\n \n \n | \n 09:30 - 09:40 \n | \n
\n
SRHE welcome and hou
sekeeping \n
\n Introduction and overview of the session by Dr
Tanya Hathaway<
/p>\n | \n
\n \n | \n 09:40 - 10:30 \n | \n
\n Prof Stephen Marshall: Resilience and learning
in the face of Black and Gray Swans: Academic deve
lopment and capability building through crisis in
New Zealand
\n \n Prof Anatoly V. Oleksiyenko:
Teaching Leader
ship and Learning Through Crises and Supercomplexi
ty in Glonacal Higher Education: A case study from
Hong Kong \
n \n Including Q&A \n | \n
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10:30 -10.35
\n \n \n <
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\n \n | \n 10:35 - 11:25 \n | \n \n Dr Lee Mackenzie & Dr Deisy Alexandra Becer
ra Martel: Addressing inequality in higher education
during a time of crisis: A view from the Global S
outh \n \n
Prof Susan Rowland: "Dis
tributed" leadership in time of crisis \n \n Dr Basse
m Kandil &Prof Patricia Rached:<
span style="font-size:11pt\;"> Addressing Teaching
and Learning Challenges: The case study of a Leban
ese university<
/p>\n \n Dr Kibbie Naidoo (incorporating the wor
k of Dr Hemali Joshi): Leading Learning and Learning
to Lead in Times of Crisis: A case study from a S
outh African University \n \n Dr Kiruthika Ragupathi & Dr Ad
rian Lee: Leading academic development in times of u
ncertainty and crisis in Singapore \n \n Snap presentations
followed by 20 minutes panel discussion \n | \n \n
\n | \n
11:2
5 - 11:30 \n
| \n \n Break
\n | \n
\n
\n | \n 11:30 - 12:
20 \n \n | \n Prof Kasturi Behari-Lea
k:
Leaderful leadership as a praxis of care: A Case
Study from South Africa \n \n Prof Alison Cook-Sather: When Cr
ises Catalyse the Expansion of Equity-focused Stud
ent-Staff Pedagogical Partnership: A North America
n Perspective\n \n Including Q&A \n | \n
\n \n
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12.20 - 12.30
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\n \n
\n \n \n \n Speaker bios
\n \n Pr
ofessor Stephen Marshall<
span style="font-size:11pt\;"> (PFHEA) is Director at the Victoria Univ
ersity of Wellington Centre for Academic Developme
nt. Stephen leads Victoria University Digital Visi
on and Strategy for Learning and Teaching initiati
ves and researches in the areas of organisational
change in higher education\, quality\, benchmarkin
g\, plagiarism and academic integrity\, intellectu
al property\, and the development of educational p
olicy and strategy supporting and encouraging the
effective use of technology. He is a long-serving
editor for the journal Higher Education Research a
nd Development and faculty member of the biennial
ACODE Learning Technologies Leadership Institute.<
/span>
\n \n
Anatoly Oleksiyenko<
/span> is Professor of
International Higher Education and Co-Director of
the Centre for Higher Education Leadership and Po
licy Studies at the Education University of Hong K
ong (EdUHK). His research focuses on the challenge
s of globalisation in higher education and transfo
rmations of universities in the 21st century. His
publications address the dilemmas of agency of int
ernationalization in higher education\, complexity
of governance\, and ethics of leadership in neoli
beral universities. He is a leading scholar on the
challenges of organizational change in post-sovie
t higher education. His publications received awar
ds from the Comparative and International Educatio
n Society in the USA (2016 – best article award fr
om Higher Education SIG\; 2019 – best book award f
rom the SIG International Students and Study Abroa
d\; and 2024 – best research paper award from the
SIG Europe and Central Asia). Professor Oleksiyenk
o holds a PhD in Higher Education from OISE-Univer
sity of Toronto.
