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Category: <span>Equality, Diversity & Inclusion</span>

Different perspectives on internationalisation in an internationalised university

Reading Time: < 1 minutes This collection on internationalisation was edited by Dr Omolabake (Labake) Fakunle, a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (UoE) and Coordinator of the MSc Education General Pathway, Moray House School of Education. It offers a rich glimpse into different individual stakeholder perspectives and inspires us to pause and to …

Recognising and Counteracting Microaggressions against students from working-class and low socioeconomic backgrounds

Reading Time: < 1 minutes This resource is intended to help you to: Understand what a microaggression is Understand the effect of microaggressions on student wellbeing and participation Identify common forms of microaggression experienced by students from low socioeconomic backgrounds/working class Learn some practical ways to counteract microaggressions and create an inclusive environment for all …

A series of videos for student-facing staff on supporting student mental health

Reading Time: < 1 minutes The Charlie Waller Trust has been working with universities to raise awareness of student mental health. The University of Edinburgh has been working in partnership with the trust to raise awareness of the training modules across our community and have have produced a set of short films for non-clinical staff …

Guidance on creating safe and inclusive learning spaces

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Further to feedback from colleagues that they would benefit from ideas on how to provide effective interventions when witnessing poor online behaviours, we have developed a toolkit with colleagues from the Digital Skills team, Careers Service and ART Students. You can access the toolkit via the Professional Development for Student …

Podcast Series: Student Mental Health & Online Engagement

Reading Time: 2 minutes This two part podcast series produced by the Institute for Academic Development examines the impact of online engagement on students’ mental health.  It explores the positive sides of online engagement, the downsides, the unintended consequences and what we can do to make things a little bit better. Listen: Episode 17 …

Tackling racism on campus: Raising awareness and creating the conditions for confident conversations

Reading Time: < 1 minutes An Advance HE Project funded by SFC and led by an expert group of EDI practitioners, academics, tertiary education staff and students. The aim of this project is to develop evidence based resources to be used by Scottish universities and colleges as they respond the findings highlighted in the EHRC …

Locating Bias in Higher Education Marking Practices

Reading Time: < 1 minutes In this post from Advance HE,  Hannah Borkin a mixed-methods researcher at Advance HE shares some of the findings on the prevalence of bias in assessment and marking as part of wider efforts to address systemic inequalities… Locating bias in higher education marking practices Nov 27, 2020

Key Takeaways from Mental Health Training

Reading Time: < 1 minutes In this post, Omar Kaissi a teaching fellow at the Institute for Education, Community and Society, Moray House School of Education and Sport, and a member of the Higher Education Research Group (HERG), walks us through his experience of completing a mental health training session organised jointly by the University’s …

Under Our Skin: what do we mean when we talk about race?

Reading Time: < 1 minutes This interactive site from the Seattle Times features conversations that explore what we mean when we talk about race. This selections of videos and interactive media includes discussions of microaggressions and the language around race and racism. https://projects.seattletimes.com/2016/under-our-skin/# About the Project “Under Our Skin grew out of conversations about how …

Assessment and Social Justice in the Hybrid University

Reading Time: < 1 minutes In this video, Vel McCune from IAD and Jan McArthur, a former colleague and now a Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University, discuss how to design assessment for social justice in a hybrid context. You can also download this conversation as a Podcast. Oct 29, 2020

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