ABOUT
The Hub provides a welcoming and collaborative space for colleagues to explore, discuss, and develop teaching and learning practices within the School.
The Hub objectives:
- To foster and support the professional development and teaching practice of colleagues throughout the School, particularly those on LTS contracts and new, inexperienced, or more junior faculty colleagues (such as Postgraduate Researchers and Graduate Teaching Assistants)
- To create a space for discussion among colleagues on how best to approach teaching and learning in the School
- To demonstrate, share, and promote the use of the innovative teaching methods and practices being undertaken at Glasgow and elsewhere
- To facilitate and support colleagues to develop their ideas regarding new courses, assessment methods, pedagogical approaches, technologies, and/or their strategies regarding developments in higher education

Innovative Pedagogy Hub
The School of Social & Political Sciences Innovative Pedagogy Hub brings together all who are interested in learning and teaching practice.
Staff
Publications
2026
Misic, G., Sprenger, C., Avarucci, M. (2026) Take a minute: facilitating teamworking skills development [blog post]
Morrison, J., Shafi, J. (2026) The Crisis in Scottish Universities: An interview with Dr Jenny Morrison [blog post]
Toomey, M., Parker, J. (2026) The Shared Universe Simulation: Cross-subject simulation design and delivery.
Mukwashi, T., Lowton, Z. (2026) Why Global Collaboration Matters in Higher Education [blog post]
Morrison, J. (2026) Serious Play: Board Games as Pedagogical Tools (2) - Class Struggle.
Tsafos, Y. D., Ramanan, S., Cheng, W., Misic, G., Selvaretnam, G. (2026) Generative AI in Collaborative Learning: Evidence from a Classroom Case Study. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice,
Morrison, J., Bratton, J. (2026) Power and leadership. SAGE Publications
Toomey, M. (2026) Serious Play: Board Games as Pedagogical Tools (1)- Tammany Hall.
Lowton, Z. (2026) Urban transformation initiatives in Johannesburg and public space user perceptions. Cities, 168, (doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106436)
2025
Toomey, M. (2025) Vulnerability and empathy in university teaching: framing the empowered classroom. Journal of Education on the Margins, 1, pp. 39-48. (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18018170)
Cassie, N., Loader, M. (2025) Roundtable: Innovative Approaches to Teaching Soviet and Eurasian History.
Cawley, F., Cook, V., Hay, K. (2025) Reflecting on 'true collaboration' [blog post]
Tsafos, Y., Ramanan, S., Cheng, W., Misic, G., Selvaretnam, G. (2025) Impact of Generative AI on student engagement in diverse groups. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 37, (doi: 10.47408/jldhe.vi37.1718)
Cook, V., Cawley, F. (2025) Transition to active learning: introducing widening participation students to active learning. Open Press University of Sussex
Toomey, M. (2025) European Union Enlargement and Democratisation: The Normative Disconnect in Hungary and Czechia. Edinburgh University Press
Miller, C., Morrison, J. (2025) Feminist pedagogy within constraints: teaching reflective writing in a UK higher education institution. Gender and Education, 37, pp. 653-669. (doi: 10.1080/09540253.2025.2508761)
Cassie, N. (2025) Narratives in East Asia and Beyond. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Using Narratives as a Research Method. Europe-Asia Studies, 77, pp. 838-839. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2025.2504756)
Cawley, F., Cook, V. (2025) In Pursuit of a Successful Student Experience: Increasing Academic Staff Engagement.
Cook, V. (2025) Why Become an Undergraduate History Student in the Social Sciences? Reflecting on Recruitment in Economic and Social History.
Cawley, F., Cook, V., Hay, K. (2025) ‘True’ Collaboration? Navigating Collective Leadership, Co-creation, and Professional Development of Staff in an Undergraduate Team-taught Honours Course.
Misic, G., Ramanan, S., Tsafos, Y. D. (2025) Assessment Innovation Through Programme Redesign.
Morrison, J., Cook, V., Cassie, N. (2025) What is the LTS Job Role? Pursuing Careers in Learning and Teaching.
Featherstone, D., Morrison, J., Gibbs, E. (2025) Editorial: Challenging authoritarian political cultures. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 2025, pp. 4-15. (doi: 10.3898/SOUN:89.EDITORIAL.2025)
Tsafos, Y. D., Ramanan, S., Cheng, W., Misic, G., Selvaretnam, G. (2025) Impact of Generative AI on Student Engagement in Diverse Groups.
Cassie, N. (2025) Beyond the Wall. East Germany, 1949–1990. Europe-Asia Studies, 77, pp. 167-168. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2024.2437311)
Lowton, Z., Shukla, S. (2025) Vlog: Transnational Campus Conversations: Building Bridges Between Culture and Identity.
2024
Alibegović, J., Misic, G. (2024) Mišić: Vidljiv odmak od tradicionalnog pristupa učenju, no put je dug. AlJazeera Balkans,
Morrison, J., Judge, A. (2024) Practices of ECI mentoring in a marketized higher education sector. Palgrave Macmillan
Cassie, N., Loader, M. (2024) Using Active Learning to Evaluate Brezhnev's Legacy in the Classroom.
Cawley, F., Cook, V. (2024) ‘Tea and Pedagogy’: Graduate Teaching Assistant-staff support network in learning and teaching practice. Postgraduate Pedagogies, 4, pp. 296-312.
