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Campus Talks by Times Higher Education

Campus by Times Higher Education

100 episodes

Campus Talks is a fortnightly podcast from Times Higher Education. We talk to academics and administrators at universities around the world to share advice, insights and solutions addressing the big questions facing higher education today. Gather academic career advice and tips to improve your teaching, research practices, writing and public engagement work, alongside discussions on the most pressing issues in global HE.

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  1. Campus: The benefits of citizen science and community-engaged research

    · 50 min · Episode 227

    Citizen science, in which researchers work alongside members of the public to collect or analyse data, brings multiple benefits, extending the capabilities of research teams and aiding public engagement. But there are…

  2. Campus: Social artist Helen Storey on working on the boundary of fashion and science

    · 45 min · Episode 226

    For this episode, we talk to British social artist, designer and researcher Helen Storey about a career that has taken her from runways to scientific collaborations to refugee camps in the Middle East and Africa.…

  3. Campus: What Indigenous knowledge brings to higher education

    · 1 h 12 min · Episode 225

    Indigenous knowledge has historically been marginalised or actively excluded from higher education. However, universities around the world are now recognising that First Nations’ wisdom and culture can enrich education…

  4. Campus: What makes an award winning academic, university or project?

    · 51 min · Episode 224

    Learn from the winners in three very different THE Award categories how they developed the strategies and projects that saw them take home a trophy in 2023 – and how these have evolved in the 12 months since. We speak…

  5. Campus: Educating our way out of the climate crisis

    · 48 min · Episode 223

    With world leaders gathered in Azerbaijan for the COP29 climate change summit, this week’s podcast focuses on universities’ role in advancing sustainability and reducing carbon emissions. As centres of teaching,…

  6. Campus: Two vice-chancellors on maintaining quality and financial stability within a university

    · 56 min · Episode 222

    Universities are public service organisations, educating and researching for the broader societal good. Yet in many countries, the UK and Australia among them, public funding for these institutions has been stripped…

  7. Campus: How can universities ensure students feel safe and supported?

    · 1 h 02 min · Episode 221

    For students to thrive within a higher education setting, they need to feel safe and supported. Universities’ duty of care extends from making students feel welcome and valued to protecting them from serious harm. On…

  8. Campus: Knowledge exchange and data management as drivers of research and innovation

    · 1 h 01 min · Episode 220

    What underpins effective research, knowledge generation and innovation? In this podcast, we hear a world-leading biomedical scientist discuss what constitutes effective knowledge exchange and supports translational…

  9. Campus: Supporting student success at all stages of the university journey

    · 32 min · Episode 219

    For this episode of the Campus podcast, we talk to Eunice Simmons, who has been vice-chancellor of the University of Chester since 2020, about what works when it comes to widening participation in higher education and…

  10. Campus: What constitutes good teaching in higher education?

    · 50 min · Episode 218

    Effective teaching sits at the heart of higher education’s mission to advance learning and discovery. But what are the key components which make up top quality instruction? And how can these be achieved in different…

  11. Campus: How technology is reshaping the 21st-century university campus

    · 43 min · Episode 217

    What is an intelligent campus? How is technology blurring, or extending, the borders of the modern university? And how do you build belonging when your students could be spread across the globe? In this episode of the…

  12. Campus: University success stories in managing AI and building digital capacity

    · 49 min · Episode 216

    In this episode, we sit down with two panellists from Times Higher Education’s Digital Universities Asia 2024 event to talk to them in more detail about how their institutions have embraced advancing digital…

  13. Campus: How to prepare for university leadership

    · 33 min · Episode 215

    This episode of the Campus podcast comes at a time when many UK universities are changing leaders. A total of 30 institutions have either had a new leader start or have begun the process of finding a replacement in…

  14. Campus: Higher education leaders on their priorities for the new UK government

    · 1 h 06 min · Episode 214

    With frozen tuition fees, falling international student enrolment and the very real possibility of a university going bankrupt, the UK’s new Labour government has inherited a sector in crisis. The need for fast action…

  15. Campus: Cross-cultural communication in the international classroom

    · 48 min · Episode 213

    One way to future-proof students in our globalised world is to improve their cross-cultural communication skills. With students and academics more mobile than ever, the ability to reach across divides – be they…

  16. Campus: What does the UK election mean for higher education?

    · 51 min · Episode 212

    Will the UK general election offer a ray of hope for the beleaguered university sector? On this episode of the Times Higher Education podcast, two policy experts give their take on opportunities that 4 July may bring…

