ALDinHE communications

Following ALDinHE’s Annual General Meeting held on 12 June 2025, we are delighted to officially welcome our newly ratified Senior Leadership Team, four new Steering Group members without portfolio and a new Working Group Lead. Our new members will bring fresh thinking, a wealth of experience, and a genuine passion for Learning Development and ALDinHE’s values. We’re very excited about what they will bring to the strategic direction of the association. You can read about all members of the Steering Group and their profiles, on our website. We congratulate and welcome: New ALDinHE Leadership Team Kate Coulson as ChairMaddy Mossman as […]

Making cases for the role of learning development/advising in changing educational landscapes ICALLD’s symposium around the clock aims to create opportunities to explore this theme with colleagues from across the world. We invite colleagues to submit proposals for sessions that help us do this. This means we are not looking for presenters who share ready-made answers! We welcome presenters who are willing and able to scaffold a discussion and orchestrate conversation around one of the two sub-themes and then share the outcomes of this discussion via the ICALLD blog. Sub-theme 1: Providing evidence of the impacts of learning development/advising Sub-theme […]

This writing retreat is free. Online in MS Teams: Wednesday 18 December 2024 9.30am – 12.30pm. Book via the Events Calendar on the ALDinHE website. The Research and Scholarship Development Working Group would like to welcome you to an online Research & Scholarship Writing Retreat. Christmas / Holiday jumpers and other festive cheer are an optional but welcome extra! This time of year is ideal to get the writing juices flowing, so why not come along and enjoy some time for writing. It is often so easy to not complete the important tasks and instead focus on the urgent tasks. […]

Tom Burns (1959 – 23 October 2024) It is with great sadness we announce that our colleague, friend and all-round lovely person Tom Burns, has passed away. Tom was an extraordinary man who lived an extraordinary life. His life was made extraordinary by circumstances and by dint of his own personality and spirit – Tom was a very likeable person with a wonderful sense of humour and had a spirit of adventure. He was an inspirational figure and pioneer in the evolution of Learning Development. He had a tremendous ability to draw on personal experience to tell stories that engaged […]

ALDinHE’s funding call is now open. The deadline for applications is 19th July 2024. We have £5,000 available in funding, with a maximum of £1,000 per project, and this opportunity is open to any individual or group whose principal investigator works at a member institution. Each year ALDinHE allocates funding for innovative research projects that focus on specific aspects of Learning Development. Call for proposals 2024-2025 We are looking to fund a number of small-scale research projects, which aim to help promote Learning Development as a scholarly activity. While we continue to invite a broad range of proposals that engage with learning development […]

Dear Colleagues, Notice is hereby given of the Annual General Meeting of the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education, to be held online at 16:00 on Thursday 6 June 2024. Further details about the AGM are available on the AGM page of the ALDinHE website. The online link will be shared closer to the date and will also be available via the ALDcon24 programme.  This year, we are trialling a new format for the AGM to better showcase the work of ALDinHE, share new initiatives and community voices. We will also introduce new Steering Group members. In the lead up to […]

ALDinHE CPD Framework Dr Matt Crofts, Sam Thomas and Kate Coulson are leading a CPD project for ALDinHE to ensure that members have access to high quality CPD resources, events and opportunities to develop the community’s expertise. Please review the proposed ALDinHE CPD framework and provide feedback by Friday 24 May 2024. #Take5 #102 Developing and creating a professional development framework for Learning Developers #Take5 #102 blog is brought to you by Dr Matt Crofts and Kate Coulson. As Learning Developers with a passion for learning and teaching, they are leading a CPD project for ALDinHE to ensure that members […]

Dear colleagues, We are seeking offers to undertake a blind peer-review of the following submissions to the JLDHE (Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education). If you would like to undertake a review of any of these articles, please email the designated contact editor(s) below (not the whole list), including a brief description of your interest in the topic, your relevant qualifications, expertise and/or experience in relation to the submission (100-200 words max). This might include your knowledge of the subject and/or your experience acting as a peer reviewer for academic papers or as an author or researcher in the field. Please also join […]

ICALLD is delighted to announce the 8th international Symposium over Time! Over two days, rolling around the clock, participants from the member associations will take turns in presenting some of their current work. The presentations are arranged to allow members of every association to listen to all presentations from other time zones without staying up through the night, so we hope members will welcome the opportunity to be inspired by colleagues across the globe. The papers align with one or more of the following themes: With the exception of 2 AALL talks, all sessions are delivered twice to be accessible […]

Dear Colleagues,  It’s that time of year again… registration for #ALDcon24 is now open! The full conference programme and Keynote Speakers are available to view, along with our social programme.  Early bird registration closes on 26th April 2024 and registration closes on 24th May 2024. The fee waiver scheme for those whose institutions will not fund the cost of a conference place is now open on an application-only basis, and will close on 12th April 2024. If you have any questions about the conference, please contact the ALDinHE administrator, Katharine Jewitt, at admin@aldinhe.ac.uk We are looking forward to seeing many of you online and in Glasgow this June! For conference updates, networking, making arrangements for social […]