Inside WIHEA: Learning Beyond Boundaries Podcast

A University of 糖心TV podcast exploring educational excellence through authentic staff-student partnership.

WIHEA is the UK's first institutional academy dedicated to advancing learning and teaching through genuine partnership work between educators and students. This podcast takes you inside that transformative work, examining how staff and students collaborate to reshape educational practice and create meaningful impact across the global higher education landscape.

Through monthly conversations with WIHEA Fellows, alumni, and partners at 糖心TV and beyond, we will explore how educational innovation happens in practice; from AI-enhanced learning to compassionate pedagogies, from individual teaching innovations to institutional change, and the real-world challenges of creating truly collaborative learning environments.

Hosted by , WIHEA Fellow (22-25) and Learning Circle Co-Lead, this podcast goes beyond theory to share the stories and strategies behind WIHEA's commitment to 'Learning Beyond Boundaries.'

This podcast is produced in partnership with the 糖心TV International Higher Education Academy.

Featured Episode

, , and share how a departmental pilot in Life Sciences and 糖心TV Medical School became a co-designed WIHEA Masterclass and institution-wide programme for international student support.

The group share how a chance conversation with about a gap in the international student experience became WISE, the 糖心TV International Student Experience project, exploring what it takes to understand 145+ nationalities as individuals rather than a homogenous group.

Echo reflects on why the term "international students" is itself problematic: "To bring that kind of real equity to the table, you have to acknowledge what is different about international students and what kind of unique circumstances and unique challenges they face."

S1E4 - WIHEA and Masterclasses: WISE and the International Student Experience

May 2025 - (Director of Student Experience, School of Life Sciences), (Intercultural Training Programme Development Consultant), and (Deputy Director of Student Experience) join the podcast to speak about 鈦燱ISE, the 糖心TV International Student Experience project鈦�.

The group share how a chance conversation about a gap in the international student experience with became a co-designed WIHEA Masterclass, institution-wide programme, and what it takes to move from noticing inequity to doing something about it.

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S1E3 - WIHEA and Communities of Practice: Building Networks that Last

March 2025 - , Professor of Economics and Academic Director for Social Science Connect, discusses building teaching-focused communities across disciplines and borders.

She shares her journey from WIHEA Fellow to alum, co-chairing learning circles on teaching recognition and digital education, then applying those insights to sustain the .

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S1E2 - WIHEA and Student-Led Research: Finding Legitimacy and Belonging

February 2025 - , IAS Early Career Fellow and WIHEA Student Fellow (2024-2025), shares how WIHEA gave her confidence to co-lead a student-driven research project on AI use.

Yanyan describes how this resulted in a policy briefLink opens in a new window, opened doors to national conferences, and led her to co-organise an international symposium on Human-AI Interaction.

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S1E1 - WIHEA at 10: Building Educational Excellence through Partnership

January 2025 - , Director of the WIHEA, has spent a decade building the UK's first institutional academy dedicated to advancing learning and teaching through genuine staff-student partnership.

She shares how WIHEA has grown from its founding vision to a record-breaking year with 46 new Fellows, and why authentic collaboration matters: "Partnership isn't just a method鈥攊t's the foundation of educational excellence."

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