Available to Advance HE Members only. Designed for the Australasia region.
Higher education in Australasia faces unique challenges – from evolving student needs to new regulatory pressures. Elevate Australasia addresses this by providing regionally-contextualised support designed for your institutional context.
Through our Spotlight Series, you’ll engage with core educational themes like assessment and internationalisation. Our Digital Showcase celebrates local teaching innovations, while our Principal Fellowship Network connects strategic leaders across the region. We’re not just adapting overseas frameworks – we’re translating proven Student Success strategies specifically for the Australasian context, giving you practical tools that align with PSF dimensions and support both your professional growth and student outcomes in our Elevate Pathway
Call for submissions is now open to enter. We invite submissions of case studies to be publicised in our Digital Showcase Publication. Available exclusively to Advance HE Members in Australasia.
Spotlight sessions and Translating Student Success Framework events are now open for booking, designed to focus on challenges in the Australasia region, they are accessible to all Advance HE Members.
Why join Elevate Australasia?
Align your work with the Professional Standards Framework and gain sector-wide recognition for your teaching excellence.
Connect with educators across technological universities, research-intensive institutions and further education providers.
Learn from diverse teaching practices and discover new approaches to enhance your own educational impact.
Build your professional profile and create opportunities for collaboration and advancement across Australasia.
Project highlights
Spotlight Series – Join two dynamic 90-minute online sessions from April 2025 to May 2025. Share your innovative teaching practices with peers across Australasia, learn from diverse case studies, and gain valuable insights from student perspectives.The region’s most impactful teaching practices, with international recognition for top contributors.
Digital Showcase – is a curated publication that highlights innovative teaching practices from across the region. The initiative celebrates excellence and provides a platform for educators to share their work with the broader sector.
The Principal Fellowship Network is an exclusive forum created in response to regional demand to connect strategic teaching leaders. The online meeting provides a platform for collaboration with senior colleagues, opportunities to share and learn best practices and network with peers.
Elevate Pathways offers three online events focused on translating Advance HE’s Student Success Frameworks into the Australasian context. The sessions use personas and co-designed activities to help participants explore how the frameworks can be applied in their local institutional setting.
Call for Submissions
Before you begin, please take a moment to review the submission criteria outlined in the documentation below. Understanding these guidelines will help ensure your submission meets all requirements.
Advance HE’s Elevate Australasia series supports member institutions across Australasia in spotlighting impactful initiatives and advancing educational excellence. Sharing good practice and learning from experience are central to this work.
We invite submissions of short case studies that showcase recent practice aligned with the Professional Standards Framework (PSF) and one of our listed themes. These will be featured in our Excellence Showcase digital publication, and we will invite selected authors to present their case studies in one of three online ‘spotlight’ sessions across the region.
Deadline for submissions is on 6 March 2026.
Want to know more? Download the guide
Project timeline
- November 2025 – Call for participation opens – submit your interest and showcase submissions
- 5 March 2026 – Principal Fellowship Network inaugural meeting
- Spotlight series
- Translating Student Success Frameworks events will run from March to May.
- June 2026 – Digital Showcase publication launched (TBC)
- 23 April and 21 May 2026 – Elevate Pathways: Translating Student Success Frameworks workshops
Spotlight events
Spotlight event 1
Date: 15 April 2026
Time: UK 06:00, Sydney 15:00 and Perth 13:00
Spotlight event 2
Date: 12 May 2026
Time: UK 06:00, Sydney 15:00 and Perth 13:00
Translating Student Success Frameworks events
Event 1
Date: 12 March 2026
Time: UK 02:00, Sydney 13:00 and Perth 13:00
Event 2
Date: 23 April 2026
Time: UK 06:00, Sydney 15:00 and Perth 13:00
Event 3
Date: 28 May 2026
Time: UK 06:00, Sydney 15:00 and Perth 13:00
For an academic in Australasia, Elevate gives you what you have been looking for – practical, regionally-relevant professional development that actually connects to your teaching challenges.
Fiona Whittenbury – Head of Partnerships (Australasia) – Advance HE
You get access to proven Student Success strategies translated for your institution, plus a real community of Principal Fellows who understand the unique pressures you are facing. It’s support that recognises your expertise while helping you grow, with clear pathways that align with PSF dimensions and support your career progression.
