CHERSNet: Promoting, supporting and inspiring educational enquiry
Online writing retreats
Are you writing a paper, STAR application or something else? Are you keen to enhance your productivity and writing focus? Subscribe to CHERSNet to join the network and access our regular online writing retreats, which provide a supportive environment fostering focus and accountability.
Welcome to CHERSNet, a network hosted by the Educational Development Unit that promotes educational inquiry and supports the development and dissemination of educational scholarship at Imperial. It is the successor to the Educational Enquiry Network (EDEN) and supports the work of the Centre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship (CHERS).
CHERSNet provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and resources, facilitates peer support and provides opportunities for reviewing and disseminating draft presentations and publications. Members are invited to attend and present their work at face-to-face or online events which take place every few months.
To join our growing network, subscribe to CHERSNET.
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Dr Luke McCrone is a Research Associate at the Centre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship. As an Imperial graduate, Luke hopes to support more educational research and inquiry across the institution, including via the growth of CHERSNet.
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Sheri Djafer is the Communication and Research Co-ordinator at the Centre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship. As part of her role, she supports with the administration of CHERSNet and with planning the events for the network.
CHERSNet exists for the benefit of its members and endeavours to engage with those involved about the format and features that are of most value. Whilst members are responsible for their own inquiry and dissemination activities, they have access to CHERSNet coordinators, EDU tutors and peers who can offer guidance at meetings to support the improvement, dissemination and publication of their research.
Being a part of CHERSNet means:
- engaging with educational inquiry
- reading educational literature and attending relevant conferences
- being critical of inquiry methods and empirical findings
- orally disseminating research both within and beyond Imperial, for example, in Departmental, Faculty and University events or in external conferences
- positioning studies more accurately within higher or medical education concerning practice, theory and methodology
- identifying suitable peer-reviewed journals (either discipline-specific or generic) for publishing findings.
Interested in presenting at an upcoming event? Fill out this quick survey with your proposed title and bio. Presentations are usually 30 minutes, with 10 minutes for Q&A. Events are held in-person or online and will be recorded with speaker permission.
2024 events
Dr Jessica Butler, Centre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship
Session title: There’s something to be said for being a bit unusual": Understanding normative institutional culture through self-conscious appropriations of outsiderhood by teaching staff in a UK STEMMB university
Dr Sue Sing and Dr Tiffany Chiu, Centre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship
Session title: It’s not how smart you are. It’s not how hard you work. It’s about the strategy you use: The Learning Well Project
Ms Tatiana Codreanu
Session title: Leveraging Microsoft Copilot and Fade In to build skills in prompt generation, lexicon acquisition and imagery creation
Iria Gonzalez-Becerra, Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication - Central Faculty
Session title: The three Rs of Assessment for Engagement: Changing attitudes, changing outcomes
2023 events
Dr Richard Bale, Dr Monika Pazio Rossiter (with Roisin Gwyon, PhD student) Centre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship
Session title: Intercultural and signature feedback literacies
Ms Moira Sarsfield, Faculty of Natural Sciences EdTech Lab
Session title: Exploring multimode assessment feedback using a design-based research (DBR) approach
2022 events
Heather Hanna, Department of Infectious Disease, Faculty of Medicine
Session title: Do I say it best when I say nothing at all? The lived experience of teaching and learning of introvert students undertaking postgraduate courses in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College
Dr Tiffany Chiu and Dr Orla Murray, Centre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship
SIDUS (Supporting the Identity Development of Underrepresented Students) project
