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Tue, 15 Jul 2025 09:48:47 +0000

Thank you for your blog post Cat, I too, found your point about neurodiversity within a busy classroom as an added component within conversations around diversity training as really really important – not something I had particularly considered when looking at these resources. The practicality around group learning too and having the base…Read more

In reply to - Catherine Busk wrote a new post on the site Cat Busk PG Cert Blog Task 3: Race. “We need to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.” Sadiq A (2023).Asif Sadiq (2023) explores the limitations of cur […]

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Tue, 15 Jul 2025 09:40:17 +0000

Thanks for your comment Ece – thanks for echoing and sharing my views around symbolic institutional commitment and what can often feel like ‘diversity for diversity’s sake’. I’ve expanded on this in my reflective report – it can feel within HE, DEI frameworks and training are performative and ticking boxes exercise and we can see how they don’t…Read more

In reply to - Cora James wrote a new post on the site All I can do is try Inclusive Practices Blog Post 3: RaceI’m white, middle class and a Londoner – born in Bethnal Green and grew up in Stoke Newington. When writing about […]

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Tue, 15 Jul 2025 09:36:37 +0000

Thanks for your comment Catherine, and it seems we shared the same feelings about the resources given, I look forward to reading your blog post. I agree we do need to improve and enhance our ‘tangible and memorable’ approach to diversity!

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Mon, 07 Jul 2025 13:06:32 +0000

Inclusive Practices: Reflective Report The intervention is designed around the Media Photography tech-run Instagram account, @lcclondonphoto, and specifically the competitions run during term time – initiatives aimed at highlighting students’ and alumni’s work

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Mon, 23 Jun 2025 10:31:45 +0000

Inclusive Practices Blog Post 3: RaceI’m white, middle class and a Londoner – born in Bethnal Green and grew up in Stoke Newington. When writing about race – I think you need to be aware of your positionality. There is often a fear amongst white people of

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Fri, 13 Jun 2025 09:21:05 +0000

Thank you for your comment – and your reflections, I’m glad we shared an interest in Christine Sun Kim’s amazing work and then you linking it to movement and performance, also through Miles too. I, too, have had to go and get a key from estates for a student to use a lift and was mortified when it took so long to locate said key and I wasn’t…Read more

In reply to - Cora James wrote a new post on the site All I can do is try Inclusive Practices Blog Task 1: Disability In Christine Sun Kim’s ‘Friends and Strangers’ 1 she discusses as a member of the non-hearing community, […]

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Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:40:09 +0000

Hi Cat,

Thank you for your reflection – it was really interesting particularly through the lens of performance. I really liked that you highlighted Singh’s ideas of stereotypes and communities, not painting with a single brush stroke, which is so important on all fronts. The euro-centric comment about belief systems is really resonant, and…Read more

In reply to - Catherine Busk wrote a new post on the site Cat Busk PG Cert Blog 2: Faith, Religion & BeliefKwame Appiah (2014) dissects the dictionary definition of ‘Religion as a belief in god and spiritual things’. In a way […]

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Tue, 03 Jun 2025 08:39:08 +0000

Thanks for your comment Catherine, I found it really interesting what we both took from Appiah’s talk, ‘plañideras de velrio’ is fascinating with its links to Ancient Egypt aswell. Thank you for referencing Mo Amer’s show ‘Mo’ which I really enjoyed and, like you, thought his approach to comedy through an intersectional lens was brilliant. I…Read more

In reply to - Cora James wrote a new post on the site All I can do is try Inclusive Practices Blog Task 2: Faith, Religion & Belief I started off these resources with Kwame Anthony Appiah’s talk ‘is religion good or bad? (this […]

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Tue, 27 May 2025 10:44:41 +0000

Hi Ece,

Thank you for your comment – I also really enjoyed your blog post and the way we approached these resources differently has helped me reflect a lot on my own interpretation and expression. I’m glad you picked up on the cultural dimensions of grief, as it is something that I hadn’t particularly focused on within a religious context…Read more

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Mon, 26 May 2025 07:21:30 +0000

