Academic Practice Reading

  We are delighted to announce that Issue 21 of the Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education has now been released and is free to access here: https://journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jldhe/index . What a fabulous reading for a rainy Thursday afternoon!   Like many other colleagues, we felt that September 2021 arrived out of nowhere, bringing with it unresolved uncertainties of the new academic year, and with it, we re-entered a 'new normal' in higher education. The 'postpandemic' university did not materialise and conversations around teaching in person versus online, blended or hybrid, in masks or socially distanced, still dominate our planning and delivery design. Our readers might therefore find it comforting that the conversations in this issue of our journal include both pre-Covid and pandemic-centred analyses, with most articles still reporting on the past world some of us long for and which does not rush to come back. Our next issue, the