Published! “Engineering students trust teachers who ask, listen, and respond” (Glessmer, Persson, Forsyth; 2024)
This article was probably the easiest and most fun to write in my whole career so far! Trust between students and teachers is a really engaging topic, so when Rachel first interviewed Peter and myself, we jumped on the opportunity to continue discussing it with her, and then also with students, who we started to interview. Those interviewees in turn also became curious and invited us to add a question to a survey that was about to be sent out by the student union. The students taking the survey were clearly also interested in the topic, so out of those 477 students, 467 filled in the free-text response to our question! Such a response rate is pretty much unheard of, and many of the responses were quite detailed, too. But in a nutshell: “Engineering students trust teachers who ask, listen, and respond“. Read it here!
Glessmer, M. S., Persson, P., & Forsyth, R. (2024). Engineering students trust teachers who ask, listen, and respond. International Journal for Academic Development, 1–14. doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2024.2438224
Currently reading Jeffery et al. (2025): "Autistic voices in higher education: lessons from UK geoscience students to inform inclusive practices for neurodiverse learners" - Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching says:
[…] Interestingly, “mandatory training [was] almost unanimously presented as the most powerful means of addressing the exclusivity of the current HE system to autistic people“. Reading this, I am pretty sure that this is the type of training that would end up on my task list, and I am completely not qualified to do this! Even though all the recommendations above seem like simply good teaching practice, and I would appreciate especially the quiet physical and timetable space so much myself… Maybe it is not so much more difficult than asking, listening, and responding to students? […]
More reading about mattering and care in higher education, inspired by the work of Gravett, Kinchin and others - Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching says:
[…] matter, enthusiasm for learning and aspirations for the future”. Which is so similar to what Rachel, Peter and I find in Glessmer et al. (2024) that it feels embarassing to not have known about that article in time to cite […]