Our next event is a T&S Townhall on the 14th November featuring research from Prof Helen Williams from the University of Nottingham. You can sign up to join us here: www.aspirenetwork.uk/aspire-members

A great piece in @timeshighered.bsky.social on how to get started with #PedRes #SoTL www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-g...

Less than one week to go to submit an abstract for #BISA2026! The RIS editorial team would love to see all of you there.

Join us for the first ASPIRE SOTL circle on Friday!

Join us for our #SoTL Circle this Friday where we will be discussing Oro's article on active learning. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Sign up here: www.aspirenetwork.uk/copy-of-events

Very exciting to join the #BISAISA2025 conference in Newcastle last weekend! Thank you to the @aspirenetwork.bsky.social - especially Hillary Briffa and Chris Featherstone - for organising such a fun conversation on the challenges and opportunities of AI for teaching IR! Discussion to be continued!

*PSA EVENT* 'Giving Choice a Chance: Assessment optionality in #PoliticalStudies #education. #Teaching & Learning Network webinar with Jeremy Moulton @jeremymoulton.bsky.social @psateach.bsky.social 📆 3 December, 1:30 - 3pm ➡️ FREE and open to all

*PSA EVENT* 'Using Objects to Enhance Learning in #PoliticalScience #Education - #Teaching & Learning Network Webinar with William L Allen. 📆 Tuesday 13 January, 12:30pm, online ➡️

Our post in @hepi-news.bsky.social highlight the importance of teaching & scholarship work! @chrisfeathers.bsky.social @sudhirselvaraj.bsky.social @louisepears.bsky.social @jeremymoulton.bsky.social @annaplunkett.bsky.social

More new @aspirenetwork.bsky.social work! Check out this HEPI blog on the importance of the teaching track!

Our post in @hepi-news.bsky.social highlight the importance of teaching & scholarship work! @chrisfeathers.bsky.social @sudhirselvaraj.bsky.social @louisepears.bsky.social @jeremymoulton.bsky.social @annaplunkett.bsky.social

Great to see so many colleagues and friends at the @aspirenetwork.bsky.social online launch event today! Some great ideas shared and really exciting opportunities, if you're not a member already, Sign Up!

JOIN US TOMORROW!

🔊BONUS EPISODE of the Politics and Pedagogy podcast is out 'Student Voice: Student-led Exhibits', with @polisatleeds.bsky.social students Sean Wong and Chloe Simpson. Available on all platforms: rss.com/podcasts/pol...

This week on @alpsblog.bsky.social, we are publishing a short series on the role of pedagogical research in education-focused careers. My intro to the series is here: activelearningps.com/2025/09/02/t... @aspirenetwork.bsky.social

Please join us next week, 9th September, for our online event! Sign up here: www.aspirenetwork.uk/event-detail...

🔊REMINDER - September 9th we have our first online event, sign up and join us here www.aspirenetwork.uk/event-detail.... Have a lovely summer!

🔊REMINDER - September 9th we have our first online event, sign up and join us here www.aspirenetwork.uk/event-detail.... Have a lovely summer!

Great question from @profcathyelliott.bsky.social! What's your advice for getting an education focused role?

What are other social scientists doing in their research methods modules these days? I'm wanting to refresh things a bit. How do you find policy analysis? Am considering a session on this, in addition to decolonial & creative methods. I also run a session on digital methods which students often use

Unlike any sensible person, who keeps up with their blogging duties regularly and in a calm tone of voice, I have saved everything up for a long, generally exuberant, in places slightly moany post right at the end of the year. activelearningps.com/2025/07/14/w... @alpsblog.bsky.social

The work various brilliant colleagues are doing on education-focused careers @aspirenetwork.bsky.social and the delight of getting to speak at their launch activelearningps.com/2025/03/31/i...

New @alpsblog.bsky.social post from me: 'Reference lists: The good, the bad, and the ugly' I'm proposing an exercise for how we might teach students what sources are worth sourcing... activelearningps.com/2025/06/20/r...

Thank you to all that attended our roundtable at #BISA2025! It was a stimulating discussion on all things scholarship, practice and solidarity. @mybisa.bsky.social ( we even had our smallest member join the panel!)