\n \n
Lee Mackenzie is a lecturer in Education and Early Child
hood at Liverpool Hope University. Previously\, he
has worked in a range of contexts globally as a t
eacher and teacher educator. He has also worked in
Colombia as a researcher/lecturer with a focus on
English language education. He holds a PhD in Edu
cation and Social Justice from Lancaster Universit
y and has published articles on higher education\,
language policy and planning\, teacher discrimina
tion\, language and human development\, and teache
r reflection. <
/span>
\n \n <
span style="line-height:normal\;">
<
span style="color:#000000\;">Deisy Alexandra Becer
ra Martel is a doctoral
student at Liverpool Hope University\, United Kin
gdom. She is currently researching the inclusion o
f forcibly displaced learners in Colombia. She gre
w up in a conflict zone on the Venezuelan/Colombia
n border and has twice been forcibly displaced. Sh
e holds a degree in Education from Simon Rodriguez
University\, Caracas\, and an MA in Educational P
sychology with a major in Inclusive Education from
Alcalá de Henares University\, Spain.
\
n \n Dr Bassem
Kandil is an a
ssistant professor in the Faculty of Education at
Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ). He is als
o the head of the MA Department (English and Arabi
c sections). Starting from the premise that teachi
ng and research complement each other\, Dr. Kandil
strives to innovatively integrate research findin
gs into the courses he teaches.
\n \n Patricia Rached is a Professor\, HDR (post-doctorate) and D
ean of the Faculty of Education at Saint Joseph Un
iversity of Beirut. Her research focuses on univer
sity pedagogy\, the support of learners and teache
rs\, humanistic approaches\, and educational neuro
science.
\n \n
Kibbie Naidoo
is Director of the
Centre for Academic Staff Development at the Unive
rsity of Johannesburg. She convenes the national T
eaching Advancement at Universities (TAU) Fellowsh
ip Programme and the Southern African Universities
Learning and Teaching (SAULT) Forum and serves on
the Executive Management Committee for the implem
entation of the National Framework for Enhancing A
cademics as Teachers. Kibbie’s research interests
include academic agency\, professionalising academ
ic development\, rurality\, and social justice in
higher education. Prior to joining UJ she taught i
n Sociology\, Industrial Sociology and Higher educ
ation at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
\n \n The late Hemali Joshi<
/span> was the Director of th
e Centre for Academic Technologies (CAT) at the Un
iversity of Johannesburg (UJ). Before joining CAT\
, Hemali worked at the Academic Development Centre
(ADC) in integrated student success and taught An
thropology to both undergraduate and postgraduate
students. Hemali was the recipient of a Faculty of
Humanities teaching award\, the Vice-Chancellor’s
award for ‘Most Promising Young Teacher’ and\, a
Teaching Advancement at Universities (TAU) Fellows
hip. Her research interests included education\, t
echnology\, performance\, and engaging with questi
ons of social justice. Hemali was passionate about
student success and believed education was about
what anthropologist Michael Wesch terms “soul-maki
ng”.
\n \n Kiruthika Ragupathi is a Senior Associ
ate Director at the Centre for Development of Teac
hing and Learning\, National University of Singapo
re. Her research work focuses on academic developm
ent\, assessment\, social practice theory\, graded
/gradeless learning\, online learning\, interdisci
plinary education\, and student living-learning ex
periences.
\n \n Adrian Lee is an Associate Pr
ofessor in the Department of Chemistry\, and the f
ormer Deputy Director at the Centre for Developmen
t of Teaching and Learning at the National Univers
ity of Singapore. His research interests include t
echnology-enhanced learning\, especially blended l
earning\, interdisciplinary education\, academic d
evelopment\, and student living-learning experienc
es.
\n \n Dr
Kasturi Behari-Leak is Professor in Higher Education Studies\, D
ean of the Centre for Higher Education Development
and Director of the Academic Staff and Profession
al Development Unit at the University of Cape Town
. She has led university-wide\, national and inter
national projects on leadership\, professional dev
elopment and decolonial pedagogies and publishes i
n these fields. As past President of the Higher Ed
ucation Learning and Teaching Association of South
ern Africa\, she convenes its University Staff Doc
toral Programme. She is also past President of the
International Consortium of Educational Developme
nt. She is a member of international research cons
ortia\, editorial boards and advisory groups.
