Welcome Week 2022 featured the launch of the first Bristol Futures Festival. It introduced first year students to the unique Bristol educational offer; championing themes of enterprise and innovation, sustainability, and global citizenship. During the festival students learned how they … Continue reading...
Category: Student Voice
Queer friendly Classrooms: Calling people out.
When a student says or does something that is offensive, it is important to talk to them about it. We know that this is a difficult task, as so many different situations call for different responses, … Continue reading...
Bristol Futures Zine 22
Queer-Friendly Classrooms: Your Queer Student Is Not Your Queer Teacher
Queer students are in higher education to learn just as much as non-queer students are. When attending a class, most queer students want to feel a part of the class cohort, rather than a teacher to … Continue reading...
Bones Fused Wrong
This Zine was created by BILT Student Fellow Kai Charles, working on the project ‘Experiences of Disabled Students’.
Student Research Journal Issue 3
Queer-friendly classrooms: Queer thought is not alternative thought
Oftentimes, queer thought or theory -when included in the curriculum- is collapsed into a week or two of a unit. Calls to ‘queer’ the curriculum come in partnership with calls to ‘decolonize’ it; a practice being … Continue reading...
Queer-friendly classrooms: Establishing Queer Language
To begin, we want to talk to you about you. Who are you? How do you identify? What are your pronouns? As invasive as these questions may seem, they are questions that queer people are asked … Continue reading...
UN Climate Change Conference: Education for the Future with Dr. Deborah Morrison
It’s a sunny day in Bonn, Germany, where national delegations, international agencies, NGOs, and other climate-related groups have come together. I found myself immersed in a sea of high-level climate change negotiations, events, and experts at the UN Climate Change … Continue reading...
Defining Pedagogic Priorities: A Review of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Festival
Last month I was invited to attend the Biological Sciences Curriculum Festival with other three student representatives. The main purpose of this was to connect developments in the School with the Bristol Futures Framework curriculum enhancement process. Co-delivered by BILT … Continue reading...