If you are a teacher, how do you obtain sector knowledge?

[YoBeaches]

Meaning if you teach perhaps college and university students in a specific subject, how do you access industry knowledge or experience in order to stay relevant? Do you have training budgets? Attend conferences?

How does this work, or is there a gap in academia and industry for teachers/Tutors/lectures?

Appreciate any insight.

I think this depends very much on the discipline you are in. For example, clinical, law, some STEM will be very different to Humanities/ Social Sciences.

it’s often referred to as coming under the umbrella of ‘scholarly activity’ i.e. how you keep up to date with your subject. Often, this = reading recent research in your field.

But yes, conferences, networking, membership of professional or disciplinary-specific associations tend to be the norm. All of which cost money and time so are not always easily accessible.

Thankyou that's really helpful.

Many in health/medical related areas will work one or two clinical shifts every so often - or hold joint contracts with NHS organisations.

If you "teach university students" you are typically an academic, not a teacher. Academics research is at the cutting edge of the field so they are by definition up to date with the state of the art. In many STEM areas industry will work in parallel with academic research groups and academics will be able to draw on contemporary industrial applications in their teaching.

I research and write books in my field. I write the books in my field which other people read. Most university academics do - our teaching is informed and often led by our research.

We're not teachers, although teaching is something we do. I enjoy it, and a get a lot professionally from it. But I'm primarily a researcher & writer.