Third Space Perspectives - Exploring Integrated Practice - About

This blog site has been established to capture perspectives on third space working and integrated practice in Higher Education. It follows on from the edited collection on integrated practice, edited by Emily McIntosh and Diane Nutt, and published in the Spring of 2022.

Dr Emily McIntosh is Director of Learning, Teaching and Student Experience at Middlesex University, London. Emily’s role at Middlesex involves cross institutional leadership for learning and teaching, including student transition, technology enhanced learning (TEL), academic practice, equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), academic advising, and student engagement.  Emily is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA) and a National Teaching Fellow (NTF).  She is a member of the Executive Board and Trustee of the Heads of Educational Development Group (HEDG) and is also Academic Board Member of the NACADA Center for Research at Kansas State University, United States.  Emily has always had a keen interest in blended and third space working and has published monographs, chapters and articles on a wide variety of topics from personal tutoring and peer learning to integrated practice.  Emily is co-editor of the recently published monograph The Impact of the Integrated Practitioner in Higher Education (Routledge, 2022).  She is on twitter: @emilythemac.

Dr Diane Nutt (PFHEA) is an Independent HE Consultant based in York, UK. Diane established the European First Year Experience Network and Annual Conference Series in 2006. She was chair of the network and organising committee until 2021.  She is also on the International Advisory Board for the USA National Resource Center for First Year Experience and Students in Transition. She has been a bookseller, a Sociology lecturer, an educational developer and head of a student retention team. In 2015 she set up as an independent HE consultant, often describing herself as having two heads: one focused on student first year experiences and transitions; the other directing her passion for career development for staff working in higher education in a variety of roles spanning academic, professional and third space settings. Diane has published a number of books and articles on student transitions and staff development including: Bonne & Nutt (2016) Ten Times the First Year: Reflections on Ten Years of the European First Year Experience, Calderon & Nutt (2009) International Perspectives on the First Year Experience in Higher Education,  and Nutt (2017) Developing Lecturers to Teach and Support First Year Students and Students in Transition in Middle and Northern Europe (Educational Developments).  Diane is co-editor of the recently published monograph The Impact of the Integrated Practitioner in Higher Education (Routledge, 2022). Diane is on twitter: @dixxyd

To purchase a copy of our book, Integrated Practice in Higher Education: Studies in Third Space Professionalism (Routledge, 2022), please visit the Routledge website: https://www.routledge.com/The-Impact-of-the-Integrated-Practitioner-in-Higher-Education-Studies-in/McIntosh-Nutt/p/book/9780367480011