Tsitsou, L. (2024) Deconstructing giftedness: a relational analysis of the make-up of talent in theatrical dance. Sociological Review, 72, pp. 789-807. (doi: 10.1177/00380261241258588)
Morrison, J. (2024) Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum? Embedding academic literacies in an undergraduate social sciences degree.
Dorner, H., Misic, G. (2024) Recognising teaching excellence in research universities: International examples and lessons for organizational learning. Educatio, 33, pp. 222-233. (doi: 10.1556/2063.33.2024.2.10)
2023
Toomey, M., Shepherd, A. J.K. (2023) "Cultural trauma, populist grand narratives, and Brexit" Global Studies Quarterly, 3, (doi: 10.1093/isagsq/ksad055)
Cook, V. (2023) “It Takes Two, Baby” – Accessing Male Infertility Clinics in Britain During the Late c. 1950 to 1974.
Morrison, J., Gibbs, E. (2023) Feminist institutionalism and women’s political leadership in devolution era Scotland. British Politics, 18, pp. 384-400. (doi: 10.1057/s41293-021-00197-1)
Misic, G., Rymarenko, M. (2023) Facilitating a SOTL Community of Practice for Teaching in a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom.
Tsitsou, L. (2023) Audience engagement with foreign to English language film, othering, and interpretative frameworks. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 19, pp. 245-265.
Wessels, B., Tsitsou, L. (2023) Editor's introduction: The dynamics of film audiences: how they form and develop relationships with film. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 19, pp. 201-206.
(2023) The Dynamics of Film Audiences: How They Form and Develop Relationships with Film. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 19,
Toomey, M. (2023) Rebuilding European democracy: resistance and renewal in an illiberal age. Irish Political Studies, 38, pp. 156-158. (doi: 10.1080/07907184.2022.2057764)
2022
Morrison, J., Gibbs, E. (2022) Women's Political Leadership in Scotland: Successes and Failures.
Misic, G. (2022) Facilitating a SOTL Community of Practice for Teaching in a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom.
Hajdinjak, S., Misic, G., Kolarić, T. (2022) Political (dis) trust in Central Europe: mechanisms and regional variation. Brill
Alexander, K., Morrison, J. (2022) Towards Gender Justice in Scotland. Scottish Left Review, 129, pp. 7-8.
Alexander, K., Morrison, J. (2022) Towards gender justice: enhancing participation, reimagining economics and ending gender-based violence. Pluto Press
Sedgwick, C., Tsitsou, L. (2022) Doing online collaborative auto-ethnography during the pandemic to research academic precarity. SAGE
Misic, G. (2022) Assessment flexibility and student-led case-teaching: enhancing learning in an international classroom. Delft University of Technology
(2022) The Formation of Film Audiences: Conference Proceedings.
2021
Tsitsou, L. (2021) The impact of COVID-19 on freelance contemporary dance work: Precarity and the vulnerabilities of the dancing body. Routledge
Morrison, J. (2021) Invoking intersectionality: discursive mobilisations in feminism of the radical left. Social Movement Studies, 20, pp. 635-651. (doi: 10.1080/14742837.2020.1858779)
Misic, G., Rymarenko, M., Dorner, H. (2021) Becoming a teacher in higher education: creating an academic development program to catalyse doctoral students' professionalization. Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 11, pp. 246-253. (doi: 10.1556/063.2021.00068)
Dorner, H., Misic, G., Rymarenko, M. (2021) Online mentoring for academic practice: strategies, implications, and innovations. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1483, pp. 98-111. (doi: 10.1111/nyas.14301)
Tsitsou, L., Sedgwick, C. (2021) Between and Betwixt: Experiences of Academic Precarity and Resistance During COVID-19 Pandemic.
2020
Toomey, M., Zhou, X., Yan, X. (2020) Examining the effectiveness of using role-play simulations with chinese students in China. International Studies Perspectives, 21, pp. 363-378. (doi: 10.1093/isp/ekz014)
2019
Alexander, K., Eschle, C., Morrison, J., Tulbure, M. (2019) Feminism and solidarity on the left: rethinking the unhappy marriage metaphor. Political Studies, 67, pp. 972-991. (doi: 10.1177/0032321718817479)
Misic, G., Rymarenko, M. (2019) Supporting Doctoral Candidates as Early Career Teachers: Addressing Teaching Challenges Through Design.
Morrison, J. (2019) Feminist Politics and the Architecture of Devolution.
Misic, G. (2019) The regulation of post-communist party politics. East European Politics, 35, pp. 111-113. (doi: 10.1080/21599165.2019.1570141)
2018
Cook, V. (2018) Analysing Silences: Accessing Men’s Emotions Towards Childlessness During the 1960s and 1970s.
Cassie, N. (2018) 'There were no women in Vietnam': Remembering the Combat Nurses Who Served During the Vietnam War.
Toomey, M. (2018) History, nationalism, and democracy: myth and narrative in Viktor Orbán’s ‘Illiberal Hungary’ New Perspectives, 26, pp. 87-108. (doi: 10.1177/2336825x1802600110)
2017
Jamieson, D., Morrison, J. (2017) Catalonia Interview with Jenny Morrison.
Cassie, N. (2017) Book Review: Working in a World of Hurt: Trauma and Resilience in the Narratives of Medical Personnel in Warzones by Carol Acton and Jane Potter. War in History, 24, pp. 396-398. (doi: 10.1177/0968344517707285e)
Tsitsou, L. (2017) Ethics as social justice research: co-review essay. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 20, pp. 311-315. (doi: 10.1080/13645579.2017.1291132)