In the fifth episode of the LITE Bites series, Emma Peasland asks Emily Crosbie about her recently completed fellowship investigating the impact of in-module student engagement with business professionals through the Leeds University Business School Leaders in Residence Programme. Emily shares insights from students and business professionals and shares recommendations for those wanting to offer similar opportunities.

Episode 4 of LITE Bites features a conversation with Jiani Liu who shares her fellowship on assessment literacy and student success, which was completed in early 2023. Jiani explored how students develop their confidence and readiness for assessments in undergraduate modules.

You can see more of our research fellowships here, and read more about Jiani's research and access the outputs here.

Hear from LITE Fellow Gillian Proctor who discusses her fellowship: Authenticity and Connection Online. Gillian has spent two years researching the psychology of online learning using the interesting method of Action Research Groups. Gillian shares the findings from the research as well as discussing outputs that educators can use to structure synchronous online sessions.

You can see more of our research fellowships here, and read more about Gillian's research and access the outputs here.

In the second LITE Bite of the series, Dave Riley asks Laura Loyola-Hernandez about the innovative methodologies that she has used over the course of her LITE fellowship "Community-led Pedagogies to Diversify the Curriculum".

Hear from LITE Fellow Michelle Schneider who discusses her research into student and staff perceptions of the Learning Development team's provision here at Leeds. You can see more of our research fellowships here and read more about Michelle's research here. The Learning Development Team at Leeds aims to develop the academic literacies of all taught students through a dual model of embedded and co-curricular support. This study focuses on the centralised co-curricular Skills@Library offer, the ethos of which is developmental, supportive and complementary to the curriculum rather than ‘generic’, ‘remedial’ or ‘bolt on’, which are critiques generally associated with non-embedded skills development. This small-scale research project aimed to better understand how the Skills@Library cocurricular service is perceived by academic staff and students, with a particular focus on the latter.