

Over the course of one month, I attended four conferences: the Centre for Research in Education and Social Transformation (CREST) Conference, the Trent Institute for Learning and Teaching (TILT) Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, The International Education Studies Association (TIESA) Annual Conference, and the Horizons in Science, Technology, Engineering, and…

Universities often position their efforts around inclusion and closing awarding gaps as neutral and well-intentioned. Yet, despite years of reform, inequitable outcomes persist – especially…

Over more than 40 years of combined teaching, we have observed with fascination students maturing and developing into confident, skilled scientists. Surprisingly, we can better…

The Biosciences Scholarship Away Day brought together NTU colleagues from across the biosciences community to share ideas, develop scholarship projects, and explore approaches to pedagogic…

In April 2026, the Society for Experimental Biology hosted Practical and Inclusive Approaches to using Gen-AI in Higher Education at Nottingham Trent University. The two-day…

I’m Laurel, a teaching and scholarship academic at Nottingham Trent University, and I manage the Bioscience Scholarship blog for the Bioscience Scholarship Research Centre.