I am pleased to get my hands of a copy of this new book A Field Guide to Working in Higher Education

The book is designed to support new lecturers who are joining HE from a background in a professional area or career rather than a career in academia. These new teachers draw on different background knowledge and I think it has been a gap in professional development in universities to recognise that they need specific help to get up to speed in our cultures and languages alongside the expertise they are bringing in their area of practice. Too often academic colleagues try to exclude professional people by using academic jargon or referencing arcane local processes.

My contributions to the guide are about the IT support, learning technology, VLEs etc which new colleagues can find for their teaching.  Please do buy a copy and ask your library to buy it for colleagues.