The Experience Effect

In this episode of The Experience Effect, hosts Anna and Imogen sit down with PhD researcher Josh Salter, whose research investigates how socioeconomic inequality is lived through assessment practices in higher education. Josh's work centres the student experience across time, asking how repeated encounters with assessment shape the trajectories of students in UK higher education.
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Join hosts Anna and Imogen as they chat to Dr. Ben Chong, a lecturer in Electronic and Electrical Engineering and Academic Lead for Reflective Practice at the University of Leeds.
In this episode, Ben provides his insight as someone at the forefront of embedding reflection into higher education, and shares tips for facilitating authentic, genuine and creative reflection. We discuss the need to critically reflect throughout experiential learning projects, the positive impact which reflection has on students, and how collaboration is essential to encourage reflection in higher education. 

Join your hosts Imogen and Anna as they lead a panel of students, academics, and industry partners to discuss the Leeds University Business School module 'Innovation Thinking and Practice,' which teaches interdisciplinary and team-based innovation.
The panel features Tony Morgan, Associate Professor in Innovation and Management, three students Maya, Leyna and Nathan, who have successfully completed the module, and Rob Lawrence, Head of Market Strategy and Innovation at Lambson Innovate, who participated in the module. 
Within this module, the panel collaborated on a real-life innovation challenge to develop their skills in collaboration and reflexivity. In this episode, we discuss the surprising strength of uncertainty, personal and professional development, and the importance of experiential learning to employers.

Join hosts Anna and Imogen in this episode of The Experience Effect, where they discuss how to optimise experiential learning in higher education internationally, with Dr. Norah McRae, former Associate Provost, Co-operative and Experiential Education at the University of Waterloo.
Throughout their conversation, they discuss topics like the UNSDG's, Ikigai, and WACE to understand how experiential learning connects education to meaning and purpose, and deepens subject knowledge. 

In this very special episode of The Experience Effect, hosts Anna and Imogen launch The Experience Effect live at the Experiential Learning Showcase 2026, taking place at the University of Leeds' Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall.
The panel is comprised of Professor Wendy Robinson, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Student Education and Experience, Professor Charlotte Haigh, Dean for Student Education, and Grace Cuthbert, a third-year student of BA Global Creative Industries who is graduating this summer with a first-class degree.
In their conversation, the panel discuss how experiential learning is embedded at scale in the Leeds curriculum and why it is so crucial to educate todays students. They discuss personal experiences, student experiences, authentic assessment, employability, inclusion, equity, and how learning by doing deepens subject knowledge and builds confidence for uncertain and precarious futures. 

Are you an educator looking to incorporate experiential learning into your teaching? Or a student curious about the way that experiential learning projects are designed?
If you are, tune into this episode of The Experience Effect, where Dr. Ellis Jones, lecturer in music and management at Leeds, gives an insight into his experience of incorporating experiential learning into his masters module How Songs Make Money.
In this episode, Ellis shares his journey with experiential learning, provides helpful tips and advice for implementing experiential learning in assessment, and reflects on module design as an iterative and dynamic process.

Join your hosts Anna and Imogen as they chat to Professor Karen Burland, the academic lead for student opportunity and futures at the University of Leeds, about the implementation of experiential learning within the curriculum. 
Within this conversation, Karen discusses how she was inspired to bring extracurricular opportunities into the curriculum, alongside other opportunities which allowed students to articulate and recognise the skills they already had. We discuss the importance of collaboration, embedding and scaling, as well as the impact that experiential learning is having on the higher education community.
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Join your hosts Imogen Walton and Anna Pramod in the first episode of The Experience Effect as they discuss the impact that experiential learning has had on their education. Imogen and Anna are both students at the University of Leeds, and have engaged with experiential learning in a diverse range of contexts.
Throughout their discussion, they explore the ways that they first engaged with experiential learning, the tangible and intangible impacts which it has had on their educational experiences, and their hopes for the future of experiential learning in higher education. 
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Welcome to The Experience Effect!
 
Listen to our trailer to discover more about experiential learning in higher education.
 
Listen to the first episode here.