  17. Campus: Bringing an outsider’s eye to primary sources

    · 43 min · Episode 211

    For this episode of the Times Higher Education podcast, we talk to award-winning author, cultural historian and literary critic Alexandra Harris about the research and writing practices behind her new book, The Rising…

  18. Campus: How to lead a university from the front

    · 34 min · Episode 210

    Katie Normington, vice-chancellor and CEO of De Montfort University, has proved to be adept at both leading by example and change management. Not only did she join the Leicester institution during Covid amid the…

  19. Campus: The future of XR and immersive learning

    · 34 min · Episode 209

    Imagine a learning environment where an AI professor fields infinite student questions, where business students practise difficult conversations with an avatar that models an array of personas and reactions, where…

  20. Campus interview: Mark Thompson, professor of digital economy at the University of Exeter

    · 34 min · Episode 208

    For this episode of the Times Higher Education podcast, we talk with an academic, practitioner and policy commentator who uses phrases such as “burning platform” to describe the state of universities’ digital…

  21. Campus: Human connection and the student experience

    · 48 min · Episode 207

    What difference does human connection make to student success? Does it matter if students come to in-person lectures? And what if students turn to AI for help with academic tasks rather than asking libraries or someone…

  22. Campus: What is open access?

    · 48 min · Episode 206

    In this episode of the Times Higher Education podcast, we talk to two experts – one in the US and one in the UK – about open access, the global movement that aims to make research outputs available online immediately…

  23. International Women's Day Campus interview: Sian Beilock, president, Dartmouth

    · 22 min · Episode 203

    In this episode we discuss a rare creature: the female higher education leader. Indeed, according to the American Council on Education’s most recent American College President Study, women remain outnumbered by men in…

  24. Campus bonus episode: An interview with Kathryn Sikkink of Harvard Kennedy School

    · 24 min · Episode 205

    In this bonus episode of the THE podcast, we continue the theme of universities’ role in fostering civic engagement with an interview with renowned human rights scholar and award-winning author Kathryn Sikkink.…

  25. Campus: How to turn university students into engaged citizens

    · 1 h 06 min · Episode 204

    In 2024, more people than ever in history will be going to the polls to vote in elections in more than 80 countries, including the US and the UK. As pillars of democratic societies, universities and colleges are…

  26. Campus interview: James Purnell, president and vice-chancellor of the University of the Arts London

    · 25 min · Episode 202

    James Purnell has been the president and vice-chancellor of the University of the Arts London since 2021. He joined UAL after a career that included key positions at the BBC (as director of strategy and digital, and…

  27. Campus: Microcredentials are knocking. Will higher education answer?

    · 1 h 03 min · Episode 201

    From employers to policy makers, universities and their students, everyone agrees that alternative credentials are a good thing for the economy and for expanding access to higher education. But it’s one thing to think…

  28. Campus interview: Mike Ibba from Chapman University on mentorship and the future of US science

    · 38 min · Episode 200

    January is a month of change and new beginnings and our guest for this episode speaks about his experience of both, in terms of his career, the relationship between the arts and sciences and the state of US science.…

  29. Campus: How to do public engagement

    · 42 min · Episode 199

    In the lead-up to the Times Higher Education Awards 2023, for this episode, we talk to two winners from last year, both of whom share their advice, insights and best practice for engaging the public. King’s College…

  30. Campus interview: Laura Allen from Trinity University on connecting student well-being to the natural world

    · 33 min · Episode 198

    Can spending time in natural environments support students’ well-being? The is the question that an interdisciplinary team of researchers and educators at Trinity University in San Antonio Texas wanted to answer.…

  31. Campus: What to do when principles of free speech are tested

    · 1 h 02 min · Episode 197

    Academic freedom and free speech are the defining values of higher education institutions. But sticking to those principles becomes very difficult when polarising political events divide communities on and off campus.…

  32. Campus: Unlocking people power through citizen science

    · 1 h 12 min · Episode 196

    Find out how engaging non-academics in research can uncover and disperse new knowledge and ways of thinking that could help shape solutions to seemingly intractable problems

  33. Campus: How to be a good mentor and mentee

    · 31 min · Episode 195

    For this episode of the podcast we handed the mic over to the Campus network to get their top tips on how to be a good mentor and mentee. These relationships can make or break academic careers so getting them right is…