Inclusive Practices: Formative Assessment: Intervention Summary Proposal I run the @lcclondonphoto instagram account where each week (during term time) I run a series of competitions designed for students to win free film (gifted to us by Kodak) – this is an aim to get students who can’t afford

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Wed, 21 May 2025 10:56:51 +0000

Hi Cat, Thank you for your reflection – and for introducing me to Maysoon Zayid, I found the Ted Talk you linked fascinating. I really liked how you started the blog post talking about if we are a society ‘really want to tackle discrimination’ and I agree with you that I don’t think we do. I really thought your writing about the importance of…Read more

In reply to - Catherine Busk wrote a new post on the site Cat Busk PG Cert Inclusive PractisesBlog 1 : Disability Diability and race: “Do we really want to tackle discrimination?” “Racism is within in the system, it is […]

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Tue, 20 May 2025 11:12:32 +0000

Inclusive Practices Blog Task 2: Faith, Religion & Belief I started off these resources with Kwame Anthony Appiah’s talk ‘is religion good or bad? (this is a trick question)’ 1where he discusses spiritual agency, breaking down the paradigm religions into sub-parts, talking about

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Thu, 01 May 2025 10:50:57 +0000

Hi Ece,

Thank you so much for your comment – I’m glad you enjoyed it and felt like the references to Justina Miles were poignant, I thought her interview was insightful and as you say, impactful. We share the same thoughts and concerns re: inclusivity in technical spaces, showing how this isn’t a ‘departmental’ issue but UAL wide. It’s really…Read more

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Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:56:11 +0000

Inclusive Practices Blog Task 1: Disability In Christine Sun Kim’s ‘Friends and Strangers’ 1 she discusses as a member of the non-hearing community, consistently feeling oppressed within the hearing community, she notes that she doesn’t get to be a mysterious artist,

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Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:05:57 +0000

Case Studies Case Study 1Download Case Study 2Download Case-Study-3Download

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Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:24:18 +0000

Blog post 4: Aphorisms & assessments At the beginning of workshop 2a, we started with five different aphorisms, and voted for one that we most aligned with; ‘Education does not change the world. Education changes people. People change the world.’1 Paulo

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Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:06:39 +0000

Microteaching reflections We were all asked initially how we were feeling about the micro-teaching session on the morning of February 5th, the online platform Teams popped up with question and 20+ people sheepishly typed ‘nervous’ into the box as

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Thu, 06 Feb 2025 09:37:31 +0000

Reviews of Teaching Practice Cora James & Carys Kennedy – Review of Teaching Practice 31st January 2025Download Cora James & Kitty Eyes – Review of Teaching Practice 13th February

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Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:36:39 +0000

Blog post 3: 'Objects can energise learning & teaching' prep for the micro-teaching session & OBL When starting to think about my micro-teaching session, I was already feeling relatively restricted. It had to be online, and the physicality of the ‘object’ would be virtual. I’m a tactile practitioner, most of my teaching

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Mon, 20 Jan 2025 12:16:25 +0000

Blog post 2: What is it that you do? ‘We are mainly valued by students constantly, but never from anyone else. The job of the technician is always backstage…it would be nice to be supported and valued. When I say valued, [that] means professionally valued,

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Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:26:34 +0000

Blog post 1: Day 1 reflections ‘Being a mother subsumes many of us, and though I had always worked, always made music, my role as a mother shaped the work, the music, me. My idea of family was fundamental to my creativity…took me out into a place where

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Tue, 10 Dec 2024 11:10:50 +0000

Nice to meet you too Lucy!

In reply to - Lucy Parker wrote a new post on the site Teaching Reflections (PG Cert) HelloI’m an Assistant Archivist at the Archives and Special Collections Centre at UAL. I support teaching in both one off sessions, in […]

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Mon, 09 Dec 2024 15:26:25 +0000

Cora JamesHi! I’m a Photography Specialist Technician and Associate Lecturer in the Media Photography department at London College of Communication. I’m looking forward to collaborating with students from different backgrounds and

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