Prof Jess Power's Outputs (127)

The Ukraine Narrative - A perspective on continued professional development. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The recent conflict in Ukraine has disrupted higher education, making continued professional development (CPD) a challenge due to displacement of educators, internet disruption, and limited access to resources. In response, the University of Salford... Read More about The Ukraine Narrative - A perspective on continued professional development..

The Ukraine Narrative - A perspective on continued professional development. (2025)
Journal Article

The recent conflict in Ukraine has disrupted higher education, making continued professional development (CPD) a challenge due to displacement of educators, internet disruption, and limited access to resources. In response, the University of Salford... Read More about The Ukraine Narrative - A perspective on continued professional development..

Editorial - LTEC Post-Festival Publication (2025)
Journal Article

The third annual Festival of Learning and Teaching (2-3rd September 2024) was held in Salford’s New Adelphi Building. It provided an opportunity for Salford’s learning and teaching community (L&T) community to come together to share best practice, ne... Read More about Editorial - LTEC Post-Festival Publication.

A Picture Tells a Thousand Words; An Experience Provokes Infinite Emotion (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Centre at the University of Salford has harnessed the power of visual storytelling to transform academic practice. Our presentation explores the innovative integration of user experience principles and creative a... Read More about A Picture Tells a Thousand Words; An Experience Provokes Infinite Emotion.

Crafting Equitable Pathways: Co-Creating Inclusive Assessment & Feedback Principles (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The presentation provides a synthesis of our approach to co-create inclusive assessment and feedback principles to support equitable and fair learning environments. The principles were derived from internal enhancement initiatives designed to improve... Read More about Crafting Equitable Pathways: Co-Creating Inclusive Assessment & Feedback Principles.

A Picture Tells a Thousand Words; An Experience Provokes Infinite Emotions (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The University of Salford’s Learning and Teaching Enhancement Centre has harnessed the power of visual communication and dynamic branding to transform academic practice. Our presentation explores the innovative integration of user experience principl... Read More about A Picture Tells a Thousand Words; An Experience Provokes Infinite Emotions.

Supporting BTEC student Progression (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation shares insights and best practices from the Enabling Student Success Project. It provides a brief overview of the project and its significance with focus on creating equitable student journeys.

An evidence based approach to re-engaging students by re-framing support for success (2024)
Journal Article

Improving student retention and engagement is a high priority for the sector. This study presents an approach adopted within a large Academic School to re-engage students who might otherwise have been withdrawn from the system. The work presented con... Read More about An evidence based approach to re-engaging students by re-framing support for success.

GLAD-HE 2023 Post-Symposium Publication: Gathering Ourselves. (2024)
Journal Article

On the back of our 2021 virtual conference ‘Responding, Reframing, Re-thinking: a new era in creative education for our sector’, GLAD (Group for Learning in Art and Design in Higher Education) launched its first post-conference special edition, publi... Read More about GLAD-HE 2023 Post-Symposium Publication: Gathering Ourselves..

A thematic approach to enhance transition between levels, for students with vocational qualifications. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This workshop explores insightful practice in relation to supporting students who enter higher education having undertaken vocational qualifications. We will provide an opportunity to reflect on different factors which affect levelness and how to cha... Read More about A thematic approach to enhance transition between levels, for students with vocational qualifications..

LTEC Post-Festival Publication: Developing Authentic Practitioners “practice”, “identity”, “community”. (2024)
Journal Article

Our post-festival special edition publication is a collection of papers and audio poster from the University of Salford’s Learning and Teaching Festival 2023. The festival brought together Salford’s learning and teaching community with over 13... Read More about LTEC Post-Festival Publication: Developing Authentic Practitioners “practice”, “identity”, “community”..

Reaching Out and Shouting Loud: Capturing best practice in learning and teaching scholarly practice at The University of Salford. Innovative Practice in Higher Education. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents a panoramic view of the Institution's engagement with learning, teaching, and scholarly activities, shedding light on the critical mass of knowledge and initiatives that define contributions to the field of pedagogy. Findings reve... Read More about Reaching Out and Shouting Loud: Capturing best practice in learning and teaching scholarly practice at The University of Salford. Innovative Practice in Higher Education..

Made to Stick: Using qualitative data analysis software to Understand the Impact of 'sticky culture' in Rapid and adaptive change in Higher Education. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Purpose: This paper appraises the role of NVivo and an analytical framework to understand the lived experience of cultural change within a UK Higher Education institution and its connection to ‘sticky’ organisational culture.

Methods: As part of... Read More about Made to Stick: Using qualitative data analysis software to Understand the Impact of 'sticky culture' in Rapid and adaptive change in Higher Education..

Reaching out and Shouting loud: Capturing best practice in learning and teaching scholarly practice at Salford (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Blezard, E., Power, J., Whitnall, D., & Taylor, W. (2023, September). Reaching out and Shouting loud: Capturing best practice in learning and teaching scholarly practice at Salford. Presented at LTEC Learning and Teaching Festival, University of Salford

At a recent HEPI guest panel, it was acknowledged that learning and teaching scholarly practices, which are core to many university visions and critical to providing an excellent student experience, are often less visible than traditional academic re... Read More about Reaching out and Shouting loud: Capturing best practice in learning and teaching scholarly practice at Salford.

Interdisciplinary challenge led learning – a blueprint for the future (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Graduates of the future will be required to work in areas that transcend traditional academic disciplines and therefore new pedagogical approaches are needed to ensure they are equipped with the knowledge, skills, networks and attributes to thrive. A... Read More about Interdisciplinary challenge led learning – a blueprint for the future.

Designing Emotions: Strategies for Furniture Designers. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Investigating the characteristics of furniture most loved by consumers, this research presents a tool for designers to create new products that emotionally connect with people. The research undertaken explores methodologies associated with emotional... Read More about Designing Emotions: Strategies for Furniture Designers..

Building a community of to support learning and teaching practice. Our journey… (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Centre (LTEC) at the University of Salford was formally launched January 2022. The Centre supports colleagues across academic schools and professional services to develop innovative learning and teaching (L&T) p... Read More about Building a community of to support learning and teaching practice. Our journey….

Learning and teaching in the post-pandemic era (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A case-study to promote academic citizenship within the postgraduate community: inclusive structures driving transformational change. (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Whitnall, D., West, M., Power, E., & Blezard, E. (2022, November). A case-study to promote academic citizenship within the postgraduate community: inclusive structures driving transformational change. Presented at 3rd International Conference on the Mental Health & Wellbeing of Postgraduate Researchers, Jurys Inn Waterfront Hotel, Brighton

The lived experience: driving transformational change within higher education during and beyond the pandemic (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Power, E., Whitnall, D., West, M., & Grogan, S. (2022, September). The lived experience: driving transformational change within higher education during and beyond the pandemic. Presented at IFNTF “Symposathon” REshaping Teaching Excellence: Pandemic and the New Now, Virtual

The University of Salford is on a journey of adaptive change, redefining its strategy for the next 5 years. In recent history the HE sector has experienced seismic shifts in policy, expectation, and operation as well as the world-wide adaption to lif... Read More about The lived experience: driving transformational change within higher education during and beyond the pandemic.