Taught postgraduate students often struggle to understand assessment criteria and expectations, especially when transitioning from diverse academic and professional backgrounds. This exploratory case study consulted students from two diverse cohorts to help redesign assessment processes to make them more transparent, inclusive, and effective in a 5190M - Managing and Developing Environmental Projects module in the School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability. Students in both cohorts came from diverse backgrounds, such as a wide range of undergraduate disciplines, including home and international students; some...
We are sharing this to provide inspiration for embedding sustainability into education practice using packs of cards that staff and students can borrow from Helix. Each of the cards in a pack explains a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) with examples of how this goal has been advanced. What did you do? Why did you do...
Decolonising the curriculum is an important and increasingly prevalent aspect in our role as educators. It is our duty to ensure we present a diverse and global account of academic content, teaching methods, and assessment. This blog post introduces an approach to how we might authentically and genuinely diversify our teaching delivery and methods of assessments by working alongside students on a project that designed an essay question and accompanying workshop.
Our University commonly describes itself as ‘international’. While internationalisation can be reflected in research endeavours and staffing demographics, recognition of diversity should move beyond surface-level considerations toward how students’ diverse backgrounds interact with and emerge in learning spaces. We therefore launched the project ‘Embracing Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Teaching’. What did you do? Why...
A TIPS blog article looking at an alternative presentation approach to decrease anxiety and increase inclusivity.
Against the backdrop presented by sector wide concerns around students’ mental health and well-being (Remskar et al, 2022), it is important to recognise how dissertation modules for independent learning could appear daunting for some students. They may not have previously experienced this mode of teaching and learning, and/or may lack the skills, experience, knowledge, motivation,...
Working together with students, we organised co-curricular activities to enhance professional competencies and equip our students with the skills to stand out in the job market upon graduation. In the process we also built a strong sense of community. What did you do, why did you do it? Multiple co-curricular activities (those that run parallel...
This blog post presents a short action research project at the University of Leeds School of Law that seeks to shed some light on postgraduate taught (PGT) international students’ views on academic offences and their approaches to academic integrity to inform future policies and prevention strategies.
This example covers the various stages of the application and selection process for those seeking a placement. It discusses some of the ways in which students can be used as partners in the teaching process.
Engaging in the Study Abroad programme (SA) is a truly immersive and potentially transformative experience.
