“Doing the Fellowship helped towards affirming my identity as an educational developer and helped me to see that I was becoming credible in this role“.

Who is the SEDA Fellowship for?

Fellowship of SEDA (FSEDA) is suitable for individuals who lead and contribute to change initiatives in academic development.

Academic development-based roles are held by individuals who work in several contexts, locally and internationally:

Faculties or departments
Learning and teaching development
Further and higher education
Adult education and training programmes

How do you achieve Fellowship of SEDA?

SEDA runs an annual cohort-based approach to FSEDA. In 2025-26 this will run from 1st October 2025 and finish on 1st April 2026. Throughout the six-month programme, FSEDA Candidates are supported in developing a portfolio of work which demonstrates alignment with the SEDA Values, Core Development Outcomes (CDOs) and Specialist Outcomes (SOs).

Candidates will engage with their cohort synchronously through participation in webinars and writing workshops and asynchronously through discussion boards. The programme is designed so that participants can benefit from each other’s reflections, feedback and support as their FSEDA applications progress.

Mentors will be assigned to each candidate, providing feedback and guidance throughout the programme.

The Fellowship Scheme Lead will provide a reflective space where candidates can appropriately respond to the SEDA Values, CDOs and SOs while appreciating the context within which they work.

The 2025-26 cohort will run from 1st October 2025 and finish on 1st April 2026.

SEDA values

Recipients of the Fellowship will have shown how their work is informed by each of the SEDA values, namely commitments to:

Developing understanding of how people learn
Practicing in ways that are scholarly, professional and ethical
Working with and developing learning communities
Valuing diversity and promoting inclusivity
Continually reflecting on practice to develop ourselves, others and processes.

Core development outcomes

Recipients of the Fellowship are required to demonstrate how they have, within their particular context(s):

Identified their own professional development goals, directions and/or priorities
Planned for their initial and/or continuing professional development
Undertaken appropriate development activities
Reviewed their development and their practice, and the relations between them.

Specialist outcomes

Recipients of the Fellowship are required to demonstrate how they have, within their particular context(s):

Identified goals for academic development processes and activities
Planned and led academic development processes and activities towards achievement of these goals
Facilitated and led processes and activities to achieve the agreed goals
Monitored and evaluated the effectiveness and the acceptability of the development processes and activities
Identified any appropriate follow-up development process or activity.

How much does it cost?

One-off registration and assessment fee = £570 for Individual SEDA members & £670 for non-members
Recurrent annual cost = £20 (Fellowship fee) + £129 (Individual Membership of SEDA)

Note on withdrawals/deferrals:
Participants who wish to withdraw within the first 3 weeks will be entitled to a refund less a 15% administrative charge.

Participants withdrawing after 3 weeks and up until 3 months will be entitled to a refund less a 15% administrative charge plus a 35% liability charge.

Applicants withdrawing after 90 days will not be entitled to a refund.

Continuing professional development

SEDA is committed to continuing professional development. Individuals holding a Fellowship are required to engage in a regular CPD process in order to remain ‘in good standing’. For further details click here.

There is a register of all categories of Fellowship holders on the SEDA website.

Contact

If you’re interested in joining the 2025-26 FSEDA cohort, which will run from 1st October 2025 to 1st April 2026, please email the Fellowship Scheme Lead with a copy of the completed diagnostic form by 8th September 2025. Please note the application window is now closed and will re-open for the 2026/27 cohort in the summer.

Fellowship Scheme Lead: Caitríona Price via via office@seda.ac.uk

FSEDA Handbook 2025-26