myblog | Safiya Ahmed | Activity https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/members/ahm15442388/activity/ Activity feed for Safiya Ahmed. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:35:55 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 3057bc71e975fe4b9f2e15c5511ce4b9 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=117 Fri, 07 Apr 2023 10:51:00 +0000 Hack your Reality

Thanks to UAL’s Activating The Sites fund, I was able to co-host a 3-day hackathon (intensive art + tech workshop) at Camberwell where students learnt the basics of Augmented Reality (AR) and […]

]]> 0 39e81e7b7dd5694428bb062ea95ca7c2 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=114 Mon, 09 Jan 2023 22:16:00 +0000 A lot of students mentioned using assessment as a tool to make improvements to their work

Some had very strong negative emotions associated with assessments –  “scary, daunting”,“anxious”, “stress” […]

]]> 0 a1963f65ff61c24928c35b98d3eb94b6 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=106 Tue, 27 Dec 2022 09:33:00 +0000 Designing inclusive assessment:

Assessment has a major impact on students and their learningSummative assessment helps students asses their future potential

Validity

A valid assessment task must link […]

]]> 0 1aed17146ada39c67814bcca5965a304 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=116 Mon, 26 Dec 2022 22:19:00 +0000 University of the Arts London (2019) UAL Assessment Criteria

5 assessment criteria:

Enquiry:

Analyse, interpret and evaluate relevant practices, concepts and ideas in relation to graphic […]

]]> 0 1478d2ee9c0db1734a22290588c5b26e Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=112 Fri, 16 Dec 2022 22:12:00 +0000 Feedback practices, peer assessment and feedback, and self assessment

Feedback Practices

For feedback to be effective, students need to make use of it – students need feedback designs that increase […]

]]> 0 0fee1cf59e3fe982037aec8b22eadc31 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=110 Wed, 14 Dec 2022 22:06:00 +0000 “evident from the review is that assessment practice remains an integral part of curriculum design and it is a vehicle that can facilitate change in order to better support students to manage the learning r […]

]]> 0 fbe6abfa60f7b8240777127955e871e5 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=109 Mon, 12 Dec 2022 09:58:00 +0000 Why is transforming assessment important?

“Transforming assessment can have a positive impact upon student learning and student satisfaction as well as promoting greater confidence in academic s […]

]]> 0 0cbce17da10bf467b3701046d85e8a88 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=103 Tue, 06 Dec 2022 19:26:00 +0000 How might (learning) outcomes and assessments be related to the student experience?

There was research to support outcome-led learning, i.e written form, such as essays and reports, was a predominant mode of […]

]]> 0 f1c0b5c0544f5885508659097b732397 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=95 Thu, 24 Nov 2022 10:23:00 +0000 Dr Emily Salines Interviews Professor Susan Orr

Interview with Professor Susan Orr Dean of Learning and Teaching Enhancement.

Exploiting assessment as a progressive tool to widen our grading reference frames, […]

]]> 0 74740ca0a711cfb34fd1b8ef64c51bf7 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=98 Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:09:00 +0000 Assessment is an area to make learning and education more inclusive.

Also an area to address the awarding/ attainment gap

How does or can an assessment process contribute to the awarding […]

]]> 0 d37a69818c703743fbee5eb09c6ce1ff Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=92 Tue, 15 Nov 2022 20:49:00 +0000 Focus groups:

using participant discussion for data collection

a form of qualitative interviewing – uses a reseacher-led group discussion to generate data.Flexible in terms of it can be quite a structured […]

]]> 0 cf332c1269b38259b6112d69ebc81071 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=97 Mon, 10 Oct 2022 08:25:00 +0000 Action research is important part of all areas where personal and professional learning is undertaken.

It is a practical way of looking at your own work to check that it is as you would like it to […]

]]> 0 da5d6ce038e6c886082697d62c8846f1 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=94 Tue, 27 Sep 2022 06:31:00 +0000 Interpretting interviews – Mats Alvesson

Main theme: how we can work with theoretical ideas in order to better understand interviews and interpret the materials coming out of them.

