the Association of National Teaching Fellows, and Professor of Psychology Education at Nottingham Trent University On 20th and 21st April 2023, the Association of National Teaching Fellows (ANTF) met in person for our first annual symposium since the pandemic at De Montfort University… Continue reading Community, connectedness, collaboration: Reflections on being authentically ‘WISER’ at the ANTF2023 symposium