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Take part in a professional development programme designed for education leaders, delivered by UCL HEDS (Arena)
Professor Kathleen Armour, Vice-Provost (Education and Student Experience) says:
““ The UCL Leading Change in Education programme is an investment in staff who teach or support learning.The aim is to ensure that colleagues in education leadership positions are equipped to lead positive change so that we can realise our ambition to deliver the very best education and career outcomes for our students. Previous alumni of the programme have gone on to have impact at local, Faculty and institutional level.”
Programme themes and goals
The goal of this programme is to develop UCL’s education leaders, giving them tools to implement high quality education within their faculties / professional service areas, and a peer network for support and inspiration
In 2024/25 we are asking for all projects to be focused on key elements of the UCL Education Strategy. Each participant should choose ONE of the following:
- Education change project to enhance feedback and assessment
- Education change project to enhance teaching quality and engagement with student voice
- Education change project to enhance the sense of community and belonging for students
With work on UCL strategy happening simultaneous to the programme, this provides a unique opportunity for colleagues to align their leadership projects and create real impact.
The programme
The programme will begin in January 2025 with up to 24 participants.
It will consist of:
- an initial two-day workshop, followed by four one-day workshops and a half-day final session in September/October. All workshops will take place face-to-face. Dates as follows:
- Workshop 1 – 29 & 30 January
- Workshop 2 – 26 March
- Workshop 3 – 23 April
- Workshop 4 – 10 June
- Workshop 5 – 17 July
- Workshop 6 – Sept/Oct tbc
- a study trip in May 2025 - all details tbc
- an individual change project which will have a substantial impact on education (the project does not have to be completed by the end of the programme)
Who should participate
The programme is aimed at colleagues in senior education roles (Grades 9 and 10) and those with a substantial education and/or student experience remit, for example Vice-Deans (Education), Faculty (Graduate) Tutors, BAME Awarding Gap Project Faculty Leads, Directors of Education / Student Services / Student Experience, Departmental (Postgraduate) Tutors, amongst others.
Professor Parama Chaudhury, PFHEA, Pro-Vice Provost (Education - Student Academic Experience), Co-Lead (Analysis and Evaluation) BAME Awarding Gap Project, Founding Director, Centre for Teaching and Learning Economics (CTaLE), Department of Economics says:
“"I started the LCiE programme at a very early stage in my tenure as SHS BAME Awarding Gap lead. Since then I have used the lessons learned - the use of Kotter's cycle, ideas and tweaks inspired by LCiE speakers, ways of working learned from peers on the LCiE programme - to influence the direction of the project, making significant tangible progress in achieving its goals, and incidentally, becoming one of the leads of the UCL-wide project. The LCiE programme has opened my eyes to new ways of working with and influencing others as well as learning from them"
Outcomes of the programme
After completing the programme participants will be able to:
- conduct analyses of complex educational issues at departmental and/or faculty level;
- design and implement practical solutions in response to current educational challenges that will benefit a wide range of students;
- draw on enhanced capabilities to organise and support the development of educators and innovation in teaching and learning;
- develop personal leadership attributes for a successful career in higher education leadership, and;
- contribute to and draw from an extensive network of education leaders, while shaping the future of education at UCL.
“The programme enables participants to carve out the headspace and time to reflect on educational leadership and their role in it, to be inspired by and learn from the journeys of education leaders who present on the programme, and to meaningfully network with other key education officers in UCL. A highlight of the programme was the study tour to other universities which offered an unparalleled opportunity to view up-close examples of innovation in education and successful change projects. The opportunity given to participants to run a change project parallel to the programme, and within the framework and support offered by it, will be of particular value to those who are new to educational leadership.”
Olga Thomas, Faculty Tutor and Vice-Dean Education, Faculty of Laws