Digifest community hub 2025

Nurun Nahar, assistant teaching professor at the University of Greater Manchester talks with Carolina Barnes, Jisc community specialist about being celebrated a community champion of 2025 for her work with https://www.tirigogy.com/

The CPD community hosts webinars, podcasts, resources and provides a place for educators to connect and learn to improve their skills. 

Nurun shares how the community has grown since sharing a wealth of development opportunities and how she made it happen. 

You can connect with Nurun via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/nurun/ or https://www.tirigogy.com/

Podcast transcript = https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/10007/1/podcast-four-cpd-community-with-nurun-nahar-community-champion-2025.docx

Digifest community hub 2025: creating and growing a CPD community with Nurun Nahar

Chloë Hynes, AmplifyFE community lead and English lecturer (digital lead) at Wirral Metropolitan College, Emma Procter-Legg, project manager at AmplifyFE and Lynne Taylerson, researcher and community leader at AmplifyFE talk with Carolina Barnes, Jisc community specialist about connecting the FE sector.

We explore how the AmplifyFE community has grown through supporting educators with events and resources that are gathered across FE and understand what has contributed to its success and made it so impactful.

You can connect with AmplifyFE via the linktree if you would like to learn more = https://linktr.ee/amplifyfe?utm_source=qr_code 

Podcast transcript = https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/10012/1/podcast-11-amplifyfe-with-emma-proctor-legg-chloe-hynes-and-lynee-taylerson.docx

Digifest community hub 2025: Giving FE a voice with the AmplifyFE team

Laura Hutton, Subject Specialist in Accessibility at Jisc, is joined by Vicki Penny from Hartpury University and Colin Smith from Cornwall College. 

Vicki and Colin are part of a co-creation project at Jisc, led by Laura, called the FE Accessibility Training Matrix. The aim of the project is to create a shared resource for FE that curates training and resources relating to Accessibility and maps it to job roles and levels of knowledge required for all FE staff. This project is ongoing and more information can be found via the Jisc website: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/fe-accessibility-matrix#event-resources

This episode focuses on the motivations behind the project, reflections on the work so far and some general chat about the themes and sessions from Digifest.

Podcast transcript: https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/10029/1/accessibility-training-matrix-with-laura-hutton-vicki-penny-and-colin-smith-transcript.docx

Digifest community hub 2025: the FE Accessibility Training Matrix project

Join us for another great episode recorded from our Digifest 2025 community hub in March. This episode features two amazing professionals from Higher Education libraries: Rosie Jones from Teesside University and Caroline Ball from University of Derby. 

Hosted by Rosie Hare, Community Intelligence and Impact lead at Jisc, this conversation covers a wide variety of topics from leadership, digital and information literacy and the impact of working with communities of practice. 

Join us for another great conversation, and please share with your networks! 

Podcast transcript: https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/10028/1/academic-libraries-leadership-and-impact-with-caroline-ball-and-rosie-jones-transcript.docx


Digifest community hub 2025: Academic libraries, leadership and impact with Rosie Jones and Caroline Ball

Luke Searle, Learning Designer at University of Southampton talks with Carolina Barnes, Jisc community specialist about making maths accessible. 

Luke was celebrated a community champion of 2025 for being co-chair of the Jisc accessible maths working group. 
Luke shares how the community is helping provide tailored approaches to help make maths more accessible and how this has been achieved through the support and passion of the community. 

You can connect with accessible math JiscMail list https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=ACCESSIBLE-MATHS 

Podcast transcript = https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/10010/1/podcast-six-accessible-math-with-luke-searle-community-champion-2025.docx

Digifest community hub 2025: Making maths accessible with Luke Searle

As a teacher listening to this episode, I’m sure you remember your first few years in the profession – the unique challenges you faced and the support that made a difference to you. But what does the evidence say about how schools can best support early career teachers? New research from academics at Monash University has uncovered specific factors that support early career teachers’ sense of belonging at school. Four main themes emerged: teacher collaboration, relationships with colleagues, supporting early career teachers through their early-career journey, and getting early career teachers involved in school decision making. The lead author of the report, Ebony Melzak, joins me for this episode of The Research Files. Ebony is a psychologist and PhD candidate. Together, we’ll go through each theme in detail, what the research says, and how it might look in different school settings. 
Host: Dominique Russell
Guest: Ebony Melzak

Fostering a sense of belonging for early career teachers

What are the enablers and barriers to high performance working? What factors should individuals and teams consider to improve and achieve better performance outcomes? In the first of two episodes exploring these questions, CIPD Director of Profession David D’Souza investigates with best-selling author and broadcaster Matthew Syed the type of mindset that needs to be embraced and the kind of culture that supports people on that journey.

HR People Pod – Ep 30: Enabling high performance working: A growth mindset – with Matthew Syed

In this episode, Carl speaks with Tony Vincent, an independent consultant, speaker, and AI Coordinator at Council Bluffs Community School District.

Live from ISTE+ASCD with Tony Vincent

Live from ISTE+ASCD with Crystal Yang

In this episode, Carl sits down with Erika Sandstrom, a Digital Learning Coach and Digital Media Teacher specializing in Green Screen and Video Production.

Live from ISTE+ASCD with Erika Sandstrom

What are the persistent teaching dilemmas you find yourself thinking about in your spare time and circling back to time and again? Professor Brianna Kennedy from the University of Glasgow joins the podcast to talk about a 2-stage process for cracking persistent challenges in the classroom, how teachers can use it in practice, and the impact it has on student learning and engagement. 
Host: Rebecca Vukovic
Guest: Professor Brianna Kennedy
Find out more about Brianna’s work on Instagram and Facebook: @solveteachingdilemmas and her websites: briannalkennedy.com & www.gla.ac.uk/schools/education/staff/briannalkennedy/

Cracking persistent classroom dilemmas with Professor Brianna Kennedy


Carl Hooker brings us a live podcast from the ISTE+ASCD conference in San Antonio, Texas. He connects with conference attendees, friends old and new, asking each to share a problem they're working to solve in their corner of the education world — or, as Carl puts it: “Tell me your idea spark."

In this episode, Carl sits down with Barbara Bray, an author, speaker, podcaster, coach, story weaver, and difference-maker who is passionate about transforming teaching and learning. 

This episode of The Idea Spark is brought to you by EdSurge Solutions Studio.


Live from ISTE+ASCD with Barbara Bray

Carl Hooker brings us a live podcast from the ISTE+ASCD conference in San Antonio, Texas. He connects with conference attendees, friends old and new, asking each to share a problem they're working to solve in their corner of the education world — or, as Carl puts it: “Tell me your idea spark."

In this episode, Carl sits down with Peggy Hammond. She teaches technical theater at the Alabama School of Fine Arts.She has an innovative idea for a live podcast of her own! 

This episode of The Idea Spark is brought to you by EdSurge Solutions Studio.


Live from ISTE+ASCD with Peggy Hammond

For students, a sizeable chunk of their school day is spent at lunch and recess, in the playground and recreation spaces, and outdoor learning areas. So, on this episode we're joined by Dr Fatemeh Aminpour, who is a Research Fellow at the City Futures Research Centre at the University of New South Wales (that’s UNSW Sydney). We’ll be looking at this from the students’ perspective – talking about what works well for children in different situations and how schools can look at those small incremental changes to make better use of what they’ve got. 
Host: Jo Earp
Guest: Dr Fatemeh Aminpour

Play spaces with Dr Fatemeh Aminpour

Hear how communities across education and research are bringing people together to share and learn.

We cover learning and teaching, adapting to AI, accessibility, licensing and much more.

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