Art, Society, and Inclusion: Breaking Barriers in the Gallery
Written by Professor Graeme Kirkpatrick The funding received was to organise a class visit to the Whitworth gallery on Oxford Road for a third-year undergraduate course on ‘Art and Society’. The rationale for seeking support came from student feedback in previous...
LAWS70261 Trade Mark Law and Policy
Written by Dr Pinar Oruc Aim of this project This project focused on the practice of using tangible and intangible cultural heritage as trade marks, especially in the context of placemaking. This activity was for LAWS70261 Trade Mark Law and Policy, which is a module...
Understanding Violence 2025/2026
Written by Dr Caroline Miles I received Diversifying the Curriculum funding in 2025/26 to pay for a Guest Lecturer from the Centre for Hate Studies on the PGT Criminology course unit CRIM70552 Understanding Violence. The Centre for Hate Studies, hosted by Leicester...
Africa and Global Politics (POLI30862)
Written by Dr Carl Death One of the debates we engage with on this UG3 optional Politics course concerns the successes and limitations of electoral politics and democracy in Africa. This year, I used the Diversify the Curriculum fund to bring a guest lecturer back...
Racism and Resistance in Education
Written by Siobhan O’Neill Decoloniality and diversification are fundamental themes on the Third Year Sociology module ‘Racism and Resistance in Education. There are multiple topics within the module that speak directly to this topic (e.g. Decolonising Higher...
Facilitating Student Voice
Written by Benjamin Blackman and Dr Stephen Ingram Over the last year SoSS has piloted the role of ‘Student Voice Facilitator’ (SVF). SVFs are students hired to take a leading role in student voice on a given programme. It’s a paid role, and although there are ways it...
“Reclaiming the Stage”: Contesting the Concept of America
Written by Daniela Fazio-Vargas and Simin Fadaee Art has the power to unsettle, or at least that is what the Colombian visual artist Doris Salcedo says. With this in mind, she created "Shibboleth", an art intervention at the Tate Museum: a crack in the museum floor....
Taming the Nerves: A Reflective Note from Fostering Confident Classroom Interaction
Written by Putri Kristimanta, PGR and Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Politics When I first stepped into the first classroom I was supposed to teach, my body was tense, my palms were sweating, and my gut was nauseous. Building up my courage, I faced my...
From Courtroom to Classroom: How Therapeutic Jurisprudence is Reshaping Health Law Education
Written by Professor Nicola Glover-Thomas In June 2025, the University of Manchester became a centre for a growing legal movement, hosting a two-day conference on Therapeutic Jurisprudence (TJ). This project aimed to transform high-level research into practical...
Tools and Techniques of Applied Quantitative Methods
Written by Francisco Espinoza Recognising diversity in sexual orientations and gender identities has led to more inclusive approaches to data collection. Institutions have made genuine efforts to acknowledge these diverse forms of identity. Yet for many LGBT+ people,...
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