Types of […]

]]> 0 4018b7c130c7f29cde8b42bca14d702f Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=86 Thu, 11 Aug 2022 17:26:07 +0000 Word count (1572)

This report explores a one day workshop using Cards for humanity as a tool to engage with accessible and inclusive design. As a visible Indian Muslim woman, growing up in Croydon, navigating […]

]]> 0 876a883c1f4caacc8bd2f65779e68156 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=82 Fri, 29 Jul 2022 17:27:00 +0000 Witness: unconscious bias – Dr Josephine Kwhali

Dr Josephine Kwhali believes using the term “unconscious” is like a get out of jail card – with years of anti-racist debates and race equality charter marks and […]

]]> 0 d915c1389c22b58fca558587000151b4 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=84 Fri, 29 Jul 2022 16:07:00 +0000 Suzette Dorrielan, LCC Alumni 2017

I hope they aren’t [insert personal racial or religious identity here].”(Dorrielan, 2017)

Reading Dorrielan’s piece raised a lot of feelings I, and most people who aren’ […]

]]> 0 617462508245a36adb91d309eb5a6532 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=81 Wed, 27 Jul 2022 16:07:00 +0000 The main aspect of the Shades of noir website that I enjoy using is the Creative Database. The Creative Database is a platform that showcases creatives from a range of fields such as activism, broadcasting, […]

]]> 0 12d81934aaac308cb73ba718a87be245 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=80 Mon, 25 Jul 2022 15:42:00 +0000 Hahn Tapper’s writings on ‘A pedagogy of Social Justice Education: social identity, theory and intersectionality’ was very informative in understanding the intersection between activism and education, and how t […]

]]> 0 08145f68f61e5c93c4451886de0e1704 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=79 Fri, 22 Jul 2022 15:16:00 +0000 The three titles I chose to read are:

Minority identitiesWestern European moderate secularismReligion as a public good

Within these areas, I enjoyed the exploration of faith within the concept of its impact […]

]]> 0 95a098d2685ced2b70806a5368722c1e Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=77 Fri, 15 Jul 2022 10:28:00 +0000 Philosopher and cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah argues that when considering religion we overestimate the importance of scripture and underestimate the importance of practice.

The lecture explores […]

]]> 0 bb0f48ff39e7a29908a224224901af07 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=73 Thu, 14 Jul 2022 08:19:00 +0000 Religion, Belief and Faith Identities in Learning and Teaching UAL – (Website now inaccessible)

What does diversity of religion and belief mean for the way we teach and support students at UAL? Consider how we […]

]]> 0 5adb243d597916f527950553961875c9 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=74 Tue, 05 Jul 2022 08:32:00 +0000 UAL Religion and Belief Champions Forum

UAL religion and belief champions forum

How could you apply the resources to your own teaching practice?

Exploring the UAL Religion and Belief Champions Forum pag […]

]]> 0 dc9a05f09e5d5a17e92b772fdf0ac442 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=70 Wed, 29 Jun 2022 09:59:00 +0000 Interview with Saffron Mustafa

The interview was very insightful in sharing the experience of how religion can influence and intersect with how people decide to live their life as well as the reactions they […]

]]> 0 821e59b492cd7e71f25a3af63661f822 Safiya Ahmed commented on the post, ‘Deaf Accessibility for Spoonies: Lessons from Touring Eve and Mary Are HavingCoffee’ by Khairani Barokka, on the site Reflections https://pgcert22.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2022/05/13/deaf-accessibility-for-spoonies-lessons-from-touring-eve-and-mary-are-havingcoffee-by-khairani-barokka/#comment-6 Mon, 13 Jun 2022 17:15:58 +0000 Hi Tracyann,

I enjoyed reading your views on the ‘Deaf Accessibility for Spoonies’ article. I was quite interested on the topic of signage that you spoke about – drawing attention to how not all disabilities […]

]]> 40b8d3300b3c978d7ea3266e81f8848f Safiya Ahmed commented on the post, Inclusive Practice Unit, on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2022/05/27/inclusive-practice-unit/#comment-4 Tue, 07 Jun 2022 12:45:44 +0000 Hi Tracyann,
Thank you for your detailed comment – it gave me a lot to think about! I wasn’t aware of the GOV.UK Inclusive language resource but found a really thought provoking statement, “An impairment may j […]

]]> f8d3d1c7d1572e553a3956b8ef6fad8a Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=52 Sat, 04 Jun 2022 19:44:07 +0000 Blogging Task 1: Disability

Lets listen with our eyes and not just our ears”(A Selby Film, 2012)

Christine Sun Kim – A Selby Film

As the start of the film, you are introduced with a morning routine of the […]

]]> 0 da6a4b9920d10626210e7434d8194c0d Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=69 Tue, 31 May 2022 16:42:00 +0000 Disabled people have an ally problem – Imani Barbarin, Eastern University, US.

