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Mon, 28 Nov 2022 19:19:13 +0000

I would like to start this post by giving my own feedback for this intervention. I didn’t take part in it, obviously. But I feel like I’ve come full circle. Let me explain. For my application for MAAI we were […]

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Fri, 25 Nov 2022 14:41:39 +0000

For my BA Photography dissertation, I wrote 2000 words on photography as a therapeutic tool. From an outside perspective, self portraiture can be seen as narcissistic and vain. Studies have shown that self […]

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Fri, 25 Nov 2022 14:27:37 +0000

Robbin Chapman, PhD who is the Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging in the Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at the Harvard Kennedy school, published a presentation about imposter […]

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Mon, 21 Nov 2022 13:28:40 +0000

Last tutorial. I don’t know where the term has gone!

Aside from various troubleshooting questions, David said something that really stuck with me. He asked how I’ve kept my creativity alive, whilst studying […]

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Mon, 21 Nov 2022 13:16:00 +0000

I was scrolling through LinkedIn on Monday and came across this video by Steven Bartlett, a well known young entrepreneur who appears on the TV show Dragon’s Den. At this point I’m pretty much done with my […]

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Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:01:00 +0000

With a short amount of time left, I decided that I couldn’t physically speak to everyone that I had already interviewed. So instead I sent emails with a one question survey, asking them to describe the […]

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Mon, 14 Nov 2022 22:01:55 +0000

I was reading this article on Refinery 29 about imposter syndrome in the workplace, aptly titled Do I have imposter syndrome or am I just a working class woman? and it had a link to what I believe is a chapter […]

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Sun, 13 Nov 2022 14:42:02 +0000

I have interviewed almost as many male students as female now, and I’ve noticed that there is a big difference in responses. Female students are more likely to be completely open to talking about their feelings […]

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Sat, 12 Nov 2022 14:33:00 +0000

After my last tutorial with David, I switched tack and actually changed my upcoming intervention that was meant to happen the next day. Awful timing, I am aware. But I didn’t want to create an intervention that […]

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Tue, 08 Nov 2022 14:15:04 +0000

Before my tutorial I had emailed David two questions :

I’ve been asking in my interviews with male working class students about imposter syndrome and if they feel that they experience it. Mostly they have said […]

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Mon, 07 Nov 2022 14:32:00 +0000

In my tutorial last week, David mentioned potentially including some male stakeholders. I had been conducting a few interviews with male working class students but it hadn’t really been my focus.

And then in […]

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Sat, 05 Nov 2022 10:45:17 +0000

I decided to accept David’s challenge to move into video and I made a video using quotes from interviews I had already conducted. I watched the video with some of my stakeholders. I wanted to see their reactions […]

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Thu, 03 Nov 2022 14:37:28 +0000

In the course of my research into imposter syndrome, I came across this article by the Harvard Business Review. The article by Ruchika Tulshyan and Jodi-Ann Burey aims to persuade its readers that what we now […]

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Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:42:00 +0000

The age group I’ve chosen for my stakeholders is 18-27, and I realised that I’ve never explained my reasoning behind this. At 18, you’re potentially away from home for the first time, studying in an unfamiliar […]

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Thu, 27 Oct 2022 13:02:39 +0000

After changing my question and adding ’empowered’ into it, I decided to do some research into what being empowered means.

This screenshot from Cambridge Dictionary online gives two definitions and uses. I […]

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Mon, 24 Oct 2022 11:44:00 +0000

I went into today’s tutorial knowing that my question had to change. I didn’t know how but I knew it had to happen.

So how did I go from ‘how can arts universities better support female students from working […]

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Sat, 22 Oct 2022 13:36:46 +0000

Below is a transcript of an interview I did with a student at Falmouth University. This interview was recorded with consent and transcribed by myself.

FR – Thank you for meeting with me today. I wanted to […]

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Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:14:08 +0000

When I was last at my volunteering job, I got into conversation with a lady who works in the EDI department at Demontfort University in Leicester. I was telling her about my research and she suggested that I look […]

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Fri, 14 Oct 2022 12:39:00 +0000

I was mindlessly scrolling on Instagram and found myself flicking through the @ualmemes story where they had asked for the top three things people had learnt at UAL. Obviously all the submissions were anonymous […]

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Thu, 13 Oct 2022 13:18:00 +0000

I will be the first person to admit that it’s been too long since my last intervention but with David’s help I’ve figured out what I want to do. My last intervention I asked a very small group of stakeholders […]

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Mon, 10 Oct 2022 13:07:00 +0000

Today I went into my tutorial with a question – albeit a slightly stupid one in hindsight. I asked David how to present my research at the festival in a way that utilises my background in photography….

Just […]

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Mon, 03 Oct 2022 14:20:42 +0000

First tutorial with David and I feel as though my mental block has disappeared! I think that I have been second guessing myself and my project too much, and focusing on the roadblocks I’m encountering rather […]

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Fri, 30 Sep 2022 13:19:49 +0000

I sent an email to a member of staff that Richard had pointed me in the direction of, and they suggested I look into how the cost of living crisis is going to affect working class students. I have to admit, I had […]

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Sun, 25 Sep 2022 19:55:02 +0000

As we approach a new semester, I have asked for further feedback from my intervention in the form of statements about participating and any suggestions my stakeholders have for moving forwards with my […]

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Fri, 09 Sep 2022 11:50:43 +0000

During my presentation feedback on Wednesday, Richard informed that there is a whole group of people working on the same thing as my project in Student Services.

