This month we are handing over to another guest blogger – Prabha Parthasarathy – who was a winner of the Partnership Tutor Fund in 2016/17.
You can find out more about the Partnership Tutor Fund on the ADQE webpages.
Without further ado, let me hand over to Prabha:
On 31st March this year, a networking lunch event was organised at the Friston Building. Funded through ADQE, the main purpose of the event was to enable foundation students of the Study Group, to get a flavour of University Life at Sussex.
In addition to Study Group foundation students (of the Life Science Pathway), the event was attended by current Life Science students, Heena Jagatia-Ph.D student , myself-Link Tutor for Life Science pathway, Kristy Lascelles- Subject Leader- Study Group and Sandamalee Senanyake- Biology Tutor, Study Group.
In this fun yet informative session, Heena Jagatia, a Ph.D student, gave a talk on her career timeline, highlighting her laboratory achievements. This was followed by a talk by Elmi Dahir, a former Study Group student, now a third year B.Sc Biomedical Science student. His lively talk included some of the stimulating experiences at Life Sciences.
In addition to talks, study group students had the opportunity to build a DNA model and during this time , they interacted with first year Life Science students. They soon became comfortable and were invited to attend a lecture taken by Prof Jonathan Bacon, Teaching Award Winner -2017.
Overall, this was an extremely useful session and received excellent feedback. One student said:
“having conversations with first year students gave me an overview of the different courses and the opportunities we get such as shadowing and summer internships”.
Another student commented:
“students talking about their passion and dreams made me feel inspired”.
We hope that this small step will go a long way in promoting our goal of inclusive learning at the University.
Prabha Parthasarathy
Partnership tutor – International Study Group – Life Science Pathway
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