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The Learning Development Project

In the Learning Development Project, conversation is the key to unlocking disciplinary scholarship. We interview the writers and thinkers whose work has shaped and continues to influence the Learning Development field today. Join us in discovering the people behind the ideas - because publication isn’t the end of the story.

Joy Igiebor: doing Learning Development

51 mins; March 24, 2026

Laura Dyer: humanistic pedagogies

48 mins; February 26, 2026

Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner: the social landscape of learning

76 hours 4 mins; January 29, 2026

Jason Eyre: the philosophy of Learning Development

76 hours 4 mins; December 18, 2025

Edward Venn: building a sense of belonging

69 hours 58 mins; November 28, 2025

Lisa Clughen: embodied learning for joyful learning

79 hours 17 mins; October 16, 2025

James Lang: cultivating attention

66 hours 59 mins; September 18, 2025

Lily Abadal: the value of slow thinking

60 hours 11 mins; August 22, 2025

Carina Buckley and Alicja Syska: writing as anchor

61 hours 44 mins; July 28, 2025

Sandra Abegglen: collaboration for social justice

54 mins; June 19, 2025

Karen Gravett: the value of care

53 mins; May 22, 2025

Rebecca Lindner and Martin Compton: liberating learning

75 hours 20 mins; April 24, 2025

Jennie Blake: making space for belonging

56 mins; March 20, 2025

Lucy Gill-Simmen: thoughtful learning design with AI

51 mins; February 20, 2025

Maha Bali: troubling generative AI

53 mins; January 23, 2025

Steve White: the trouble with academic literacies

61 hours 21 mins; December 12, 2024

Tom Lowe: the complexities of student engagement

58 mins; November 21, 2024

Jane McKay: tackling the destruction of perfectionism

63 hours 15 mins; October 24, 2024

Emily Danvers: critical thinking as a social act

60 hours 59 mins; September 19, 2024

Gordon Asher: in, against and beyond the neoliberal university

69 hours 59 mins; August 22, 2024

Julie Hall: taking third space centre stage

54 mins; July 18, 2024

Ryan Arthur - race consciousness in LD

71 hours 11 mins; June 13, 2024

Natalia Veles: third space in action

72 hours 30 mins; May 23, 2024

Ed Powell and Georgia Koromila: decolonising LD

69 hours 50 mins; April 18, 2024

Emily McIntosh and Diane Nutt: integrated and integrating practitioners

75 hours 21 mins; March 21, 2024

Sonia Hood: building strategic connections

57 mins; February 27, 2024

Steve Rooney: finding freedom in constraints

62 hours 52 mins; January 25, 2024

Alicja Syska and Carina Buckley: friendship through writing

67 hours 37 mins; December 14, 2023

Trevor Day: writing in the bones

80 hours 16 mins; November 23, 2023

Virna Rossi: designing for inclusive learning

74 hours 44 mins; October 23, 2023

Helen Beetham: designing for a hopeful future

64 hours 17 mins; September 26, 2023

Julian Edwards: writing as a frame for insight

57 mins; August 24, 2023

Lee Fallin: technology and its humans

70 hours 44 mins; July 20, 2023

Celia Whitchurch: locating LD in third space

64 hours 42 mins; June 22, 2023

Dave Middlebrook: Unrolling the text

51 mins; May 25, 2023

Ursula Wingate: Bringing genre pedagogies into academic literacies

51 mins; April 28, 2023

The Collaborative Writing Group: creating a writing community

68 hours 1 min; March 23, 2023

Helen Bowstead: the joy of writing

69 hours 58 mins; February 23, 2023

Amanda French: Writing in the rhizome

70 hours 22 mins; January 26, 2023

Alison James: fellow explorer and companion

79 hours 26 mins; December 14, 2022

Sunny Dhillon: pedagogies of discomfort and the neoliberal university

58 mins; November 24, 2022

Debbie Holley: equity and belonging in Learning Development

45 mins; October 27, 2022

Sandra Sinfield & Tom Burns: on the joy of being a learning developer

80 hours 12 mins; September 23, 2022

Kate Coulson: impact in LD and why it's okay to hate writing

47 mins; August 25, 2022

John Hilsdon: the origins of LD

54 mins; July 29, 2022

Podcast trailer

1 min; June 09, 2022

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