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Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students
Education & Development

Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students

...family to attend university, or from communities where higher education feels unfamiliar – the unwritten rules of university life can be harder to decode. These hidden expectations can influence how confident students feel in assessments, how likely they are to approach tutors for help, and how supported they feel when challenges arise. The good news is that small,...
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Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking
Education & Development

Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking

...family has worn, such as my mother’s saris, valuing Indian clothing as a legitimate source of fashion knowledge, rather being used as a superficial motif or tokenistic symbol for design appropriation. I now teach students to think about their own biographies and value the clothing that their own mothers and grandmothers might have worn and question why these forms of...
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'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race
Education & Development

'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race

...family. Only years later, through seeing the film Hidden Figures and then reading the book, did I understand how much information had been suppressed about the enormous input people from Black and Minority Backgrounds had on the moon landing. Kevin Costner taking an axe to the segregated toilet sign made for a very satisfying moment, but reading the book gave greater...
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Black History Month 2022 talks
Education & Development

Black History Month 2022 talks

...families in the long term. Transcript Do Black lives matter is contemporary sport? An update An update on the experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic individuals in sport. Transcript Transculturation of the Black radical movement of hip hop Kulture in India Hip means to know and hop means to move. Hip Hop means knowledge movement. What is often simplified and...
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People with dementia and meaning in music
Health, Sports & Psychology

People with dementia and meaning in music

...family members). Making music can also help people come to terms with the diagnosis and cope with their condition (Osman et al, 2014). In turn, music can provide comfort and help them maintain a sense of self as the condition progresses (Commission on Music and Dementia, 2018). However, since everyone is an individual, a ‘one fits all’ approach is not always...
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Mary Shelley: the expert view
History & The Arts

Mary Shelley: the expert view

...family moved to Holborn, where Mary could hear the screams of animals being slaughtered in the candlelit abattoirs under Smithfield. As she suffered from poor health, she was sent away for long periods to recuperate. During one memorable journey she hid her money carefully in her stays for safety; nevertheless it was stolen from her! From the age of thirteen she had...
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Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...family came from Bithynia in Asia Minor. Dio Cassius lived through some troubled times and tyrannical emperors. His history of Rome is now incomplete, and the book which covers Hadrian (Book 69) is a summary produced by a later author (Xiphilinus). Dio Cassius would have been dependent on earlier written sources for his history of Hadrian, but the nature of these is not...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK
History & The Arts

The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK

...family sit busily working at spinning wheels and the adult male works a loom.] Figure 1 Cottage industry: textile production often took place under what is frequently termed the ‘putting-out system’ in a semi-domestic setting, with female spinners and male weavers manufacturing cloth. This image, titled ‘The art of stocking-frame-work-knitting’, comes from volume...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs