In springtime of this year 40 students and staff took part in an exciting sustainability-focused field trip to a 50-acre rewilding site in Devon. Embercombe is a largely off-grid education center which runs experiential workshops related to environmental issues such … Continue reading...
Tag: Education and Student Experience
Growing Confidence, Building Bonds and Finding Inspiration: Liberal Arts in Italy
What does it mean to experience the aesthetic? How is that experience accumulated? How does it feel? And how does knowledge of what came before help us to understand a particular aesthetic? These are some of the questions driving the … Continue reading...
Community Engaged Learning
Highlights from the UK Service Learning and Community Engaged Learning Network webinar, 8 March 2023.
In this blogpost, Hannah Cowell shares inspiring stories from the UK SL/CEL Network Webinar hosted last month. Read on to hear more about innovative pedagogy … Continue reading...
Tips for keeping students engaged and happy
In this blog, three colleagues share their tips for enabling student engagement. The approaches were developed during the pandemic and have been updated as we have moved back to face-to-face teaching. All examples engage with communities and resonate with how … Continue reading...
Curating language within our academic endeavours
My focus is on inclusion. For many years, in several academic contexts in the Netherlands and most recently in the UK, I have done a lot of thinking about the position of language in academic learning environments; its ‘situatedness’. I … Continue reading...
Supporting the ‘jump’ from school to university
As BILT associates, we’ve spent the last year or so thinking about how we can help students with a diverse range of needs transition into university life. While others in the team have started to look at these issues at … Continue reading...
Trauma-informed supervision
When it comes to supervision, there is acknowledgement of inclusive practice but this doesn’t extend to reflect the lived experiences of students who have endured trauma. A recent paper by Katrina McChesney seeks to redress this issue, presenting principles that … Continue reading...
Student Hackathon: What did we learn?
As we look forward to our next student hackathon we have taken the opportunity to pause and reflect the outcomes of July’s event.
During the hackathon, students reflected on their learning experiences and took part in activities to promote discussions … Continue reading...
The Bristol Futures Festival 2022
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...
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...