Departmental Advising

• To work in partnership with LSE’s academic departments to facilitate educational development, enhancement and innovation that is aligned to School-wide priorities. 

• To provide high-quality, evidence-informed and tailored educational guidance and consultancy that is equitable across departments.  

• To facilitate connections and the sharing of best practice between departments and across the School.  

• By using departmental data to inform department-specific educational development priorities and gaps.

• By communicating to departments cross-university and sector-wide trends in good educational practice, and advising on their applicability to individual disciplinary practices.

• By offering tailored educational enhancement and development activity where appropriate. 

Department advisers will:  

• Be a named point of contact for individuals and teams. 

• Support the development and implementation of department educational plans, drawing on data (e.g., NSS, School surveys) and School-wide priorities. 

• Annually, agree in partnership with the department what educational development activity is appropriate.  

• Offer regular updates on Eden Centre activity.  

• Report trends and good practices back to Eden.

• Be available to attend Departmental meetings and DTCs as required.  

• Departmental Advisers for the Department of Health Policy helped a colleague to refine the course, including the use of game design as assessment, to obtain departmental and School approval, and advised on creating videos for assessment.  

• The Department of Media & Communications investigated student responses to emotionally distressing teaching topics, with funding from Catalyst to support student focus groups. Students generated constructive ways to work with distressing content, touching on both teaching design and delivery, and peer interactions.  

• With support from their departmental adviser, the Department of International Development explored ways to standardise the marking and feedback process and make it more efficient. The collaboration resulted in a bespoke Moodle marking workflow that improved consistency for students and greatly reduced the time required to mark and administer assessments. 

• Department advisers collaborated with colleagues from the Management, Sociology and Media & Communications departments to develop and deliver bespoke training sessions for their faculty on the use of AI in education. Faculty were given the opportunity to experiment with AI tools and explore how they might be used in their teaching and research.