\n \n Alison Cook-Sathe
r\, Ph.D.\, is
the Mary Katharine Woodworth Professor of Educatio
n at Bryn Mawr College and Director of the Teachin
g and Learning Institute at Bryn Mawr and Haverfor
d Colleges in the US. She has developed internatio
nally recognized student-faculty pedagogical partn
ership programs and authored or co-authored over 2
00 articles and chapters and 12 books\, including
Co-creating Equitable Teaching and Lear
ning: Structuring Student Voice into Higher Educat
ion and Promoting Equity and Justice through Pedagogica
l Partnership. Alison has consulted on 6 continents
on pedagogical partnership and co-creation\, suppo
rted over 100 institutions in exploring pedagogica
l partnership and co-creation\, and received sever
al awards\, including the Alumni Excellence in Edu
cation Award from the Graduate School of Education
at Stanford University. Learn more at https://www.alisoncooksat
her.com/
\n \n Professor Susan Rowland is an a
ccomplished academic leader and biochemist\, curre
ntly serving as Vice Provost. She holds a BSc (Hon
s) and PhD in Biochemistry from the University of
Sydney\, along with a Graduate Certificate in High
er Education from The University of Queensland\, a
nd is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education A
cademy (PFHEA). With a career spanning research\,
teaching excellence\, and senior university leader
ship\, Professor Rowland brings deep expertise in
higher education strategy\, academic quality\, and
student experience. She is an Education Focused a
cademic\, and is widely recognized for her commitm
ent to advancing innovative teaching practices and
fostering inclusive\, high-impact learning enviro
nments across the university sector.
DESCRIPTION:SRHE Members must log-in to access member registra
tion rates \n \n \n \n Facilitated by: Prof Namrat
a Rao\, Prof Alex Owen and Dr Emily Danvers and wh
o are the convenors of the Learning\, Teaching & A
ssessment Network. For more details about the netw
ork and its activities\, please click here.\n \n \
n \n Overview\n \n \n \n This session brings toget
her scholars for a focused and practice-oriented e
xploration of how higher education responds to mom
ents of crisis — political\, environmental\, insti
tutional\, and pedagogical — and how such conditio
ns reshape teaching practices\, assessment\, acade
mic identity\, and the student experience.\n \n \n
\n Featuring mini keynote presentations and a pan
el discussion\, the programme reflects a breadth o
f perspectives drawn from diverse higher education
contexts\, including contributions from Australia
\, Hong Kong\, Lebanon\, New Zealand\, Singapore\,
South Africa\, South America\, the United Kingdom
\, and the United States. Together\, these contrib
utions highlight how crises are negotiated across
varied political systems\, institutional structure
s\, and cultural settings.\n \n \n \n Drawing on b
oth research and lived academic experience\, the n
etwork event will generate shared insights into su
staining meaningful learning during disruption. Th
e intention is to foster research-led dialogue\, o
ffering participants critical frameworks and pract
ical approaches to develop responsive\, thoughtful
\, and effective strategies for navigating future
crises in higher education\, while strengthening s
cholarly networks in times of uncertainty.\n \n \n
\n Schedule \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 09:3
0 - 09:40\n \n \n \n \n SRHE welcome and
housekeeping\n \n \n \n Introduction and overvi
ew of the session by Dr Tanya Hathaway\n \n \n
\n \n \n \n \n 09:40 - 10:30\n \n \n
\n \n Prof Stephen Marshall: Resilience and
learning in the face of Black and Gray Swans: Acad
emic development and capability building through c
risis in New Zealand\n \n \n \n Prof Anatoly V.
