Following on from my IP unit, I would like to explore the idea of a mentoring-inspired Action Research Project. The project will likely involve multiple explorations of different methodologies and experiments. When I was initially considering ways to gain the necessary insights to develop a mentoring guide for graduates, I thought a questionnaire would be…

I work in the Careers and Employability department as a Graduate Employability Support Specialist. My role means that I interact and support students in their final term and recent graduates up until five years after leaving UAL. The students and graduates are from any college, school and discipline. This means that I am often expected…

The resources provided all showcased differing approaches to addressing racism, ranging from studies, reports, and experiments that touch on topics such as Critical Race Theory, Institutional Racism, and lived experiences. Although all of them were interesting to me, the two that resonated with me most were a clip from The School That Tried to End…

The resources: Is religion good or bad? (This is a trick question) (Appiah, 2014), Religious Identity and Epistemic Injustice: An Intersectional Account (Reki, 2023), Islam, Women and Sport: The Case of Visible Muslim Women (Jawad, 2022) and Challenging Race and Religion, and Stereotypes in the Classroom (Trinity University, 2016) all illustrate the way faith influences and impacts…

Intervention idea Throughout this unit I think that something that has been clear to me is how excluded people on the periphery of the system must feel. However, with the cohort I interact with, (those in their final term and those up to five years after graduation.) I think this becomes even clearer. As although…

The three films each featured individuals who fit Kimberlé Crenshaw’s intersectionality theory (Crenshaw, 1990). Crenshaw defines this theory as both a prism and a metaphor to name and identify various forms of disadvantage and discrimination that become compounded when faced by one individual (NAIS, 2017). Ade Adepite, Christine Sun Kim, and Chay Brown all face…

Timing Activity Purpose 3 minutes Introduction – Will introduce myself and my role. Provide the group with a brief explanation on the history of the object(s) and my personal association with them. Tell them what I hoped to achieve with the exercise. To get them to open up to the idea of sharing and being…

Blog 1 I intended for my first blog post to be about one of the Workshop 1 and 2 assigned readings. I read The design critique and the moral goods of studio pedagogy (McDonald and Michela, 2019), so was planning to analyse the study and what I drew from its conclusions. However, when I thought…