These resources have been created by our Academic Enhancement team and a number of collaborators. They aim to support our staff, students, and the wider community in promoting social justice within higher education. We've made sure to include the voices of staff, students, and experts to help inform both teaching practice and policy.
You can use and share these resources with people that might be interested in our work. Share your thoughts on how you’ve used them or how they affected you or your community in our feedback form.
To learn more about these resources or collaborate with us on new projects, get in touch with Gemma at g.riggs@arts.ac.uk.
Some of our videos may not be fully accessible to all users. Contact Gemma if you need alternative formats or have any accessibility concerns.
Case studies and sharing practice
Insights made with UAL staff and students on teaching practice that supports equity and reduces awarding gaps.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Capture / Curate - designing a student process toolkit (PDF 2MB)
Capture / Curate is a case study by Dr David Preston showing design of a student process toolkit associated with experimental learning for BA (Hons) Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martins
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Reducing awarding gaps: BA (Hons) Fine Art Critical Studies (PDF 937KB)
Read this case study that describes the re-design of assessment practices on BA Fine Art Critical studies at Central Saint Martins
-
Image: Close up, Textiles by Sally Cheung, Show 2, 2017, Textile Design BA (Hons), Central Saint Martins, UAL | John Sturrock
Video collection: Practice sharing
Watch UAL staff share insights into their pedagogic practice and learnings from interventions they have made
-
Darryl Clifton (Design Programme Director) and Siobhan Clay in conversation
Reducing awarding gaps – BA Illustration
Watch a conversation between Siobhan Clay, Head of Academic Enhancement, and Darryl Clifton, Programme Leader for BA Illustration at Camberwell College of Art
Belonging and compassionate pedagogy
Compassionate pedagogy creates learning dynamics that ensure students feel valued, respected, supported and included in their studies.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Podcast: Belonging in higher education
Listen to our staff, students and leading experts share their perspectives on how to create a sense of belonging in higher education.
-
Image: courtesy of UAL
Podcast: Belonging in online environments
Listen to experts, staff and students talk about how we can create a sense of belonging when teaching online.
-
Ceramics by Asuka Yamamoto, Foundation Show 2017. Central Saint Martins, UAL. Photograph: Martin Slivka
Website: Belonging through compassion
Learn more about collective thinking around belonging and compassionate pedagogy.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Fostering belonging and compassionate pedagogy (PDF 291KB)
Learn more about how belonging relates to learning, teaching and student success.
Compassionate assessment
These materials were produced from the QAA Collaborative Enhancement Project – a cross university research project that sought to identify approaches to assessment that nurture belonging through meaningful, compassionate interactions and practices.
-
Apoorva Singh with Charlotte Brown (Specialist Print Technician), Wimbledon College of Arts. Photograph: Alys Tomlinson
Podcast: Compassionate feedback
Listen to Dr Emily Salines talk with number of practitioners, teachers and students on how to take a compassionate approach to feedback practice in higher education.
-
image: courtesy of UAL
Toolkit: Prompts for compassionate feedback (PDF 125KB)
Useful tips on how to make your feedback practice for students more compassionate.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Video collection: Belonging through assessment - Research presentations
Watch our research presentations from Belonging through assessment: Pipelines of compassion – this was a collaborative enhancement project.
-
Emily Boxall, BA (Hons) Textile Design, Chelsea College of Art and Design. Photo: UAL
E-book: Belonging through assessment project report
A report for Belonging Through Assessment: Pipelines of Compassion, Collaborative Enhancement Project.
Assessment for social justice
Learn about our approaches to assessment and our ongoing work in reducing the awarding gap for students.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Toolkit: Formative assessment for equity (Second edition)
An overview of methods to approach awarding differentials through assessment practice (PDF 189KB).
-
image: courtesy of UAL
Podcast: Pass and fail assessment in arts higher education
Listen to a panel discussion on the potential of pass and fail assessment as a compassionate approach to assessment.
-
Image; Courtesy of UAL
Glossary of common terms (PDF 148KB)
A glossary of common reference points related to assessment.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Video collection: Assessment for social justice
Videos that explore assessment including 'Bending the Rules' by Dr Gurnam Singh and an interview with Professor Susan Orr and Dr Emily Salines.
Frantz Fanon: Decolonising arts pedagogy
Taking inspiration from Frantz Fanon’s seminal book Black Skin, White Masks, these resources bring lived experience to speak pertinently about race and pedagogy.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Publication: Interpretations, art and pedagogy – Frantz Fanon’s ‘Black Skin, White Masks’
A publication of original essays that respond though lived experience to Frantz Fanon's ‘Black Skin, White Masks’.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Video collection: What now for arts pedagogy following Decolonising the Curriculum and Black Lives Matter movements?
Video presentations that respond to the publication Interpretations, art and pedagogy – Frantz Fanon’s ‘Black Skin, White Masks’.
-
image: courtesy of UAL
Video collection: Omitted and making histories by Frantz Fanon
A video series from different practitioners and academics discussing and responding to Frantz Fanon’s seminal publication ‘Black Skin, White Masks’.
Decolonising pedagody and curriculum
These resources explore a decolonial approach that allows us to deconstruct existing knowledge, hierarchies and ways of doing and being, in favour of drawing on multiple knowledge systems.
