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.
Incorporating Colonialism Topic into Economic History Teaching
Meng Wu describes how her project helped give students an understanding of global economics and political issues, and to benefit their employability in the long run.
Diversifying the Curriculum: Regional Studies of Culture
Chloe Nahum-Claudel’s account of how she used funding from “Diversifying the Curriculum” to invite a scholar from Ecuador, Andrea Bravo Diaz, to present her research with Waorani Indigenous people who live at sites of oil extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Diversifying the Curriculum: Serious and Organised Crime
Fiamma Terenghi’s account of how she used funding from “Diversifying the Curriculum” to invite Prof. Anna Sergi from the University of Essex to deliver a guest lecture on the ‘Ndrangheta, one of the most prominent and powerful Italian mafia around the world.
Diversifying the Curriculum: Research Design and Skills
Elena Barabantseva’s account of how she used funding from “Diversifying the Curriculum” for a project aimed to diversify the content on the POLI 60312 Research Design and Skills module, specifically by creating short videos.
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