(Shades of Noir., 2020)

The article was a great insight into the ways that people try to be good allies but unintentionally can […]

]]> 0 27944bb91a15f1750303ae057eb2ced2 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=68 Mon, 30 May 2022 11:49:00 +0000 Spoonies: People who live with chronic pain and subscribe to spoon theory may refer to themselves as “spoonies… it’s a way for anyone who lives with chronic pain to explain the way they ration their energy based […]

]]> 0 1fa32ee244550f1bdd0c58dda58d17a3 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=66 Sun, 29 May 2022 16:54:00 +0000 Confronting the Whitewashing Of Disability: Interview with #DisabilityTooWhite Creator Vilissa Thompson

weet by Keah Brown (@Keah_Maria) on 18 May 2016:

#DisabilityTooWhite is a hashtag started by […]

]]> 0 c807fa504ace61cdd92fd6e11469f49c Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=61 Sat, 28 May 2022 14:16:00 +0000 Disability and dyslexia – https://www.arts.ac.uk/students/student-services/disability-and-dyslexia

The webpage details all the support UAL has to offer to students with disabilities, in line with the social […]

]]> 0 7396b0b7054003622e7d53569f8f1d98 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=30 Tue, 15 Mar 2022 19:39:00 +0000 Race and the Neoliberal University: Lessons From the Public University by John Holmwood

There is less public funding invested in higher education, a reduction of teaching support and a decline in the quality o […]

]]> 0 564700ae239f723be2fc9a0ce880646d Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=27 Thu, 24 Feb 2022 09:37:00 +0000 In this week’s session, we discussed the values within Art and Design education and how we could implement these to produce a conducive and encouraging environment for students. We also discussed the idea of […]

]]> 0 90b9b3f39e7719f1a0319ea669c94bda Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=33 Fri, 11 Feb 2022 19:36:00 +0000 For my micro-teaching session, I wanted my students to use the object, Hilye poster, to critically reflect on design history, what we include and exclude within the canon of Graphic Design.

The Hilye […]

]]> 0 a0e9e883dcf0f576a2459a4239dd6e39 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=24 Fri, 04 Feb 2022 17:15:45 +0000 Prior to the session, I selected a Unit brief from the course I was going to be teaching on, BA Graphic Design. I spent time engaging with the brief that I had not written with new eyes to try and answer the […]

]]> 0 fcf714a13d7ae51d7a0fc7323f83ea9d Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=6 Wed, 02 Feb 2022 14:14:39 +0000 Museum and study collection – Video Notes: 

Object based learning can be used to encourage deeper more experimental object engagement.

19th century – a notion that aesthetic appreciation was a learned […]

]]> 0 85b284f05d4df4780d09c735af1f00b3 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1 Wed, 02 Feb 2022 12:38:43 +0000 I am Safiya. As a graphic designer, my practice focuses on inclusive social design, editorials and design education. I am also a co-founder of Ricebox studio, a design practice that uses creative tech and visual […]

]]> 0 fe7ca71b025edc6477b3619808f0a6b6 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=28 Mon, 31 Jan 2022 17:32:00 +0000 Excerpt from Macfarlane, B. 2004. Teaching with Integrity: The ethics of higher education practice. Routledge.

Which aspects of Stephanie’s teaching practice appear to be the most ripe for d […]

]]> 0 665cacb12a8e781efc8ade4745bc544b Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=20 Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:19:00 +0000 To be able to complete this unit, I will need to complete 3 observations:

One of my peerOne by my peerOne by my tutor

For the observation process, I need to do pre-observation form (OB1) and observation […]

]]> 0 d8c630b9cbdbd6c6be76c76cd22af483 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=18 Mon, 10 Jan 2022 17:08:00 +0000 Archiving critically: exploring the communication of cultural biasesHannah Grout, Assistant Archivist, Archives and Special Collections Centre, University of the Arts London

We might consider an archive as a […]

]]> 0 683f6c78a54a61edcf387dd75a3019e3 Safiya Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Safiya Ahmed's Pg Cert Blog https://safiyaahmed.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=8 Wed, 15 Dec 2021 14:32:00 +0000 Notes from the induction session

The Course Structure and breakdown

Micro teaching is part of the assessment – will need to run the activity for 6 people – A mandatory activity.

You will need to teach […]

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