By HE Professionals
For HE Professionals
In 2021, as part of our Diamond Jubilee celebrations the Board of Trustees decided to create a newsletter to bring everything in the AHEP portfolio together and Development Monthly was born. This digital newsletter aims to share the knowledge and expertise of our membership and wider community including good practice from around the sector and beyond higher education.
Our audience can expect a variety of professional development news, opinions, and insights revolving around a monthly theme whilst keeping up to date with the latest change in the HE sector. A wide breadth of contributions highlight the rich diversity of our community with videos, articles, tools, and opportunities for our readers to feed into the future of AHEP.
If you would like to join the AHEP community and enjoy the vast benefits of this network of expertise, please head over to our membership section. Contributions are always welcome so if you would like to create a video, author an article, or collaborate in some way in relation to a topic close to your heart, please contact me directly by emailing Chiara.Singh@bristol.ac.uk
Meet the Editor
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hiara is a creative collaborator, driven by equity, helping researchers to interact and engage with communities. She is based at the University of Bristol’s, Jean Golding Institute, a hub for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, developing the institute’s interdisciplinary research portfolio and providing project management.
As an Elevate programme alumni and founder of the Global Ethnic Majority STEM Network, she brings an awareness and understanding of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Chiara leads on large scale public engagement projects such as Bristol Data Week exploring the positive impacts of collaborating with communities to create more inclusive cultures. She is the Editor AHEP’s Development Monthly newsletter and participated in a study tour to Japan to learn about International research partnerships. She has a BSc in biology from Cardiff University where she studied the effect of climate change on parasites, and later completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, Management and Leadership.
She is an advocate of reflective practice and will shortly embark on a sabbatical travelling, perusing personal projects and gaining international work experience. Chiara has volunteered as a teaching assistant in Bhutan, in Mother Teresa’s home for the Sick and Dying in Kolkata, and as a gardener in Australia. She enjoys music, snorkelling, nature, and spending time with her kitties. You can connect with her through LinkedIn or @Singh_Chiara.
