Dear Learning Developers,
I'm currently working on a project in Researcher Development, the kind
of provision that was initiated under the Roberts agenda to PhD
students. In previous institutions I've worked at, this provision was
entirely separate from Learning Development, often a different team
working in Staff Development rather than, for example, Student Services
or Information Services. I'm realising that although to me the RD work
is very similar (I used to advise PhD students frequently as a Learning
Developer after all) I'm operating with a slightly different set of LD
values and principles to my RD colleagues (embedding and scaffolding,
for example, which are so central to what we do as LDers, seem to be new
to this community).
I wondered to what extent Learning Developers and Researcher Developers
do in fact represent different communities. It's clear why that might be
- the funding streams and therefore motivating factors and institutional
structures for setting up these services are different, but if they are
so separate, what a shame that there is less communication given the
similarity of the work!
Are there any Researcher Developers on LDHEN? How do you see your
professional community? Or are they all over on the
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oughtn't we to try and foster some interprofessional conversations? Do
you LDers work at all with your RD colleagues?
best wishes,
Helen
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Research Associate (Digital Transferable Skills and Employability)
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
University of Cambridge
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/1137/dr-helen-webster.htmDr Helen Webster
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