Manoj Ravi and Mohsen Besharat join Robert Averies for Part Two of their popular LITE Bites episode on their LITE Fellowship 'Assessment Flexibility to Embed Real-professional practice'.

Listen to Manoj and Mohsen discuss their findings from the second phase of their pedagogical research and its relevance to colleagues considering innovations to their authentic assessment and formative feedback policies and approaches.

To find out more about Manoj and Mohsen's work, read their paper on a 'holistic consideration of authentic assessments', published in the European Journal of Engineering Education. You can also read the proceedings of the workshop they delivered at SEFI 2025.

In this episode of LITE Bites, Hayley Bullard is joined by Clare Wright (Professor of Linguistics & Language Teaching), Alison Leslie (Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes) and student partner Sally Heier (Research and Innovation Service) who will be discussing their recently completed project titled Stepping Up, Standing Out: Supporting international taught postgraduates to make the most of their year in Leeds.

To find out more about their project, visit their LITE page which also has a link to their full snapshot of the project. Alison and Clare have also published work from their project in the Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal.

Episode topics/timings

1.16 Introductions of research team

3.49 - What inspired the project: collaboration and a need for change

9.25 Research design: changing approach and putting student co-creation first

15.56 Sally’s student experience of research recruitment and the importance of active student participation

19.50 Flipping the deficit narrative of international students

26.48 Using infographics to communicate findings and strategies for dissemination

31.51 Engaging hearts and minds in HE

40.03 Outputs of the project

47.01 Advice for people considering pedagogical research

52.55 Sally’s advice for engaging students in research and advice for students thinking about getting involved

In the second episode from LITE Graduate Interns Oliver Bingham (Ollie) and Yu-Hsuan Lin (Lynda), they dive deeper into seminar spaces.

Do students care where they learn? This podcast explores student and staff preferences for teaching rooms, and how these spaces can impact learning.

Learn more about the Student Education & Experience Programme and Ollie and Lynda's research on the LITE intranet site, where you can also review the education spaces playbook. External to the University of Leeds? Email LITE@leeds.ac.uk to find out more.