Talking Learning and Teaching Podcast Episode 21: The Pracademic with Di Turgoose

Dr Merry poses a number of questions for his guest Di Turgoose. These include: What is a pracademic, and what makes a pracademic different to a traditional academic? ; Why is Pracademia of interest? ; Why of interest now?; What value does pracademia bring to HE? Why is it worthy in the HE environment?; Are there particular skills or experiences that pracademics have that academics don’t/; As a self-confessed pracademic, how would you define your professional identity? For example, if you could characterise your identity as an HE practitioner, what would that look like?; How can HEI’s harness pracademics’ expertise? ; What does the future of pracademia and HE look like? Will we see a continued proliferation of pracademics in our institutions and if we do, what will our HE programmes look like in say 20 years’ time?