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Facilitated and chaired by: Professor Colin McCaig who is the co-convenor of the Higher Education Policy. For more details about the network and its activities, please click here.
Overview
We aim to cultivate a space for meaningful engagement, discussion, debate and critical consideration of what and how equality and inclusion are changing in higher education policy and practice. Drawing on mixture of new knowledge, lightening talks and progressive conversation to better understand the challenges and share opportunities and solutions that support the social and civic purpose of higher education.
Schedule
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10.00 – 10.15 |
SRHE welcome and housekeeping Introduction and overview of the session by Colin McCaig |
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10.15 – 11.00 |
Colin McCaig and Manny Madriaga: Changing perceptions of EDI among PGR selectors: evidence from the YCEDE programme. Our paper is derived from interviews with nine PGR lead selectors involved in the York Centre for Equality in Doctoral Education (YCEDE) project designed to increase the number of minority ethic PGR students across five Yorkshire universities. Key themes include changing perceptions of EDI over time; definitions of fairness in admissions; barriers to reform (including institutional); drivers of reform; methods/modes of data collection that facilitate evaluation of changing practice. |
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11.00 – 11.30 |
Break |
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11.30 – 12.30 |
Kate Carruthers Thomas (title tbc) Kate reflects on the challenges of her dual role as a feminist academic researching gender and higher education and as the university’s Project Manager for the Athena Swan Charter. She considers the challenges – and opportunities of living as authentically as possible in what Sara Ahmed terms: ‘the gap between words and deeds’ in the university. She will explore the act of ‘walking the wire’ between the individual and structural, between institutional speech acts and cultural change and between compromise and authenticity. |
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12.30 – 13.00 |
Discussion |
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13.00 – 13.30 |
Lunch |
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13.30 – 14.30 |
Arun Verma: lightening talk on what higher education research, policy and practice can do more of to better navigate contemporary issues of equality and inclusion. |
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14.30 – 15.00 |
Panel-led discussion |
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15.00 – 15.30 |
Summary of the day and Close |
Speaker bios
Colin McCaig is a Professor Higher Education Policy at the Sheffield Institute of Education with 25 years of experience researching and evaluating widening access and participation, including in the postgraduate research arena. He has published widely on the difficulties of doing equity work in a highly marketised English HE sector.
Manny Madriaga is Associate Professor in Education at the University of Nottingham. His research interest is aligned with inclusion in higher education, specifically related to disability and race. He is currently the Director of Postgraduate Research for the School of Education. He is co-convenor of the Student Access and Experience Network for the Society of Research into Higher Education (SRHE).
Kate Carruthers Thomas is Associate Professor of Higher Education and Gender, in the Department of Education at Birmingham City University and the university’s Athena Swan Charter Project Manager. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on gendered issues of work in the contemporary academy. She also has a track record in creative methodologies including research poetry, graphics and podcasting. Kate is on the Editorial Board of the new Journal of Creative Methods and is a member of SRHE Governing Council.
Arun Verma is a leading figure in integrating intersectionality, inclusion and equity in higher education systems change, policy and programmes both nationally and internationally. He is Professor of Practice in Inclusion, Intersectionality and Impact and Head of Equality and Inclusion at the University of London and Fellow of the RSA.
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| Event Fee(s) | |
| Member Price | £0.00 |
| Guest Price | £75.00 |
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