Category: Inclusive Practices

‘I was anxious in case I failed, of course. I didn’t understand anything I read. I felt I could never ever write an essay. I wanted to leave in semester one.’ Shirley Anne Tate, 2018. Writing is hard, my tutor wrote me as I contemplated leaving the writing programme I had only just begun. In… Continue reading Intervention Report: Pop-Up Writing Workshops

Kwame Anthony Appiah: 2016 Reith Lectures Creed, County, Colour, Culture ‘We need to get comfortable being uncomfortable’ Asif Sadiq says. We learn through experience, sometimes those experiences can be uncomfortable but to drive change we need to embrace ‘uncomfortable’ because that’s how we learn. (Sadiq, 2023). Delivering a lecture to a room full of diverse students… Continue reading IP Blog 3 – ‘Race is something we make; it is not something that makes us.’

Intervention Proposal How inclusive is writing? Writing isn’t for everybody. However most undergraduate and postgraduate Creative Arts degrees include a Contextual Studies (theoretical) module where students are required to write a series of essays culminating into a final larger formal essay (thesis / dissertation). Not being able to produce this final piece of academic writing… Continue reading Intervention proposal: A is for Alternative not Academic

Blood rushed to our heads as we stood on our hands, feet against the wall, trying not to giggle or choke. We fought to see who could hold a handstand the longest, as we struggled to keep our shirts and skirts from falling. Glinting in the sunshine our gold cross necklaces dangled in front of… Continue reading IP Blog 2 – *Space Invaders

Audre Lorde – writer, activist, poet, mother, warrior, lesbian, black, woman, feminist, socialist, teacher, librarianLearning from the 1960s, talk delivered at the Malcom X Weekend, Harvard University in 1982. I teach contextual studies at a university located just outside London and recently, the lifts in the building were out of action. Announcements were made to… Continue reading IP Blog 1 – ‘There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives’