Each year the LSE HE Blog Fellowship programme offers scholars from across the world and across the disciplines the opportunity to draw attention to important issues in higher education from diverse perspectives. They do this through creating and curating content on topics relating to their expertise and special interests.
The 2025 Fellowship
Applications are now open for the 2025 LSE HE Blog Fellowship. More details …
The 2024 LSE HE Blog Fellows
Maha Bali
Maha is Professor of Practice, Center for Learning and Teaching, American University in Cairo, Egypt, and Co-facilitator of Equity Unbound
Theme: Critical issues in AI in education: a view from Egypt
- Where are the crescents in AI?
- When it comes to AI, is transparency enough?
- Five questions to ask before adopting a new technology
Sam Illingworth
Sam is a Professor in the Department of Learning and Teaching Enhancement at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland
Theme: Using poetry to foster engagement and belonging in higher education
- Rhyme and reason: poetry’s power as a pedagogical tool
- Poetry in academia: a symposium of voices
- Reflecting on the poetic voices of higher education
- Turn data into poetry
Amy Paterson
Amy is a South African medical doctor and PhD/DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, UK
Theme: Medical education for a sustainable and skilled African health workforce
- What rankings ignore about African-based medical training
- Who is at the operating table?
- Taking health equity into our own hands
- Simulation-based medical education in the era of AI: a curated reading list
Richard Watermeyer
Richard is Professor of Higher Education and Co-Director of the Centre for Higher Education Transformations (CHET) at the University of Bristol, UK
Theme: Leadership and management culture and policies in HE and the implications for decision-making
- Fewer leaders, more leadership
- Is there a crisis in the professoriate?
- Change the model, not the sticking plaster
- Let’s look outside academia for university leaders
Mikołaj Szafrański
Mikołaj is a PhD student in LSE Law School, UK, and LSE Students’ Union Postgraduate Research Officer
Theme: The political economy of student voice
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