Spotlight guides

Expert guides on higher education, bringing together varied advice on the most pressing issues faced by faculty and university staff today. Our spotlights offer a deep dive into different areas of work within an academic institution and explore how best to deliver higher education in different global contexts. Drawing on Campus’s rich repository of insight from professionals at all levels of the academy, from early career researchers and lecturers to provosts and pro-vice chancellors, each spotlight provides multiple perspectives on key challenges.

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How academia can work well with industry

Advice on how universities and their staff can maximise the benefits of academic-industry partnerships for researchers, students and society

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What next for EDI? Protecting equality of opportunity in HE

As equity, diversity and inclusion practices face mounting political and cultural challenges, this guide includes strategies from academics around the world on preserving fair access and opportunity for all

Laura Duckett, Campus contributors

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An academics’ guide to policy impact

How to plan and share academic research so policymakers take notice and apply your findings to real-world issues

Laura Duckett, Campus contributors

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Spotlight guide: Make mental health a university priority

Make good mental health a university priority

With poor mental health now rife across higher education, what can be done to create a supportive campus environment that strengthens well-being and resilience among university students and staff?

Laura Duckett, Campus contributors

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Critical thinking in teaching and research

Practical strategies and advice for university educators and researchers to develop and teach the skills to analyse, evaluate, understand and communicate knowledge in an information-saturated world

Eliza Compton, Campus contributors

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Higher education's bumpy road to net zero

Higher education’s bumpy road to net zero

How universities and academics can ensure rhetoric translates to action on the climate crisis

Kiera O'Brien, Campus contributors

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How to build belonging at your institution

Advice and strategies for creating a university campus where all students and staff feel accepted, valued and respected

Eliza Compton, Campus contributors

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What can higher education learn from social media?

This collection explores how social media can be used to develop skills, shape pedagogy and foster online learning communities, as well as support academics in building their professional profiles and extending the reach of their research

Laura Duckett, Campus contributors

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Bringing GenAI into the university classroom

How to use generative AI to improve teaching, rethink assessment, reduce course admin and equip students with AI literacy and other career enhancing skills

Campus contributors

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Spotlight guide: Back to the basics of pedagogy

Back to the basics of pedagogy

Techniques and methods to enrich your teaching - and your students’ learning outcomes

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Spotlight guide: Advice for surviving your PhD dissertation

Advice for surviving your PhD dissertation

Tips for each step of researching, writing and refining a PhD dissertation

Eliza Compton, Campus contributors

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Redefining the university library for 2025 and beyond

Redefining the university library for 2025 and beyond

University libraries must keep pace with the many changes sweeping across global higher education in order to serve students, researchers and the wider public. In this guide, library teams and academics offer advice on how to do so

Kiera O'Brien, Campus contributors

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Academic publishing today: what you need to know

A guide to the complex and changing world of academic publishing and how to work with it to get your research out there

Campus contributors

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Spotlight guide: AI and assessment

AI and assessment in higher education

Threat or opportunity? Advice for using, managing and embedding artificial intelligence in university assessment, skills development and task design

Eliza Compton, Campus contributors

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Is your academic career cleared for take off?

Academic career advice to help you reach new heights in higher education, from crafting the perfect CV to navigating teaching and research pathways

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Spotlight guide: Get students workplace ready

Get your students workplace-ready

With the shape of the future job market harder to predict than ever before, here’s how to prepare your students with transferable skills and digital literacy, ready them for job applications and strengthen your university career services

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