Dr. Amber Darr discusses how she used funding from ‘Diversifying the Curriculum’ to host a guest lecturer from the University of Bristol.
Category: Teaching & Curriculum
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’.
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.