ALDinHE communications

June 20, 2025 / 1 minute of reading Following ALDinHE’s Annual General Meeting held on 30 April 2026, we are delighted to officially welcome our newly ratified Chairs, two new Steering Group members without portfolio and three new Working Group Leads. 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 Chair and Deputy Chair […]

2026 Award presented to Sandra Sinfield SF‑ALDinHE, SFHEA  It is a real privilege, on behalf of ALDinHE, to present the Lifetime Achievement Award to Sandra Sinfield, SF‑ALDinHE, SFHEA.  This award recognises not just long service or an impressive list of roles and outputs, although Sandra has plenty of those, but a lifetime of values‑led practice, impact, generosity, and passion that has helped shape learning development as a field, a community, and a movement.  Sandra is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Professional and Educational Development at London Metropolitan University; a co‑author of Teaching, Learning and Study Skills: A Guide for Tutors and Essential Study Skills: The Complete Guide to Success at […]

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 […]