Oleksiyenko: Teaching Leadership and Learning Thr
ough Crises and Supercomplexity in Glonacal Higher
Education: A case study from Hong Kong\n \n \n \n
Including Q&A\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n
10:30 -10.35\n \n \n \n \n Break\n \n
\n \n \n \n \n \n 10:35 - 11:25\n \n
\n \n \n Dr Lee Mackenzie & Dr Deisy Ale
xandra Becerra Martel: Addressing inequality in hi
gher education during a time of crisis: A view fro
m the Global South\n \n \n \n Prof Susan Rowlan
d: "Distributed" leadership in time of crisis\n \n
\n \n Dr Bassem Kandil &Prof Patricia Rached:
Addressing Teaching and Learning Challenges: The c
ase study of a Lebanese university\n \n \n \n D
r Kibbie Naidoo (incorporating the work of Dr Hema
li Joshi): Leading Learning and Learning to Lead i
n Times of Crisis: A case study from a South Afric
an University\n \n \n \n Dr Kiruthika Ragupathi
& Dr Adrian Lee: Leading academic development in
times of uncertainty and crisis in Singapore\n \n
\n \n Snap presentations followed by 20 minutes
panel discussion\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n
11:25 - 11:30\n \n \n \n \n Break\n \
n \n \n \n \n \n \n 11:30 - 12:20\n \
n \n \n \n Prof Kasturi Behari-Leak: Lead
erful leadership as a praxis of care: A Case Study
from South Africa\n \n \n \n Prof Alison Cook-
Sather: When Crises Catalyse the Expansion of Equi
ty-focused Student-Staff Pedagogical Partnership:
A North American Perspective\n \n \n \n Includi
ng Q&A\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 12.20 -
12.30\n \n \n \n \n Close\n \n \n \n
\n \n \n \n \n Speaker bios\n \n \n \n Professo
r Stephen Marshall (PFHEA) is Director at the Vict
oria University of Wellington Centre for Academic
Development. Stephen leads Victoria University Dig
ital Vision and Strategy for Learning and Teaching
initiatives and researches in the areas of organi
sational change in higher education\, quality\, be
nchmarking\, plagiarism and academic integrity\, i
ntellectual property\, and the development of educ
ational policy and strategy supporting and encoura
ging the effective use of technology. He is a long
-serving editor for the journal Higher Education R
esearch and Development and faculty member of the
biennial ACODE Learning Technologies Leadership In
stitute.\n \n \n \n Anatoly Oleksiyenko is Profess
or of International Higher Education and Co-Direct
or of the Centre for Higher Education Leadership a
nd Policy Studies at the Education University of H
ong Kong (EdUHK). His research focuses on the chal
lenges of globalisation in higher education and tr
ansformations of universities in the 21st century.
His publications address the dilemmas of agency o
f internationalization in higher education\, compl
exity of governance\, and ethics of leadership in
neoliberal universities. He is a leading scholar o
n the challenges of organizational change in post-
soviet higher education. His publications received
awards from the Comparative and International Edu
cation Society in the USA (2016 – best article awa
rd from Higher Education SIG\; 2019 – best book aw
ard from the SIG International Students and Study
Abroad\; and 2024 – best research paper award from
the SIG Europe and Central Asia). Professor Oleks
iyenko holds a PhD in Higher Education from OISE-U
niversity of Toronto.\n \n \n \n Lee Mackenzie is
a lecturer in Education and Early Childhood at Liv
erpool Hope University. Previously\, he has worked
in a range of contexts globally as a teacher and
teacher educator. He has also worked in Colombia a
s a researcher/lecturer with a focus on English la
nguage education. He holds a PhD in Education and
Social Justice from Lancaster University and has p
ublished articles on higher education\, language p
olicy and planning\, teacher discrimination\, lang
uage and human development\, and teacher reflectio
n. \n \n \n \n Deisy Alexandra Becerra Martel is a
doctoral student at Liverpool Hope University\, U
nited Kingdom. She is currently researching the in
clusion of forcibly displaced learners in Colombia
. She grew up in a conflict zone on the Venezuelan
/Colombian border and has twice been forcibly disp
laced. She holds a degree in Education from Simon
Rodriguez University\, Caracas\, and an MA in Educ
ational Psychology with a major in Inclusive Educa
tion from Alcalá de Henares University\, Spain. \n
\n \n \n Dr Bassem Kandil is an assistant profess
or in the Faculty of Education at Saint Joseph Uni
versity of Beirut (USJ). He is also the head of th
e MA Department (English and Arabic sections). Sta
rting from the premise that teaching and research
complement each other\, Dr. Kandil strives to inno
vatively integrate research findings into the cour
ses he teaches.\n \n \n \n Patricia Rached is a Pr
ofessor\, HDR (post-doctorate) and Dean of the Fac
ulty of Education at Saint Joseph University of Be
