SoSS eLearning Newsletter – April 2024
New issue of the SoSS eLearning Newsletter. “Focus on Digital Learning” Week, guidance on moving to Canvas, ITL conference and more.
Diversifying the Curriculum: Research Methods
Dr. Amber Darr discusses how she used funding from ‘Diversifying the Curriculum’ to host a guest lecturer from the University of Bristol.
Diversifying the Curriculum: Criminal Evidence
Claire McGourlay, Suzanne Gower and Lia Seccombe’s account of how the ‘Diversifying the Curriculum’ initiative enabled the attendance of a guest speaker, a Barrister from Garden Court Chambers in London.
Diversifying the Curriculum: The Human and the Digital
How Jolynna Sinanan used funds from the ‘Diversifying the Curriculum’ to invite a guest speaker from the Open University.
Diversifying the Curriculum: Sociology of Mental Health & Illness
Dr Dharmi Kapadia’s account of using funds from ‘Diversifying the Curriculum’ initiative to invite a guest lecturer with lived experience of mental illness to enhance student understandings of Global
Mental Health and its effects.
Diversifying the Curriculum: Racism and Ethnicity in the UK
How Remi Joseph-Salisbury was supported through the ‘Diversifying the Curriculum’ initiative for the second-year module, ‘Racism and Ethnicity in the UK’.
Social Anthropology among the Archives: Chetham’s Library Fieldtrip
UG student Hannah Murphy recounts the field trip to Chetham’s Library, as part of Dr Katherine Smith’s Social Anthropology course ‘Ethnographies and Adventures in Manchester’.
SoSS eLearning Newsletter – January 2024
New issue of the SoSS eLearning Newsletter. “Focus on Digital Learning” Week, drop-in sessions, Blackboard homepage change, Learning Design case studies and more.
Simulations in our Classrooms
Dr Elisa Pieri reflects on using simulations of real-time decision making and complex scenarios in class, which can be an incredibly valuable way to enhance learning and teach key skills.
Diversifying the Curriculum: From Imprisonment to Rehabilitation
Dr Emily Turner describes how she used funding from “Diversifying the Curriculum” for two guest lecturers on the course unit CRIM 30662 From Imprisonment to Rehabilitation.