Developing Academic Practice Journal

This journal aims to celebrate scholarship in all aspects of academic practice in Higher Education, whilst providing an open platform to disseminate open, creative and collaborative innovations in the support of learning and teaching, through publication.

Supported by Liverpool University Press, The Academy has launched its new Open Access journal, Developing Academic Practice.

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Through this journal, colleagues have the opportunity to contribute articles in relation to hybrid active learning, practice and pedagogies. The journal will become a cornerstone of the University's thriving culture of educational excellence and a vehicle to enhance the work of colleagues across the institution.

Special issue

Our special issue focusing on EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) following on from the 2023 Pedagogic Research Conference, has now been published:

Our next special issue will focus on AI in Learning and Teaching

Following the success of the recent Pedagogic Research Conference 2024, the special issue of DAP invites contributions in areas of developing academic practice, leadership and innovation in relation to generative artificial intelligence (AI) that show a forward-looking scholarly approach to how AI has been used in innovative ways in practice for learning and teaching, especially how evaluative judgment has been supported in the context of generative tools that can be transferred from one practice to another. Our vision for the issue is something that people can read and use, so we encourage submissions concerning innovative practice.

DAP special issue

Invitation to contribute 

The Developing Academic Practice Journal invites contributions for future publications in the areas of:

  • Developing academic practice
  • Developing academic leadership
  • Innovation in education.

Possible areas to be addressed include, but are not limited to:

  • Engaging students in the virtual classroom
  • Innovative assessment and feedback methods
  • Ideologies, dominant assumptions and grand narratives in scholarship and professional development
  • Engagement, impact and the evaluation of scholarship
  • Digital education/technology-enhanced learning
  • Values, ethics and critiques of education practice
  • Learning and teaching philosophies in education
  • Policy development in higher education and entrepreneurship
  • Inclusive education.

The Editors welcome submissions which can take one of the following formats:

  • Reflective articles: up to 1,000 words, excluding references
  • Case studies: up to 2,000 words, excluding references
  • Research papers: up to 5,000 words excluding references
  • Communication articles: up to 1,000 words excluding references

Developing Academic Practice is a continuous publication. If you have work that you would like to be considered for the journal, please submit your paper and abstract via our manuscript processing platform (ScholarOne Manuscripts). To access ScholarOne Manuscripts you will need to create a user account. A guide and FAQs are also available.

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