Compiling a list of the UAL staff with whom I have discussed my project, with formal meetings and conversations.
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“Most of UAL communities are based on the nationality. I feel like they treat Chinese students like tourists here. There’s no access to achives or to the history. A lot of people really want cultural exchange but feel like they are just visiting.”
Bringing business sector experience to advise on the project of making structural change to support connections at the university.
Post-Grad Community exists to provide a platform and opportunities for postgraduate students and alumni across UAL. A discussion of new initiatives including a postgraduate message board, forms and structures of community building, and lessons from Leanne’s previous role at Goldsmiths.
An afternoon discussing education, the founding and running of an alternative elementary school in the 1980s to today, pedagogical values and inspirational education thinkers, and reflection on my current project. Plus, communal singing!
Comparing notes and sharing information and interests in long-term, holistic systems solutions rooted in an activist mentality of inclusivity.
Darla-jane expressed a desire to empower students to stop thinking “this is just the way it is” and instead feel “we have the power to change how it is.”
Also, reviewing the KE strategy document and understand the KE ecosystem!
Discussion with Culture & Enterprise and Spatial Practices Academic Support Lecturer on his role, collaboration, and challenges: understanding the structure and roles of those within.
A discussion of compassionate pedagogy, Creative Mindsets, implementation of change in the university, institution as ecology, and policy with a UAL developer in Academic Enhancement within Teaching, Learning and Employability Exchange.
Arts SU Course Reps are self-selecting representatives from each course, it would seem a natural communication channel to leverage as I begin to think about creating networks of exchange within the university system.