ALT IJAD logo and a quote from an Editorial by Anna Santucci, Tracy Zou & Roeland van der Rijst: "As we engage in collegial dialogue across international contexts in IJAD, we share a mutual commitment to interpret and translate, with and for each other, across borders. We hence commit to exercising our ability to see, articulate, and appreciate why and how context, positionality, and interrelatedness matter in our work."

ALT IJAD logo and a quote from an article by Mary Wilson & Celia Popovic: "This article assesses the basis of trust in academic development as it relates to the current standing of academic development as a profession against established, distinguishing criteria of professions. The article identifies opportunities for academic development to deepen its status as a profession.”

ALT IJAD logo and a quote from a Reflection on Practice by Eli Rudinow Saetnan: "In this brief reflection, I discuss how trust is integral to our approach to academic development. The value of engaging with an academic development programme is not only gained knowledge and skills of academic practice and increased trust in self and being trusted as an expert in return."

ALT IJAD logo and a quote from an Editorial by Tansy Jessop & Klara Bolander Laksov: "This issue of IJAD is grist to the mill for those looking for a less celebratory and more critical discourse of academic development."

ALT IJAD logo and a quote from a Reflection on Practice by Yoko Mori: "I reflect on the significance of trust in Academic Development (AD) and outline strategies for cultivating it with other academics. Within many higher education institutions, the inherent uncertainty of the AD role necessitates intentional trust-building efforts."

ALT IJAD logo and a quote from an article by Nicola Reimann, Taha Rajab, Teti Dragas, Julie Rattray & Malcolm Murray: "This paper arose from the authors’ experience of facilitating collective reflection on higher education teaching using the ‘intercultural teaching process recall’ (iTPR) method. Facilitators’ contributions to the iTPR sessions were analysed empirically."

ALT IJAD logo and a quote from an article by Jaclyn Carter, Patti Dyjur & Kimberley A. Grant: "Here, we reflect specifically on the relationship between academic developers (ADs) and faculty groups, consider how we as ADs aim to build rapport and trust when supporting groups with their curriculum reviews, and identify some key challenges and advantages that emerge from this context."

ALT IJAD logo and a quote from an article by by A. M. Lee & K. Ragupathi: "Our findings reveal that trust is built and sustained by establishing credibility, developing identity, and adding value. We share the approaches taken that made the programme more credible and valuable, and the emphasis placed on developing participants’ academic identity."

ALT IJAD logo and a quote from an article by Leoniek Wijngaards-de Meij & Sigrid Merx: "We argue for the importance of the visibility of learning trajectories across the curriculum and discuss the implementation of a digital curriculum mapping tool."

ALT IJAD logo and a quote from a Reflection on Practice by Conor West: "This paper explores how motivational theories can be utilised to direct impactful conversations for the support of teaching excellence awards (TEAs). The purpose of applying a motivational lens to TEA conversations is to foster positive motivational conditions for award applicants."

ALT IJAD logo and a quote from an article by Bushra Jaleel, Stephanie Horsley & Melanie-Anne Atkins: 'This paper presents a conceptual model created using an integrative literature review to illustrate how instructional choices made during the design and teaching phases of online courses may impact students’ academic thriving.'

ALT IJAD logo and a quote from an article by Lindsay Shaw, Hannah MacDougall, Lori Goff, Donna Ellis, Erika Kustra, Madelyn P. Law & Lynn Taylor: "This paper describes how an Institutional Teaching Culture framework based on six well-researched levers was applied to analyze strategic documents for indicators of teaching culture."

ALT IJAD logo and a quote from an article by Laura A. Lukes, Sophia Abbot, Dayna Henry, Melissa Wells, Liesl Baum, Kim Case, Edward J. Brantmeier & Lindsay Wheeler: "To leverage the knowledge and experience of developers leading SoTL efforts at their respective institutions, a group of academic developers co-created a regional community of practice (CoP) centered on developing evidence-based strategic plans and programming models to advance SoTL."

ALT IJAD logo and a quote from an article by Jenny Lawrence, Lesley J. Morrell & Graham W. Scott: "Here we adopt a positive approach by undertaking an Appreciative Inquiry with programme leaders to understand their development needs. Our work identifies domains of reward and responsibility intrinsic to the programme leader role."

ALT IJAD logo and a quote from an article by Vincent Crone, Frans Prins, Christel Lutz, Irma Meijerman, Veronique Schutjens, Maarten van der Smagt, Leoniek Wijngaards-de Meij, Niels Bovenschen & Manon Kluijtmans: "In this paper, we describe the underlying mechanisms that both facilitate and limit the formation of successful educational leadership of participants of the ‘Senior Fellow Programme’: a professional development programme in conjunction with a career track leading up to a teaching-focused full professorship."

ALT IJAD logo and a quote from an article by N. Godbold, K. E. Matthews & D. Gannaway: "This study outlines an approach that captures the messy landscape of the learning opportunities on which teaching focused academics draw. The Activity Centred Analysis and Design framework was employed to analyse data from a focused ethnographic study of seven TFAs in a research-intensive university."

ALT IJAD logo and a call for contributions for a Special Issue on 'Educational leadership of, for, with, and through academic development'

ALT IJAD logo and a quote from an article by Dewa Wardak, Elaine Huber & Sandris Zeivots: "Our study asked business academics a typical phenomenographic question: what does professional learning and development mean to you? Our participants conceptualised it in four qualitatively different ways: continual growth mindset; student-centric mindset; knowledge-sharing mindset; and purpose-oriented mindset."

ALT IJAD logo and a quote from a reflection on practice by Phuc Diem Le & Karen Benson: "Critical reflection is pivotal for enhancing practice in peer observation of teaching (POT). Our analysis of educators’ reflections in a developmental POT program revealed a deficiency in the level of critical reflection."

ALT IJAD logo and a quote from an article by Xiangyun Du, Juebei Chen, Nikolaj Stegeager, Trine Lindvig Thomsen, Aida Guerra, Patrik Kristoffer Kjærsdam Telléus & Line Bune Juhl: "The study explored the viewpoints of two groups of mentors – subject and pedagogy – on their roles in a 12-month problem-based learning (PBL) academic development program at a Danish university."