 Becoming better educators is not only a shared and sustained ambition of colleagues across DCU. It is a strategically important focus which underpins the quality of our curricula and the student learning experience. Over the last number of years, we've adopted the globally recognized Advanced HE Fellowship Framework to promote teaching excellence and to structure support for continuous professional development. Fellowship status aligns well with the qualities and dimensions that are important to us in DCU and are identified in our academic development and promotion framework. The initiative is an important part of our quality enhancement plan and contributes to delivering on performance compact commitments to the HGA. Most importantly, it's building a strong basis upon which we set and stretch standards of practice, impact and leadership in university teaching. DCU became a member of the newly established Advanced HE in 2019 and formally launched a pilot of the fellowship scheme. Following the success of the pilot, led by DCU's teaching landscape unit, 18 staff across the university were awarded fellowships. In 2021, the scheme was open to all staff and the first supported online journey to fellowship was launched with the TU providing program of events and resources to support direct application to Advanced HE. The supported journey to fellowship is the first of its kind and has resulted in DCU enjoying the largest number of Advanced HE Fellows in Ireland. When you start the supported journey, you're matched with two colleagues to form a supportive triad. Fellowship candidates also benefit from an extensive bank of resources and exemplars workshops, an internal review process and a private online discussion group. By the end of 2021, over 60 fellows across all categories of fellowship and DCU faculties have joined DCU's fellowship community. This community continues to grow and has become a valuable way of supporting DCU colleagues and championing good practice in teaching and learning. This fellowship offers valuable critical reflection and evidence of your success and personal growth and your commitment to professional development over your higher education career. I particularly encourage heads of school, heads of units and line managers of early career researchers involved in teaching to find out more about the different levels of the fellowship, how they map to DCU's academic development and performance framework and to be supportive of colleagues' engagement with it. The fellowship framework supports learning, innovation and also evidence of achievement which is important at any career stage.