Category: Diversity and Inclusion

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....

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...

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,...

Written by Daniela Fazio Vargas and Simin Fadaee "Protest and Progress: Understanding Movements for Social and Political Change" is a PGT Sociology course that seeks to expose students to various theories and approaches to the study of social movements and to explore...

Written by Ellie Gore, Lecturer in Global Political Economy, Department of Politics What was the rationale/aim of the project? Teaching a course on the political economy of sexuality means grappling with topics that have been historically neglected and marginalised...

Written by Luke Bhatia I have been interested in critical pedagogies for some time now and having been given the opportunity to organise a new module, Decolonising Human Rights, I wanted to incorporate some of the pedagogical practices that I had been reading about....

Written by Andrew Slack & Elena Barabantseva We obtained Diversifying the Curriculum funding in 2024/25 for expanding and revising the content and accessibility of course materials for POLI60312 Research Design and Skills. This is a compulsory module integral to...

Written by Lisa Williams and Felipe Neis Araujo In 2023, our Department piloted the Race and Social Justice Seminar Series to create space for frank, research- and experience-informed conversations about how law, policy and social structures can produce and reproduce...

Written by Dr Frederique Janssen-Lauret We redesigned the curriculum for the first-year, 80-student module 'History of Philosophy' to include Indian, Buddhist, Chinese and African philosophy, so that our department could teach a history of philosophy that represents...