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Walk with me: Exploring community, belonging and inclusion through walking interviews

Dr Verona Ni Drisceoil is a Reader in Legal Education and a member of the Education Team, currently leading on Assessment and Gen AI policy, at Sussex Law School. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA),

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Join us on the 26th November to explore the role of oracy in higher education

By turning our attention in a serious way to how we use and think about our voices and ears, we can help students develop their communicative resources as thinkers, listeners, and speaking citizens.  (Holmes-Henderson and Wright (2025) Sussex colleagues, join

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Hosting the Heart

Dr. Adhip Rawal, Assistant Professor in Psychology My work as an Assistant Professor in Psychology has focused on relationality and the connection between head and heart. I believe there is consciousness in the heart and this way of embodied knowing

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Inclusivity Week | Friday 4th April 2025

Workshops: Neurodiversity Affirming Pedagogies (Em Harrison) and Student Co-Creation in the Curriculum (Dr Carli Rowell)  The final day of Inclusivity Week brought together two rich sessions focused on the importance of student partnership in shaping inclusive pedagogies. Both initiatives were

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Inclusivity Week | Thursday 3rd April 2025

Workshops: Embedding Inclusive and Decolonial Practices in Biosciences Curricula (Professor Zahid Pranjol) and The Co-Creation Approach to Academic Advising (Dr Hadir Elshafie)  As Inclusivity Week progressed, Day 4 brought a sharp focus to two essential elements of educational equity: curriculum

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Inclusivity Week | Wednesday 2nd April 2025

Workshops: Creating Accessible Digital Documents and Resources: led by Faye Brockwell (Learning Technologist) and Maintaining Attention in Lectures  Led by Dr. Sophie Forster (Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience)  Creating Accessible Digital Documents and Resources  Led by Faye Brockwell  With most attendees

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Inclusivity Week | Tuesday 1st April 2025 

Workshops: Decolonising the Curriculum (Tobey Ahamed-Barke), Reasonable Adjustments at Sussex: Policy and Practice led by Graeme Pedlingham and From Bystander to Upstander led by Dr. Özden Melis Uluğ. Across three sessions—on decolonising the curriculum, the evolving Reasonable Adjustments policy, and

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Inclusivity Week | Monday 31st March 2025

Workshops: Reading and Note-Making with AI (Martin Brown) and Designing Inclusive Learning Activities (Brena Collyer de Aguiar & Alice Taylor) The sun was shining on the first day of Inclusivity Week—a fitting backdrop to a day that centred student voice,

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Do It Together: History, Culture, Community engagement with the Towner Eastbourne

Introduction On 13th March 2025, final-year History students from the University of Sussex spent a day by the sea visiting the Towner Eastbourne. The day offered students a valuable opportunity to work together and reflect on how the skills and

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Collaborative Note-taking in Formative Feedback

Geoffrey Makstutis is Head of the School of Design at West Dean College, one of the University of Sussex’s partner institutions. He holds degrees in architecture from the University of Michigan and the Architectural Association and a postgraduate qualification in

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