This session took place as part of the Learning and teaching @York in the Coronavirus Pandemic: Continuing the conversation (Autumn term 2020). The presenters were Heather Buchanan. Abstract: Heather provided a short summary of her experiences of attempting to provide a regular focused online 'get together' for her International student cohort on the MA TESOL [...]
This session took place as part of the Learning and teaching @York in the Coronavirus Pandemic: Continuing the conversation (Autumn term 2020). The presenters were Penny Spikins. Abstract: You can access the recording of this session at this link here: https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fyork.cloud.panopto.eu%2FPanopto%2FPages%2FViewer.aspx%3Fid%3Ddabbe7e8-59cc-4cf3-9fcf-ac7f00cc96c6&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFhJDlAED2gDSX0bDyx-P7sck-QFg
This session took place as part of the 2020 Conference. The presenters were Giang Nguyen. Abstract: During Black History Month 2019, YUSU and GSA hosted a panel discussion for students and staff, ‘Start the conversation: Decolonising and diversifying curriculum at York’. Interestingly, some of the conversations at and around the event touched upon whether diversifying [...]
This session took place as part of the 2020 Conference. The presenters were Eddie Cowling, Wanting Gu, Wei Sun. Abstract: Recent figures show almost a fifth of university students are from non-UK domiciles (Universities UK, 2018), and here at the University of York well over 3,000 students are from overseas. The economic, cultural and intellectual [...]
This session took place as part of the 2020 Conference. The presenters were Clare Burgess. Abstract: The historical discipline has a diversity problem: as the October 2018 RHS Race, Ethnicity and Equality report showed, university history departments are “overwhelmingly white” – more so than the national average undergraduate population. Although 86.3% of those surveyed suggested [...]
This session took place as part of the 2020 Conference. The presenters were Hannah Jobling, Kelly Devenney, Jenny Threlfall, Polly Sykes. Abstract: Social work students from black and ethnic minority backgrounds have poorer continuation rates and attainment outcomes compared to their white peers (Fairtlough et al, 2013). Placements appear to be a particular site of [...]
This session took place as part of the 2020 Conference. The presenters were Yota Dimitriadi. Abstract: There is increased attention in supporting and embracing diversity and inclusion in Higher Education that may have shaped the ways that we work with a growing number of staff and students with disabilities. These approaches can be in the [...]
This session took place as part of the 2020 Conference. The presenters were Donna Carroll. Abstract: Maastricht University is the most international university in the Netherlands with 53% of students and 42% of academic staff coming from overseas. With its emphasis on small-scale, collaborative and student-centred learning, this diversity can have a big impact on [...]
This session took place as part of the 2020 Conference. The presenters were Sally Quinn, Alex Benjamin, Katie Smith and Patrick Murphy. Abstract: N/A You can access the recording of this session at this link here: https://york.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=141e1f4b-3930-4661-b2c8-ab6e009d61be