Advance HE Teaching & Learning Conference 2018: The UKPSF: Enabling engagement with academic CPD and the scholarship of teaching and learning among international staff

Effective engagement of staff with the UKPSF remains a key focus for internal recognition schemes to ensure successful demonstration of professional practice. The diverse backgrounds of staff add a further challenge to engaging and continuing with professional development and scholarship of teaching and learning beyond recognition. This session will share outcomes from a small-scale qualitative research study exploring international staff experience of claiming fellowship of the HEA. Initial findings indicate different levels of understanding of the context and objectives of the UKHE sector the UKPSF and associated CPD activities suggesting changes in institutional responses in preparing staff for teaching recognition.