I’d not come across this through all my […]

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Wed, 31 Aug 2022 20:30:41 +0000

This quote is one I used in my first intervention, and came from a casual conversation I had with a student at UAL. I spoke to her further about it, and she told me that she has often joined dating apps […]

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Wed, 31 Aug 2022 19:28:17 +0000

As referenced in my previous post, working class people are often on your tv screens. But is it in a positive or negative way?

Positive representation of the working classes

The Netflix show On My Block is […]

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Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:03:47 +0000

In a conversation with someone who is considered an expert in the context of my project, I was told that there is no class problem in universities in general, let alone in arts universities. I found this […]

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Fri, 19 Aug 2022 12:07:00 +0000

Today I saw that LAMDA (London Acadamy of Music and Dramatic Art) has installed QR codes around the school, where students and staff can report microaggressions that they experience in an anonymous way. […]

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Tue, 16 Aug 2022 18:09:00 +0000

So far in my project I have defined what working class means to me, but I think it is important to find out what it means to my stakeholders too. After all, they are the people that I am trying to help with my […]

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Thu, 11 Aug 2022 13:00:21 +0000

I decided to create an updated SWOT analysis for my project, as the last one I did was for my previous question. I found this quite useful as it allowed me to think about my project from a different angle and […]

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Wed, 10 Aug 2022 11:25:00 +0000

Today I met with *Jess, a student at UAl. She very kindly agreed to talk with me, on the understanding that I would change her name and not use any identifying details about her in my project.

I […]

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Thu, 28 Jul 2022 12:57:02 +0000

“…it is also vital to ensure working-class students as well as ethnic and racial minority (BAME) students are adequately supported once they are at university. Widening access and participation, and the […]

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Thu, 21 Jul 2022 13:01:23 +0000

Most studies focus on working-class students and the ways in which they act or do not act. Yet, the ways in which interactions with middle-class students as well as university administrators and faculty make […]

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Thu, 21 Jul 2022 12:56:13 +0000

Zuleika asked why my current research question focuses on female students particularly. I am slightly embarrassed to admit that I didn’t have a great answer. I mean, apart from being a female student from a lower […]

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Thu, 21 Jul 2022 12:10:37 +0000

Working class student – a student who is the first in their immediate family to wish to study at university. Someone who has upward mobility and who has the desire to have a better life than their parents. A […]

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Wed, 06 Jul 2022 12:55:48 +0000

In the surveys I have conducted, I have asked people what social class they identify as. This was something that both Zuleika and Georges questioned me on in the last tutorial before the end of the term. I […]

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Wed, 29 Jun 2022 13:51:05 +0000

This week I’ve been reading the last 7 years worth of equality, diversity and inclusion reports for UAL. I was perhaps naively, expecting to see some sort of significant change over the years… a huge difference […]

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Wed, 22 Jun 2022 12:00:00 +0000

It’s been a few days since the tutorial where I presented my first intervention and I’ve had plenty of time to absorb the feedback and to realise for myself why it wasn’t a good intervention.

Firstly, it […]

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Tue, 21 Jun 2022 12:10:00 +0000

Given that I changed my question so close to the deadline for our first intervention to be done, I decided to start super small.

As a result of surveys I conducted I found out that a lot of female students […]

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Sun, 19 Jun 2022 15:27:02 +0000

After changing direction (again) and finally settling on a question that I’m happy with and excited about, I sent a survey to my classmates. I only had 11 responses, which is a shame but I think the results are […]

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Thu, 09 Jun 2022 12:30:00 +0000

How can working class students be empowered to overcome imposter syndrome in a UK arts education environment?

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Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:58:31 +0000

Richard talked about learning ecologies in class and how we should bring our whole selves to our projects. I realised that I was going about my research all wrong. I was focusing on the wrong things and trying to […]

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Wed, 01 Jun 2022 14:03:30 +0000

Yes, this seems like an oxymoron. But I shall explain. My first instinct is to create a series of interventions that are purely photography based. But your initial response to things is often the conditioned […]

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Sun, 15 May 2022 18:22:40 +0000

Books:

Jones, O. (2020). Chavs:The Demonisation of the Working Class. London: Verso Books.

Bloodworth, J. (2016). The illusion of meritocracy : why working class kids still get working class jobs. London: B […]

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Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:54:43 +0000

The Sustainable Darkroom is a London based initiative run by artists to equip photographers with the tools needed to develop an environmentally friendly darkroom practice. It was founded by Hannah Fletcher and is […]

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Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:23:23 +0000

In January 2020, two months before the pandemic hit, Vogue Italia published an issue of their magazine, in which they produced no new photography. They did this to draw attention to the vast number of resources […]

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Wed, 27 Apr 2022 12:48:14 +0000

I produced this SWOT diagram for my project. Each section is just filled with my initial thoughts, however I am sure that I will need to revisit this as the project develops more. The threats section is […]

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Tue, 19 Apr 2022 12:04:00 +0000

From the amount of planes taken to get dresses to a high end photoshoot, to the number of batteries being charged at any one time, to the food bought but never eaten just so that an aesthetically pleasing […]