-
image: courtesy of UAL
Toolkit: Debunking decolonisation (PDF 128KB)
Support for course teams discussing decolonisation to enhance the student learning experience and close the awarding gap.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Toolkit: Decolonising pedagogy and curriculum (PDF 244KB)
A resource for staff and students to reflect on what decolonising the curriculum might look like in practice.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Podcast: Decolonising reading groups with Inquilab
A polyvocal podcast that captures the principles of decolonisation, anti-racism, and flattened hierarchies that the group enacts in form and practice.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Video collection: Interviews with Dr Clare Warner on decolonial pedagogy
Dr Clare Warner speaks with staff from BA Performance Arts and Contextual Studies for Product Design about how they’ve approached decolonising their teaching and curriculum.
Decolonising the Arts Curriculum Zine series
The Decolonising the Arts Curriculum Zine is one part of a larger initiative by our staff and students. This examines teaching practices through the lens of decolonisation and addresses structural inequalities.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Publication: Decolonising the Arts Curriculum Zine 1
The first Decolonising the Arts Curriculum Zine is a collaboration between UAL staff, students and Arts SU, calling for decolonisation across the university.
-
Part of cover illustration for decolonising the arts curriculum zine2, by Naima Sutton.
Publication: Decolonising the Arts Curriculum Zine 2
The second Decolonising the Arts Curriculum Zine has a special focus on pedagogy and curriculum design.
-
Image: Anita Waithira Israel
Podcast: Perspectives in higher education – the story behind the zines
Hear how the zines began and our key aims for the project. Find out how the zines make space for the expression of different perspectives and experiences of decolonisation.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Video collection: Decolonising voices
Short films made by our staff and students about decolonising the curriculum.
-
image: courtesy of UAL
Video collection: Decolonising the Arts Curriculum – curators interviews
Presentations from a range of exhibitions held across our 6 libraries, exploring reactions to the Decolonising the Arts Curriculum Zine1.
-
image: courtesy of UAL
Podcast: Everything Must Fall – a conversation between Rehad Desai and Sandra Janette Poulson
A conversation between South African Filmmaker Rehad Desai and Sandra Janette Poulson who studies Fashion Print at Central Saint Martins. They discuss Rehad's film 'Everything Must Fall' and its implications for universities from a global perspective.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Podcast: Decolonising the Arts Curriculum exhibition – personal narratives
Listen to different perspectives around a Decolonising the Arts Curriculum exhibition at the Central Saint Martin's Library.
Creative Shift and diversifying industry
Creative Shift deliver a programme of opportunities, working closely with industry partners to enhance students’ experience and professional development. You can find out more about their work here.
-
Podcast: Making the Creative Majority
Listen to reflections from experts with real world experience of alternative routes into creative work.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Toolkit: Enhance students’ professional development and learning experiences through social media (PDF 193KB)
Explore how social media can enhance learning experiences, and support students as they move into professional creative spaces in a digital-hybrid world.
-
image: courtesy of UAL
Toolkit: Taking an inclusive approach to enterprise education (PDF 302 KB)
Explore how as educators we can take a more inclusive approach to enterprise education.
-
Toolkit: Social Enterprise Education: Harnessing personal values and motivations (PDF 4.4MB)
This toolkit aims to contribute to the development of inclusive and creative strategies for entrepreneurial learning.
Student partnerships and co-creation
These resources have been made in collaboration with UAL students to encourage participatory approaches within the studio as well as interrogating what decoloniality and equity means to them.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Toolkit: A framework for student partnership and co-creation (PDF 212KB)
This toolkit explores a framework to bring partnership, co-design and collaboration into our teaching practice
-
Image: courtesy of UAL
Podcast collection: Disruption and correction - podcasts made with UAL changemakers
A series of podcasts made with UAL changemakers?
-
Image: courtesy of UAL
Creative Mindsets handbook (PDF 3.2MB)
This handbook is for students and staff who want to work with growth mindsets to reduce barriers to teaching and learning.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Podcast: Bias and belonging in the creative arts studio
Staff and students on our Creative Mindsets programme discuss questions of bias and belonging.
Reducing awarding gaps - toolkits
Explore the aspects of teaching and learning that can affect awarding differentials.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Teaching for retention, second edition (PDF 304KB)
Explore the practical strategies, intervention ideas and prompt questions, to plan, try-out and review your teaching approaches.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Supporting attainment with unit design, second edition (PDF 231KB)
Use this tool to help you evaluate the effectiveness of your unit(s) and reflect on how different groups of students experience the unit.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Reducing referrals and resubmissions (PDF 304KB)
Read more on how reduce referrals and resubmissions from your students in your teaching units.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Eliminating inequality in formative assessment (PDF 288KB)
Learn more about the framework for examining how your conversations with students influence their grade achievements.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
De-biasing strategies (PDF 294KB)
Learn more on how to remove biases and improve degree attainment for all our students.
-
Image: courtesy of UAL
Internationalising the curriculum (PDF 489KB)
Learn more about our reflections and discussions on our curriculum, and how we can internationalise it for our students.
-
Image: Courtesy of UAL
Creating inclusive briefs (PDF 304KB)
Read our guidance to review and plan briefs so that we continuously think about potential barriers to learning and achievement and make changes to remove those barriers.
-
Image; Courtesy of UAL
Re-thinking industry engagement (PDF 216KB)
A framework to analyse how your guidance of student interaction with industry can affect their academic achievement and employment opportunities.