  34. Campus interview: Ngiare Brown, chancellor, James Cook University

    · 40 min · Episode 194

    Ngiare Brown is the first female and the first indigenous chancellor of James Cook University. She’s joined the institution at a time when efforts to indigenise Australian higher education are taking root, with the…

  35. Campus interview: Eve Riskin, dean of undergraduate education, Stevens Institute of Technology

    · 32 min · Episode 193

    Eve Riskin is on a mission to broaden the definition of diversity. The newly appointed dean of undergraduate education at Stevens Institute of Technology is determined to make sure they are "student ready" in order to…

  36. Campus: The AI university is coming

    · 38 min · Episode 192

    In an episode last year with the chief scientist at Georgia Tech’s Center for 21st Century Universities Ashok Goel, we asked: Is AI in higher education worth the hype? It turns out that, yes, it is. Ashok is back to…

  37. Campus: Universities aren’t too small to lead the climate crisis fight

    · 1 h 08 min · Episode 191

    This episode of the Campus podcast comes as record temperatures beat down through the northern hemisphere summer, with wildfires engulfing Greece and Spain, and deadly floods engulf India. With the UK recently…

  38. Campus interview: Jonathan Koppell, president, Montclair State

    · 44 min · Episode 190

    Watch the video recording of this podcast on Campus Findings from a recent Gallup survey of Americans found that only 36 per cent have a "great deal" or "quite a lot of" confidence in higher education. That’s about 20…

  39. Campus: How to use generative AI in your teaching and research

    · 1 h 01 min · Episode 189

    In this episode of the Campus podcast, we’re embarking on a journey into a realm of the unknown. A world full of possibilities and creative opportunities but not without risks and ethical quandaries. Three intrepid…

  40. Campus interview: David Latchman, vice-chancellor Birkbeck, University of London

    · 28 min · Episode 188

    Will the promise of lifelong learning - to extend access to higher education to more people while at the same time creating a highly skilled and relevant workforce - ever be realised? On the whole, university systems…

  41. Campus: When pop culture meets academia

    · 49 min · Episode 185

    In this episode of the Campus podcast, Michael Dennin, a professor of physics and astronomy in the School of Physical Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, talks about using superheroes (and zombies) to…

  42. Campus: How the university library is an agent of change

    · 57 min · Episode 187

    On this episode we’re talking about every campus' connector, collector and collaborator – the university library. Often overlooked, university libraries are critical to the teaching and research missions of…

  43. Campus interview: Dame Madeleine Atkins, president of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge

    · 34 min · Episode 186

    A veteran leader in English higher education, dame Madeline Atkins is the former CEO of the Higher Education Funding Council in England and is the current president of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. In this Campus…

  44. Campus interview: Nicholas Dirks, president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences

    · 47 min · Episode 184

    Dr. Nicholas Dirks is a higher education leader, an historian, the former chancellor at the University of California, Berkeley and the current president and CEO of the New York Academic of Sciences. In this interview…

  45. Campus: How to deal with the legacy of empire in higher education

    · 47 min · Episode 183

    Decolonisation has become a lightning rod for critics who accuse universities and colleges of being full of liberal ideologues, with a number of pundits up in arms about efforts to decolonise reading lists and the…

  46. Campus: How to navigate higher education as a woman of colour

    · 1 h 27 min · Episode 182

    For international women's day, we spoke with two academics of colour about their experiences of being minority women in academia. Henrika McCoy is the Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Fellow in Services to Children and…

  47. THE Campus: Academia and activism

    · 1 h 15 min · Episode 181

    Academia and activism might seem like a natural pair. Both require grit, persistence and a passionate commitment to a cause. However doing social justice work is often at the sacrifice of other tasks that count towards…

  48. THE Campus: Career advice, LGBTQ+ in the academy and public speaking tips

    · 59 min · Episode 180

    A career in academia comes with a lot of components – some good and some not so good. In this episode we’re talking about topics that might seem like their on the periphery of the core elements of an academic career,…

  49. THE Campus: What makes a good higher education leader?

    · 43 min · Episode 179

    Universities have been around for a millennium, however their modern iteration - and the people who lead them - are somewhat different to their medieval European ancestors. Over the centuries, institutions have dealt…

  50. THE Campus: An interview with Ruth Simmons, president of Prairie View A&M

    · 38 min · Episode 178

    Ruth Simmons was the first African American president of Brown University which she led for 11 years. Before that she was president at Smith College where she set up the first engineering programme at a women’s…

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