Are you an effective and inclusive educator or leader of teaching and learning at UTS? Do you bring a scholarly and evidence-based approach to your teaching and/or support of quality student learning? Would you like to receive international recognition of your educational practice and contribute to the recognition of your peers?
If so, we invite you to join us at one of the upcoming Information Sessions for the UTS Educational Fellowship Program. This program is accredited with AdvanceHE and offers UTS staff (academic and professional) with a supported pathway towards international recognition of professional, effective and inclusive teaching and support of learning, aligned to the internationally benchmarked Professional Standards Framework (PSF2023).
What’s involved?
The Fellowship Program includes workshops, online resources, writing sessions, mentoring and personalised feedback to ensure you have the best chance of submitting a successful Fellowship application. This is not a competitive process like Awards, but a criterion-based program – if you meet the criteria, you are awarded Fellowship.
You may choose to apply for Associate Fellowship, Fellowship or Senior Fellowship depending on the scope of your work. The Program has two intakes per year – Autumn and Spring – and acceptance into the Program is through an EOI process that will be further explained in the Information Session.
For the Autumn 2026 intake, register for one of the following Information Sessions:
- Monday, 2 February 2026: 10.30am-12.00pm
- Friday, 6 February 2026: 12.30pm-2.00pm
If you’d like to find out more before the sessions, visit the UTS Educational Fellowship Program Sharepoint site.
The Fellowship application experience
Fellowship is as much about the journey and experience as it is about the eventual outcome. Our growing Fellowship community has been sharing their reflections on the process to help others understand what’s involved, whether you’re an applicant, a mentor or a reviewer.
In our short series of Q&As you can hear from Amanda Lizier (Senior Fellow), Helena Robinson (Fellow), Yvonne Davila (Senior Fellow) and Keith Heggart (Senior Fellow) about their application journeys, as well as Daniela Spanjaard (Senior Fellow) and Guien Miao (Senior Fellow) about their reasons for mentoring and advice for future mentors. Marco Antic also shares his experiences using AI to support the writing process, with some thoughtful reflections about where it helped most.
You’ll find a regularly updated list of current UTS Fellows on Sharepoint – if you have been awarded Fellowship but don’t see your name there, please let us know. As our program continues, keep an eye out in the coming months for further announcements of our successful Associate Fellows, Fellows and Senior Fellows from the 2025 Spring applicants. And if you’d like to be part of the next cohort, we’d love to see you at one the upcoming information sessions!