Thank you for your interest in sharing your work on the Manchester Met Innovate website. Please review the submission process below and refer to the detailed guidance for your chosen submission type and format. We welcome a variety of content formats for submission. Please adhere to the following guidelines below and Manchester Met’s research and ethics guidelines, to ensure all published content safeguards participants and their data, is accessible and meets our submission requirements.
Overview of process
1. Select the format you want to submit
Written piece (500-1000 words Word document)
Digital poster (PDF)
Video (5-10 minutes)
Podcast (up to 40 minutes)
Short text to be used when sharing your post on social media
2. Prepare your content following the guidelines for your chosen format
Review the detailed requirements (explained further down this page) for your chosen format before you start creating your content.
The education strategy theme(s) your submission aligns with
Details of university development schemes you are involved in
Content upload or link
Short text to be used when sharing your post on social media
4. Check your submission for completeness and submit
Before you submit, please check that you have:
Completed all required fields in the submission form Included your title, author information, and aligned your work with at least one Education Strategy theme
Uploaded your content or provided a working link Written a short social media text (this will be used when we share your post)
Met the format requirements for your submission type (word count, file size, dimensions)
Included all accessibility materials (text versions for posters, transcripts for audio/video, accessible formatting for written pieces)
If a video – shared in a way that allows the original file to be downloaded
Used Cite Them Right Harvard format for any references
Followed Manchester Met’s research and ethics guidelines for participant data and privacy
Proofread your content for clarity and accuracy
5. Wait for us to get in touch
We will review your submission and get in touch with you if there are any issues.
If we have everything we need and your submission meets our guidelines, your submission will published on the website and we will send you a link.
Types of submission
The Manchester Met Innovate website welcomes submissions that share educational practice, innovation, and ideas from across the university. We’re interested in authentic accounts of your teaching experience – whether that’s something you’ve implemented, an idea you’re developing, a first attempt at trying something new, or a larger initiative that’s created change beyond your individual classroom.
Your submission might focus on:
An argument for an innovative idea
A teaching approach or method you’ve developed
A challenge you’ve tackled
An experiment or pilot you’ve tried
A departmental or institutional initiative
Reflections on adapting your practice
Evidence of impact on student learning
We welcome submissions at any stage – from theoretical ideas not yet implemented to fully evaluated projects with measurable outcomes. What matters most is that your submission offers genuine insight that could be valuable to other educators at Manchester Met and the wider HE sector.
To help you think about what you might share, here are some possible types of submissions:
Portraits of Practice
A detailed account of your lived experience as an educator. This might explore how you’ve addressed a specific teaching challenge, detail a successful teaching method, or describe how you’ve adapted your practice to meet student needs. These submissions typically include context, specific approaches taken, and insights gained along the way – including what worked, what didn’t, and why.
Trying Something New
The experience of implementing a new teaching approach for the first time – whether a new method, assessment technique, or technology integration. These submissions share what prompted the change, how you prepared, the initial response, and reflections on what you might do differently next time.
Inspire Change
An idea you’ve developed but not yet put into practice. Perhaps you’ve developed a theoretical approach to a teaching challenge, or envisioned a new methodology. These submissions outline the rationale behind your idea, potential implementation steps, and expected outcomes – including possible challenges others might face.
Having Impact
Initiatives or projects that have created meaningful change beyond the individual classroom – department-wide innovations, cross-disciplinary projects, or institutional programmes. These submissions focus on objectives, implementation strategy, evidence of impact, stakeholder engagement, and insights about sustainability and scalability.
These are just examples – your submission doesn’t need to fit neatly into one of these categories. Focus on sharing something authentic and useful to the Manchester Met or wider HE sector teaching community.
Formats of submission
Written Piece
Submissions should be 500-1000 words, though longer submissions are acceptable if needed to fully cover your topic. Use clear headings such as context, implementation, outcomes, and next steps. Include visuals that help explain your work, like photos, charts, or screenshots. Include references in Cite Them Right Harvard format. Images should be submitted with a pixel size of at least 1200px by 630px or similar and above, unless you are using icons or thumbnails. This is so we are able to re-scale your image as required on the website. Please contact v.harradence@mmu.ac.uk if you are having problems re-sizing your image or need an exception.
Please create a Word document to upload as part of your submission, making sure that it meets accessibility requirements.
Video
Your video should be no longer than 5 minutes ideally (but can be up to 7 minutes). You can create whatever type of video works best for your content – this might be a recorded poster presentation where you talk through your poster, a talking head video, narrated slides, a demonstration of teaching methods, or any combination of formats. In your video, you can elaborate on key points and share additional insights about your practice. This format allows you to include elements like short demonstrations or screen captures of digital tools in use. Please upload your video to mmutube, creating either an unlisted link or publishing to the public channel and ensure that the download setting is set to allow the video to be downloaded by others. To ensure accessibility, include a brief text description of your video content.
Podcast
Audio submissions should be up to 40 minutes long. Include interviews, discussions, or stories with high-quality sound and clear narrative structure. LEED will add intro and end music to your piece.
To create your podcast, please log into Adobe Express with your institutional login details and then use this link to access the podcast template: Manchester Met Innovate Podcast Template. The template uses the Adobe Podcast studio which is easy to use. Once you have finished your Podcast, please use the share function to create a link to include in your submission. Please see this video for a walkthrough of the process.
Digital Poster
A digital poster is a single-page visual presentation that combines text, graphics, and images to showcase your work. A recorded poster presentation allows you to talk through your project while showing your poster on screen, offering the opportunity to provide more detailed explanations.
You should create a visually engaging poster that clearly presents your project using graphics and minimal text. Your poster should be designed to be easily readable and impactful at a glance. Your poster should tell the story of your teaching innovation, including the context of your practice, what you did, why you did it, and what impact it had. Consider including your teaching challenge or opportunity, your solution or intervention, evidence of impact on student learning, and key takeaways for others who might adopt your approach. You might also include student feedback quotes, visual evidence of student engagement or work, relevant data or metrics, and links to additional resources.
For digital display, your poster should be created at 1920 x 1080 pixels (16:9 aspect ratio), which ensures optimal viewing across different screens. Please submit your final poster as a PDF, keeping the file size under 10MB to ensure quick loading times on the website. When designing your poster, consider how readable your text will be on a standard laptop screen without requiring viewers to zoom in. Please also provide a word document containing a plain text version of the poster for accessibility purposes.
Good digital poster design involves testing readability at different screen sizes and using web-safe fonts (or embedding your fonts in the PDF). Remember to keep important content away from the edges by maintaining approximately a 5% margin. High contrast colours will ensure better screen visibility, while breaking up text into digestible chunks makes your content more approachable. Consider how your poster will appear when scaled down on smaller devices.
Digital posters: Submit both the visual PDF AND a separate text version containing all information from the poster in an accessible format
Videos: Must be uploaded to MMUtube with captions/subtitles enabled, plus provide a text transcript or detailed text description
Podcasts: Provide a text transcript
Review process
On submission, an initial check that all accessibility requirements are met will be carried out. We will contact you if additional materials are needed before your submission proceeds to review.
All submissions will be reviewed to ensure alignment with Manchester Met’s Education Strategy themes and adherence to format requirements. While our review process is supportive rather than onerous, we aim to maintain high standards for content published on the Manchester Met Innovate website. If your submission needs development, we’ll provide constructive feedback to help you refine it, but please be aware that we cannot guarantee publication of every piece.
Once your submission is live on the website, you will receive an e-mail with the URL so you can share with your internal and external networks.
