About us

The Eden Centre, established in October 2019, is a pro-active, developmental centre of education expertise with a clear focus on academic staff development, curriculum enrichment and digital innovation. Drawing on an evidence-base and a commitment to inclusive practice, it works at both strategic and operational levels to enable education enhancement in line with the priorities of LSE2030 and higher education sectoral requirements emerging from the Teaching Excellence Framework and the School’s Access and Participation Plan.

Our work is underpinned by the following principles:

• Enhancing education in the social sciences and the student experience at LSE through leading and supporting the review and enrichment of curricula including through harnessing learning technologies;

• Engaging colleagues at all stages of their career in the development of their educational practice as individuals, teams and education leaders;

• Enabling a high quality, research-rich and inclusive education experience for all our students.

Our team offers a range of developmental and funding opportunities to all staff who teach and support students’ learning including:

• Induction: We run annual induction programmes for Heads of Departments, New Academics and Graduate Teaching Assistants.

• Departmental advising: We offer support, guidance and expertise to individuals and departments on all aspects of teaching and learning.

• Learning systems: We oversee and support School-wide learning systems such as Moodle and lecture recording.

• Programmes: We run the HEA accredited LSE Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education and the LSE Introduction to Teaching, and also mentor members of staff working towards SFHEA fellowship.

• Events: We organise workshops, practice exchange forums and networks for academic staff to exchange ideas and develop their educational practice.

• Teaching resources: We have an ever-growing range of resources for all LSE staff including notes of guidance and case studies of good practice.We also oversee three online portals: the LSE Assessment Toolkit, the Academic Mentoring Portal and the GTA Portal.

• Education research and funding: We fund and support education enhancement and innovation initiatives at LSE.

• Innovation: We pilot new education initiatives in collaboration with colleagues across the School such as Showcase Portfolios, the Inclusive Education Action Plan, and LSE Change Makers.

• Research-rich education: We encourage the development of undergraduate research opportunities through LSE GROUPS and Posters in Parliament.

We hope that you find this site informative and useful but if you cannot find what you are looking for, please do get in touch with us at eden@lse.ac.uk. You can also reach us by telephone on 0207 107 5749.

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