Jeanette Ashton & Dr Verona Ní Drisceoil Jeanette Ashton is an Associate Professor in Law (Education and Scholarship) and a non-practising solicitor. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), leads on Employability for Sussex Law School,…
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Building students’ confidence to speak through interactive law teaching
Fiona Clements is an Assistant Professor in LPS and teaches Equity and Trusts and Law of Succession to UG and MA Law students. She is the academic lead for the Wills, Trusts and Estates clinic, offering pro-bono advice to the…
Tagged with: Applied and relevant, human flourishing, oracy in the curriculum, Social Sciences
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The Scholarship Journey: Cultivating Scholarship Through Growth and Connection during Scholarship Leave
Jo Tregenza is a Reader in Primary Education at the University of Sussex, and Senior Leader with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in, Primary Education, Teaching English, E-Learning, Lecturing, Teaching and Higher Education. Senior…
Conversations on teaching for community and belonging: Our blog collection
Dr Emily Danvers Conversations around teaching rarely happen beyond formal training opportunities that often take place early on in our careers. After this, and especially during term-time, space for talking in our busy working lives is often limited. Incidental corridor…
Tagged with: Education and Scholarship, Education for sustainable development, human flourishing, Social Sciences
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Getting the ‘social’ into Social Sciences: how can we learn from LPS student initiatives to build cross-faculty relationships?
Jeanette Ashton and Fiona Clements
Tagged with: Education and Scholarship, interdisciplinarity, Social Sciences
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Conversations on teaching for community and belonging: Our blog collection
Dr Emily Danvers Conversations around teaching rarely happen beyond formal training opportunities that often take place early on in our careers. After this, and especially during term-time, space for talking in our busy working lives is often limited. Incidental corridor…
Cross-faculty teaching: favour culture vs collaboration
Emily Danvers Across the faculty of social sciences, many of us share research interests, professional expertise and academic knowledge that shape the topics we teach. When we met to collaborate on this project, for example, we found most of us…
Tagged with: Education and Scholarship, interdisciplinarity, Social Sciences
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Slowing Down the Hamster Wheel: Space to Reflect and Create Communities.
May Nasrawy and Suda Perera Since we’ve been teaching at Sussex, it’s felt like we’ve been in a state of perma-crisis: Strikes, pandemics, financial losses, have all contributed to a sense that we are on the brink of imminent disaster and we need…
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Getting the ‘social’ into Social Sciences: how can we learn from LPS student initiatives to build cross-faculty relationships?
Jeanette Ashton and Fiona Clements The broader context When the new faculty structure at Sussex was first mentioned, discussed further at university-wide forums and School and Department meetings, our reaction was perhaps similar to many others. Whilst ‘indifferent’ might be…
Episode 8: Communities of Practice
The Learning Matters Podcast captures insights into, experiences of, and conversations around education at the University of Sussex. The podcast is hosted by Prof Wendy Garnham and Dr Heather Taylor. It is recorded monthly, and each month is centred around a particular theme.…