95. Britta Piel, Richard Delahaye, Ceren Genc, Sabine Sainte-Rose, Kimmo Kuortti: Learning from failure, leveraging community Artwork

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95. Britta Piel, Richard Delahaye, Ceren Genc, Sabine Sainte-Rose, Kimmo Kuortti: Learning from failure, leveraging community

October 02, 2024 • Season 1 • Episode 95

Within the international higher education community, we see the celebration of achievements regularly. Successfully launching a new research project, reaching a milestone number of international students accepted and signing a new partnership. But what about learning from our failures? We tend not to share the lessons learned from a programme that failed or a collaboration gone wrong, while in some cases, there might be even more to learn than from our success stories.

In this podcast episode, host Laura Rumbley dives into learning from failure. How can we learn to embrace the willingness to make mistakes and leverage our community along the way? Laura is joined by five experienced IHE professionals from across Europe, all willing to share their experience with failure. Britta Piel, Richard Delahaye, Ceren Genc, Sabine Sainte-Rose and Kimmo Kuortti discuss what can be gained from talking about failure, how to pick ourselves up after a setback, and what wisdom can be shared with other colleagues.

About Richard Delahaye
Richard Delahaye currently acts as the University of East Anglia's School Manager for Politics, Philosophy and Area Studies and also the Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities.

About Ceren Genc
Ceren Genc is the Team Leader for International Student Admissions at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

About Sabine Sainte-Rose
Sabine Sainte-Rose is the Director of the Aurora European University Alliance Programme.

About Kimmo Kuortti
Kimmo Kuortti is Head of Global Education Solutions at the Oulu University of Applied Sciences, Finland.

Additional resources
For further insights into the topics touched on in this episode, the following resources may be of interest:
→ Helping students overcome their fear of failure
→ How Failing Well Can Help Companies Thrive
→ The CV of Failures
→ Robert Biswas-Diener - A Positive Look at Failure
→ Sanna Wenström - Do you work on your power zone?