irut. Her research focuses on university pedagogy\
, the support of learners and teachers\, humanisti
c approaches\, and educational neuroscience. \n \n
\n \n Kibbie Naidoo is Director of the Centre for
Academic Staff Development at the University of J
ohannesburg. She convenes the national Teaching Ad
vancement at Universities (TAU) Fellowship Program
me and the Southern African Universities Learning
and Teaching (SAULT) Forum and serves on the Execu
tive Management Committee for the implementation o
f the National Framework for Enhancing Academics a
s Teachers. Kibbie’s research interests include ac
ademic agency\, professionalising academic develop
ment\, rurality\, and social justice in higher edu
cation. Prior to joining UJ she taught in Sociolog
y\, Industrial Sociology and Higher education at t
he University of KwaZulu-Natal.\n \n \n \n The lat
e Hemali Joshi was the Director of the Centre for
Academic Technologies (CAT) at the University of J
ohannesburg (UJ). Before joining CAT\, Hemali work
ed at the Academic Development Centre (ADC) in int
egrated student success and taught Anthropology to
both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Hem
ali was the recipient of a Faculty of Humanities t
eaching award\, the Vice-Chancellor’s award for ‘M
ost Promising Young Teacher’ and\, a Teaching Adva
ncement at Universities (TAU) Fellowship. Her rese
arch interests included education\, technology\, p
erformance\, and engaging with questions of social
justice. Hemali was passionate about student succ
ess and believed education was about what anthropo
logist Michael Wesch terms “soul-making”.\n \n \n
\n Kiruthika Ragupathi is a Senior Associate Direc
tor at the Centre for Development of Teaching and
Learning\, National University of Singapore. Her r
esearch work focuses on academic development\, ass
essment\, social practice theory\, graded/gradeles
s learning\, online learning\, interdisciplinary e
ducation\, and student living-learning experiences
. \n \n \n \n Adrian Lee is an Associate Profess
or in the Department of Chemistry\, and the former
Deputy Director at the Centre for Development of
Teaching and Learning at the National University o
f Singapore. His research interests include techno
logy-enhanced learning\, especially blended learni
ng\, interdisciplinary education\, academic develo
pment\, and student living-learning experiences.\n
\n \n \n Dr Kasturi Behari-Leak is Professor in H
igher Education Studies\, Dean of the Centre for H
igher Education Development and Director of the Ac
ademic Staff and Professional Development Unit at
the University of Cape Town. She has led universit
y-wide\, national and international projects on le
adership\, professional development and decolonial
pedagogies and publishes in these fields. As past
President of the Higher Education Learning and Te
aching Association of Southern Africa\, she conven
es its University Staff Doctoral Programme. She is
also past President of the International Consorti
um of Educational Development. She is a member of
international research consortia\, editorial board
s and advisory groups.\n \n \n \n Alison Cook-Sath
er\, Ph.D.\, is the Mary Katharine Woodworth Profe
ssor of Education at Bryn Mawr College and Directo
r of the Teaching and Learning Institute at Bryn M
awr and Haverford Colleges in the US. She has deve
loped internationally recognized student-faculty p
edagogical partnership programs and authored or co
-authored over 200 articles and chapters and 12 bo
oks\, including Co-creating Equitable Teaching and
Learning: Structuring Student Voice into Higher E
ducation and Promoting Equity and Justice through
Pedagogical Partnership. Alison has consulted on 6
continents on pedagogical partnership and co-crea
tion\, supported over 100 institutions in explorin
g pedagogical partnership and co-creation\, and re
ceived several awards\, including the Alumni Excel
lence in Education Award from the Graduate School
of Education at Stanford University. Learn more at
https://www.alisoncooksather.com/ \n \n \n \n Pro
fessor Susan Rowland is an accomplished academic l
eader and biochemist\, currently serving as Vice P
rovost. She holds a BSc (Hons) and PhD in Biochemi
stry from the University of Sydney\, along with a
Graduate Certificate in Higher Education from The
University of Queensland\, and is a Principal Fell
ow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA). With a
career spanning research\, teaching excellence\,
and senior university leadership\, Professor Rowla
nd brings deep expertise in higher education strat
egy\, academic quality\, and student experience. S
he is an Education Focused academic\, and is widel
y recognized for her commitment to advancing innov
ative teaching practices and fostering inclusive\,
high-impact learning environments across the univ
ersity sector.\n \n
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