Not all evaluations are created equally. Research demonstrates that students can be biased in their feedback for a variety of reasons. What we do with this information could impact both our staff and students into the future.
Evaluations are used … Continue reading...
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...
Young people today have grown up surrounded by troubling news of climate related storms, flooding, drought, ocean pollution, ecosystem devastation and the deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest. This is a generation that has not only come to witness the ‘slow … Continue reading...
Video of the Bristol Futures Festival 2022
Explore the Bristol Futures Student Showcase to see further examples of students’ work from the open units, such as videos, articles and story books.… Continue reading...
Back in Welcome Week, we invited students to make a wish for their Bristol Futures by tying a ribbon onto a tree and filling in an online form (with a chance to win £100). We received over 150 responses from … Continue reading...
This Zine was created by BILT Student Fellow Kai Charles, working on the project ‘Experiences of Disabled Students’.
Hackathons are events in which participants are asked a question, or given a problem, and have a limited amount of time to find a solution. Most commonly used in engineering disciplines, participants are put into groups and work together to … Continue reading...
It might seem obvious that people participating in research must agree to participate. This is what we call ‘informed consent’, where a participant is told of all the potential risks and benefits of participating, what being … Continue reading...
On 10 November, a highly interdisciplinary group of lecturers, students, and BILT staff convened to discuss a recent literature review undertaken by Shahjahan and colleagues, ‘“Decolonizing” Curriculum and Pedagogy: A Comparative Review Across Disciplines and Global Higher Education Contexts’ (2021). … Continue reading...
Before ethics was recognised as an essential part of scientific research, researchers ran amok trying to find correlations and causations, paying no mind to the impact their research had on participants or society. Some researchers even … Continue reading...
