And just like that… we have our last SoTL Roundup of 2025! For the last time this year, I’ll be scrolling through Journal of Political Studies Education, Politics, PS: Political Science & Politics, International Studies Perspectives, and European Political Science to bring to you, beloved ALPS reader, the latest SoTL publications.
Journal of Political Science Education
Arnzen, C. J., & O’Neill, C. B. (2025). Teaching About Schooling: Integrating Education Politics into Political Science Curricula. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–20.
Atoyan, V., Hakobyan, A., Movsisyan, N., & Artashyan, A. (2025). Economic Policy and Political Science: Examining Armenian Students’ Understanding of the Intersection Between Two Fields. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–13.
Dunlop, E., & Karim, S. (2025). Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Simulation Design: Rebel Recruitment in Azura’s Civil War. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–16.
Goldsmith, L. T., & Fulco, C. (2025). The Educational Potential and Sustainability of “Asymmetrical COIL” in Middle East Politics Teaching. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–19.
Meinke, T. (2025). Using Community-Based Research to Encourage Student Engagement with Local Government. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–17.
Strachan, J. C. (2025). Why I’m Doubling Down on Deliberative Pedagogy. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–9.
Politics
Pears, L., Le Bourdon, M., Meakin, A., & Lightfoot, S. (2025). Equipping students to study the politics of global challenges: Embedding skills, belonging, employability and ‘making a difference’ in a first-year module. Politics, 0(0).
Pittoors, G. (2025). From mechanics to meaning: Designing writing assignments in political science education. Politics, 0(0).
Stiles, G., & Vickers, S. (2025). Extracting employability: Closing the widening participation gap in politics teaching through model summits? Politics, 0(0).
There is one piece of non-disciplinary SoTL that I want to share this month. One of the authors, Prof. Rose Gann (Chair of the Political Studies Association), was kind enough to come and speak to the ASPIRE Network in the first instalment of our ‘Meet the T&S Professor” event series, where we also had a chat about this work. It’s a great piece that advances thinking and conceptualisations of ‘scholarship’:
Gann, R.J., Hulme, J.A. (2025). Scholarship Reimagined: Creating the DARSHE, an Inclusive and Flexible Framework for Developing Scholarship in Higher Education. Higher Education.
There was, sadly, no new SoTL to share from PS, ISP, or EPS over the last month.
I’ll be back in the new year with more monthly SoTL roundups – watch this space to see if I’ll be square enough to post on New Year’s Day. In the meantime, hope you all have a great, well-deserved, Christmas break!