Great to speak to the #BISA2025 Teaching and Learning cafe about the research project we are planning with the @aspirenetwork.bsky.social network, thanks @mybisa.bsky.social

We are at @mybisa.bsky.social hosting a panel on Pedagogical Scholarship! Join us tomorrow at 4:45 in Amsterdam Room, Europa Hotel #BISA2025 @louisepears.bsky.social @annaplunkett.bsky.social @mlebourdon.bsky.social

We are at @mybisa.bsky.social hosting a panel on Pedagogical Scholarship! Join us tomorrow at 4:45 in Amsterdam Room, Europa Hotel #BISA2025 @louisepears.bsky.social @annaplunkett.bsky.social @mlebourdon.bsky.social

A week since our launch! Have you joined us? www.aspirenetwork.uk

*PSA EVENT* Save the date for our Teaching & Learning Network Conference 📆 4 - 5 September @royalholloway.bsky.social‬. ➡️ Bringing together the teaching and learning community to share practices, ideas and experiences. ➡️

The members list on the ASPIRE website was updated this morning - do check out the brilliant group of academics that are already part of the network and their SoTL interests. Your future teaching & learning collaborations/ co-authors could be there! www.aspirenetwork.uk/aspire-members

Back in York after a great time in London for the launch of the @aspirenetwork.bsky.social. Feeling massively motivated now - and really looking forward to the work that will follow with the network in the coming weeks, months and years.

These jobs in Research Methods & in Comparative Politics are so-called "teaching track" jobs. But ultimately, the jobs will be as much about educational leadership as teaching. And there are many different routes within the "track", as yesterday's @aspirenetwork.bsky.social conference showed. 2/5

What a day! Thank you everyone who joined us for the launch of @aspirenetwork.bsky.social, big thank you to our key notes @profcathyelliott.bsky.social @teachpolitics.bsky.social and congrats to my fellow board members 🎉

We had a brilliant #aspirelaunch today, Teaching track academics from across the UK came together to discuss how we can work together and innovate in this space We began with a roundtable with the @aspirenetwork.bsky.social board, sharing our vision and the motivation behind the network

All topped off with a great drinks reception where we could all chat and get to know everyone in @aspirenetwork.bsky.social

I was very impressed by the community of teaching-track scholars at today's @aspirenetwork.bsky.social conference at KCL. Inspiring keynote by @teachpolitics.bsky.social (pictured). (I arrived too late to hear the amazing @profcathyelliott.bsky.social talk about the joy of the teaching track.)

We were really happy to be able to support our friends at @aspirenetwork.bsky.social today in their launch event! The network is for mutual support, recognition and advancement of teaching track academics in the discipline. @profcathyelliott.bsky.social here giving a keynote! @uclspp.bsky.social

@teachpolitics.bsky.social asking us to think about how teaching careers can be complicated and messy but we can play an active role to make our world better for each other and our students.

#aspirelaunch such a great group of people brought together to talk all things teaching track and the future of the network.

@profcathyelliott.bsky.social talk really set up the joy of the teaching track and the politics of recognizing and championing that joy #aspirelaunch

Explaining the what, why and wherefore of the #aspirelaunch

The joy of the teaching track with the ever joyful @profcathyelliott.bsky.social #aspirelaunch

Things are about to get going! Fantastic to see so many colleagues here #aspirelaunch

We are here! Excited to get going #ASPIRElaunch

Our launch event is in London today and we are buzzing. Two top notch speakers @profcathyelliott.bsky.social and @teachpolitics.bsky.social lots of networking and chances to talk scholarship. Also going to use #aspirelaunch for the event. Let us know if you're joining us.

On the train down to London for the @aspirenetwork.bsky.social launch today! Massively looking forward to the day ahead.

Heading down to London for the @aspirenetwork.bsky.social launch today. Excited to talk scholarship and careers in political and IR and hang with all my favourite folk

I have finished my first marking so am returning to scrolling after a self-imposed period in Bluesky exile. It's good timing as I have fun things to post about over the next few days - CPP-TPTN workshop tomorrow at @uclcpp.bsky.social & the launch of @aspirenetwork.bsky.social on Monday at King's!

🔊Thrilled to announce the ASPIRE Network and our upcoming launch event at King's on 9th June. ASPIRE is a UK-based network for teaching-track academic in Politics & IR. Learn more, register for the launch event, and join the network on our site: www.aspirenetwork.uk

We have just sent out a reminder to everyone who has signed-up to our launch event on Monday! We are massively looking forward to welcoming beginning the work of the ASPIRE network together. If you haven't gotten an email - there is still time to register: www.aspirenetwork.uk/event-detail...