Outputs (9)

Alternative education: Inclusion beyond the mainstream (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This panel responds to February’s review of alternative provision in England (CQC & Ofsted, 2024) and June’s BBC investigation revealing that numbers of UK children moving from schools to home education are at their highest levels since covid (Hatten... Read More about Alternative education: Inclusion beyond the mainstream.

Disabled students and placements: Barriers and challenges (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The UK is experiencing a persistent skills gap which has grown since the COVID-19 pandemic. One factor that contributes toward the skill gap is university students graduating, but not being equipped with the necessary employability skills to meet gra... Read More about Disabled students and placements: Barriers and challenges.

Exploring materiality: Advancing tectonic understanding through large-scale reproduction in two and three dimensions (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The first year of architectural education marks a period of foundational exploration, where students encounter a multitude of firsts and advance quickly. It marks their first exposure to design briefs and concepts, diagramming techniques, and the app... Read More about Exploring materiality: Advancing tectonic understanding through large-scale reproduction in two and three dimensions.

Family transitions, ‘special’ education and home education (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Recent years have seen families of certain schoolchildren encouraged to deregister and begin home education. Ofsted (2019) considers the practice to serve a school’s purposes rather than children’s best interests. The Children’s Commissioner (2019) s... Read More about Family transitions, ‘special’ education and home education.

The value of creativity: Architectural divergence & regulatory convergence (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

At the beginning of the 2023-24 academic year, the architectural design community in the United Kingdom, is cautiously anticipating the Architect’s Registration Board, to provide the new guidelines and regulations for the delivery of architectural ed... Read More about The value of creativity: Architectural divergence & regulatory convergence.

Diversity and inclusion: Creating a culture of equity in the biosciences (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Abstract: Globally, science remains exclusive and inequalities continue for minoritised communities in the UK, US and across the world. Access to learning resources, quality of learning experiences and graduate outcomes continues to impact minoritise... Read More about Diversity and inclusion: Creating a culture of equity in the biosciences.

Inclusive spaces for neurodivergent/neurominority students in higher education (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Due to the epistemic, hermeneutical injustice of neurodivergent voices, inclusive language to express and interpret experiences has been excluded from centres of language generation (higher education, journalism, and governance). Through the use of t... Read More about Inclusive spaces for neurodivergent/neurominority students in higher education.

Building allies: The role of diversity allies in built environment higher education courses (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The lack of diversity has been recognised in the Built Environment and Construction industry, and solutions to address this are both achieving diversity within Higher Education, as well as improving workplace culture to increase retention of a divers... Read More about Building allies: The role of diversity allies in built environment higher education courses.

Connecting environment and community: Building students’ capacities as future environmental professionals (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As we find ourselves in a period of environmental emergency, it has become clear that we need to transform environmental management teaching. Critically, we need to prepare students to become professionals who respond to environmental challenges as i... Read More about Connecting environment and community: Building students’ capacities as future environmental professionals.