I work in partnership with students and staff across LCC to enhance educational practice in relation to inclusivity, student continuation and attainment through project leadership, educational development and scholarship, aligned to the priorities of UAL Continuous Monitoring and the Academic Enhancement Model (AEM).
Through May-June, LCC is hosting an online Wikipedia edit-a-thon to increase the visibility and credibility of under-represented creative practitioners. LCC staff and students are invited to participate in this collaborative endeavour, which will take place through three online, real-time events late afternoon on 27 May, 3 June and 10 June. The edit-a-thon involves LCC Student […]
UAL’s Fellow in Race and Education, Dr Gurnam Singh has produced a 6-point guide to help us understand more about the disproportionate impact the Covid-19 crisis is having on Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic students. The guide goes into detail on issues of financial hardship, health inequality, the digital divide, racial harassment and hate, unconscious […]
UAL’s new Online Student Engagement Policy for Course Teams recommends ‘having a discussion of assessment criteria and near-completed work as “fit to submit”’ (2020, p. 4). This refers to a practice introduced and subsequently developed as ‘Make the Grade’ by Terry Finnigan, Head of Student Attainment at LCF (more background in this case study). Make the Grade has since been promoted widely through UAL’s Blueprint initiative […]
At the start of the year I wrote a Hub post introducing course teams to the Academic Progression Tool, a digital, collaborative, monitoring and communication aide for prioritising support to Year 1 students. When we went into lock-down I directly contacted course teams to suggest they work with their APT workbooks and the APT team as they go […]
An introduction to the LCC Student Changemakers, a staff – student collaboration initiative. As an academic community, we are more aware now than ever of the persistent racial inequalities in the higher education sector. The latest sector research says that work to address this needs to be in partnership with students and with sufficient focus on race as a stand-alone issue (NUS & Universities UK, 2019). LCC has been following […]
LCC staff can learn more about ensuring safety, equity and inclusion in our new ways of working in a new session on Inclusive Remote Teaching with Lucy Panesar and Emily Salines on Thursday 16 April 11-12.30 or watch a recorded version via Collaborate playback. The safety, equity and inclusion of students and staff is at […]