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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 | 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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Episode 4: Scholarship for science teaching

The Learning Matters Podcast captures insights into, experiences of, and conversations around education at the University of Sussex. The podcast is hotsed by Prof Wendy Garnham and Dr Heather Taylor. It runs monthly, and each month is centred around a particular theme. The

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Decolonising the Curriculum

Tobey Ahamed-Barke is a student on the Contemporary History MA course. He is entering his second year as a Race Equity Advocate for Media, Arts and Humanities, a role which involves advocating for students of colour at Sussex and working

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Raising awareness of symbolic violence

Biography Kevin Masters is a Lecturer in Strategy and Marketing at the University of Sussex Business School, where he convenes and teaches a range of undergraduate, postgraduate, and online modules. Kevin studied at the CIPFA Education and Training Centre in

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Decolonising the curriculum through co-created learning communities

In this case study, John Masterson, Senior Lecturer in World Literatures, talks about co-created learning communities and his module ‘Decolonising the Curriculum: Literature and Theory of the Global South’ (Q3309).  What I did  I was keen to offer Sussex students

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Interdisciplinary learning in the Liberal Arts

A Liberal Arts student meeting at the Shard In this case study, Dr Doug Haynes, Reader in American Literature and Visual Culture, discusses the creation of the interdisciplinary Liberal Arts BA at Sussex.  What we did  In collaboration with an

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