TELedvisors webinar March 2025 - Working in the Higher Education Third Space

Third space practitioners working in higher education strive to enable and support better learning and teaching using their professional expertise. They can face a number of challenges in building relationships and contributing to the decision-making which directly impacts their work.

This webinar draws on two publications from the recent Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education special issue on the third space.

A narrative account of third space technology enhanced learning and teaching roles working in Australian higher education: Meredith Hinze (UniMelb) and Kashmira Dave (Uni New England) will discuss their paper exploring the nature of several key third space roles and connections between their professional identity, professional relationships and organisational context.

Institutional responsibility and third space professionals: a call for structural change to embrace ambiguity: Evonne Irwin (UniMelb) will then discuss her paper examining the need for more effective communication, inclusion, and opportunity creation for third space practitioners in higher ed.

The session will conclude with discussion of issues arising from these papers and consideration of what we can do about them.