What brought us together to form a community for scholarship

What brought us together to form a community for scholarship

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We are a group of teaching-focused academics who share a passion for learning, teaching and the Scholarship of Teaching and Denim Learning (SoTL) in Higher Education (HE).In order to understand how practitioners from a diversity of backgrounds and disciplines came to be in their present LTS (Learning, Teaching & Scholarship) academic roles, we embarked on a Collaborative Autoethnography (CAE).This approach allowed us to use our personal narratives to explore what it means to be a SoTL practitioner in HE, and to analyse these narratives by using textual analysis.This paper unpacks these narratives, focusing on three themes: our rich and diverse backgrounds, influences on our routes to our current academic roles, and how we are loud and proud to be on a teaching-focused career path.

It will be of interest to academics who are on, or contemplating, a teaching focused contract.It will also be of relevance to senior staff in HE who wish to understand the nature of these roles, and Bike Units - Hardtail - Recreation who wish to consider how to provide appropriate institutional structures to support and nurture these staff.