Rachel Forsyth

About

I have worked in academic development since 1989. My research interests focus on institutional change in higher education, particularly in relation to inclusive learning communities, trust, and assessment, and I am author of Confident Assessment in Higher Education, published by Sage in 2022. The impact of GenAI on learning, teaching, and assessment is now a key part of my work. I am a Principal Fellow and an Associate of Advance HE and have worked since 2017 on the UK Degree Standards Project, which was funded by the Office for Students and is exploring sector-owned processes focusing on professional development for external examiners.

Work

Lund University

Sweden

Lund University
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Senior Pedagogisk Utvecklare

Sweden

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Lund University
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Projektledare

Sweden

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Manchester Metropolitan University
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Head

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Manchester Metropolitan University
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Associate Head

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Manchester Metropolitan University
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Principal lecturer in Curriculum Development

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Manchester Metropolitan University
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Senior Fellow in Higher Education

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Education

Keele University
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

PhD

Publications

Engineering students trust teachers who ask, listen, and respond

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International Journal for Academic Development

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Facilitating conversations about race

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International Journal for Academic Development

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Learning and Teaching with AI

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Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning

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Trust-building as inherent to academic development practice

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International Journal for Academic Development

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Superficially Plausible Outputs from a Black Box: Problematising GenAI Tools for Analysing Qualitative SoTL Data

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Teaching and Learning Inquiry

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Superficially Plausible Outputs from a Black Box

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Teaching and Learning Inquiry

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Implementing Electronic Management of Assessment and Feedback in Higher Education

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Research Handbook on Innovations in Assessment and Feedback in Higher Education

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Taking a long view towards quality improvement

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Quality in Higher Education

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The role of internal and external moderation for assuring academic standards

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Academic Standards in Higher Education

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Working towards the inclusive campus

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The Bloomsbury International Handbook of Student Voice in Higher Education

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Expressions of Trust

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Teaching and Learning Inquiry

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Facilitating conversations about race: staff views on the importance of accountability and trust in a student-led project

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International Journal for Academic Development

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Expressions of Trust: How University STEM Teachers Describe the Role of Trust in their Teaching

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Teaching and Learning Inquiry

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Designing and developing the Professional Development Course for External Examiners

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Academic Standards in Higher Education

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Enhancing Assessment: A Practitioner Guide

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Practitioner Guides

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Generative AI and the implications for authentic assessment

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Using Generative AI Effectively in Higher Education

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Building Trust in the Classroom: A Conceptual Model for Teachers, Scholars, and Academic Developers in Higher Education

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Teaching and Learning Inquiry

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Building Trust in the Classroom

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Teaching and Learning Inquiry

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Working towards the Inclusive Campus: A Partnership Project with Students of Colour in a University Reform Initiative

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Student Voice in Higher Education

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Confident Assessment in Higher Education

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Shape-shifting and pushing against the odds

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Australian Educational Researcher

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Shape-shifting and pushing against the odds: staff perceptions of the experiences of first generation students in South Africa and the UK

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Australian Educational Researcher

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Confident Assessment in Higher Education

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Understanding and defining programme leadership in a large institution

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Supporting Course and Programme Leaders in Higher Education

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Understanding and defining programme leadership in a large institution

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Supporting Course and Programme Leaders in Higher Education: Practical Wisdom for Leaders, Educational Developers and Programme Leaders

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Challenging the deficit discourse: Insight from university staff about first-generation students in South Africa and the United Kingdom

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Knowledge beyond colour lines: Towards repurposing knowledge generation in South African higher education

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Challenging the deficit discourse: Insight from university staff about first-generation students in South Africa and the United Kingdom

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Knowledge beyond colour lines: Towards repurposing knowledge generation in South African higher education

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Myths and legends

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Delivering Educational Change in Higher Education

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Myths and legends: Changing assessment procedures and practices

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Delivering Educational Change in Higher Education: A Transformative Approach for Leaders and Practitioners

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The wicked problem of healthcare student attrition

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Nursing Inquiry

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The wicked problem of healthcare student attrition

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Nursing Inquiry

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Global citizenship education-Assessing the unassessable?

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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Citizenship and Education

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Global citizenship education-Assessing the unassessable?

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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Citizenship and Education

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Transitions of First Generation Students to Higher Education in the UK

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Understanding Experiences of First Generation University Students: Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Methodologies

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Transitions of First Generation Students to Higher Education in the UK

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Understanding Experiences of First Generation University Students

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The potential of student narratives to enhance quality in higher education

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Quality in Higher Education

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The potential of student narratives to enhance quality in higher education

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Quality in Higher Education

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The potential of student narratives to enhance quality in higher education

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Quality in Higher Education

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Identifying needs and opportunities for academic development

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Advancing Practice in Academic Development

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Identifying needs and opportunities for academic development

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Advancing Practice in Academic Development

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EQAL to the task: stakeholder responses to a university-wide transformation project.

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The Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change

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Supporting the development of assessment literacy of staff through institutional process change

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London Review of Education

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Supporting the development of assessment literacy of staff through institutional process change

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London Review of Education

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The Right to Higher Education: Beyond Widening Participation

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Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning

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Contexts and concepts

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New Traditional Games for Learning

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Contexts and concepts: Crafty ways to consider challenging topics

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New Traditional Games for Learning: A Case Book

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Designing games to disseminate research findings

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7th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2013

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conference-paper

Designing games to disseminate research findings

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7th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2013

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Accreditation! the responsive curriculum game

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Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2011

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Accreditation! the responsive curriculum game

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Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning

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Supporting e-learning: an overview of the needs of users

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New Review of Academic Librarianship

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Supporting e-learning

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New Review of Academic Librarianship

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Supporting e-learning: an overview of the needs of users

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New Review of Academic Librarianship

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Making professional development flexible: A case study

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Open Learning

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Making Professional Development Flexible: A case study

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Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning

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Making professional development flexible

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Open Learning

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