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Have a look through a selection of interviews and podcasts.
L&T Chatshow Podcast (2024) S4E18 - Neil Currant, Vikki Hill and Liz Bunting on Compassionate Assessment
Neil, Vikki and Liz talk Roger Saunders through the research they've been doing on compassion in teaching and introduce the idea of compassionate assessment.
Talking HE Podcast (2024) E47 - Dr Neil Currant, Vikki Hill and Liz Bunting - Compassionate Assessment
In this episode of TalkingHE, we talk to , Senior Lecturer in Learning, Teaching and Digital Education at the University of Bedfordshire, Senior Lecturer in Learning Enhancement and Academic Development at Queen Margaret University and , Educational Development at the University of the Arts London. We discuss why Compassionate Assessment is important, how
meetCompassionate Assessment works in practice and how it meets quality requirements, What are some of the challenges to implementation and how educators can implement it to overcome these? Where can educators go to find out more?
meetCompassionate Assessment works in practice and how it meets quality requirements, What are some of the challenges to implementation and how educators can implement it to overcome these? Where can educators go to find out more?
Interrogating Spaces (2022)
Compassionate Feedback
In this episode of interrogating spaces, Dr Emily Salines takes us on an exploration of feedback practice, and how we might take a more compassionate approach.
The impact of feedback on student learning is well documented in educational literature. We also know that it is a critical area of practice where the emotional impact of assessment is at play. We speak with a number of practitioners, teachers and students to set out to map a framework for compassionate feedback practice and how we might enact it
The questions we are asking are:
How can we harness feedback to support learning in a way that does no harm and supports students?
How can we use feedback to foster belonging?
Can compassion help us? And what would compassionate feedback look like?
This work is part of the QAA collaborative enhancement project on ‘Belonging through assessment: pipelines of compassion’ with UAL, Glasgow School of Art and Leeds Arts University.
The impact of feedback on student learning is well documented in educational literature. We also know that it is a critical area of practice where the emotional impact of assessment is at play. We speak with a number of practitioners, teachers and students to set out to map a framework for compassionate feedback practice and how we might enact it
The questions we are asking are:
How can we harness feedback to support learning in a way that does no harm and supports students?
How can we use feedback to foster belonging?
Can compassion help us? And what would compassionate feedback look like?
This work is part of the QAA collaborative enhancement project on ‘Belonging through assessment: pipelines of compassion’ with UAL, Glasgow School of Art and Leeds Arts University.
WONKHE (2022) Building back learning and teaching means changing assessment
How students are assessed is among the most totemic issues in pedagogy. Debbie McVitty finds out what it takes to make assessment change happen
Interrogating Spaces (2020)
Creative mindsets - bias and belonging in the creative arts studio
This episode of interrogating spaces brings together the organisers and student and alumni facilitators of the Creative Mindsets initiative that has been running at UAL since 2017.
Creative Mindsets works to improve attainment by developing growth mindsets to address stereotype threat and bias. It has delivered over 150 workshops with both staff and students in the last two years.
The podcast presents a focused discussion of different aspects and occurrences of bias within the UAL learning environment and beyond. The recording gave space for honest feedback and a chance to discuss real-life experiences on the phenomenon of bias at a range of levels, from the personal to the systemic. Through this, the discussion can inform a way forward for a more empathetic teaching practice that incorporates a sense of belonging within the studio environment
Podcast Contributors:
Ernestine Chua
Ernestine is a second year student studying BA Illustration & Visual Media at London College of Communication.
Humiraa Firdaws
Humiraa is a second year student studying BA Illustration & Visual Media at London College of Communication. Instagram: @whatihadinmind
Vikki Hill
Vikki Hill is Educational Developer: Attainment (Identity and Cultural Experience) and is also a Senior Fellow of the HEA. Vikki is part of the Attainment Team and works with staff and students across UAL to develop inclusive pedagogies and practices to address inequitable outcomes for students with particular focus on psycho-social phenomena such as bias, belonging and compassion. Vikki leads the Creative Mindsets initiative.
E. Okobi
E is an educator and interdisciplinary artist who works with performance, sound, video and text. She has devised and performed in social practice art staged at museums such as the British and Brooklyn Museums, and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). She has developed and facilitated educational programming for New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW), and the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. She is also a journalist and writer.
Joel Simpson
Joel Simpson is an artist whose practice involves walking tours of London, focusing on how histories of colonisation shape the design of urban public spaces. He graduated from BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts in June 2018. In September 2018, Joel started co-delivering Creative Mindsets workshops, before becoming Project Assistant from July - December 2019.
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Many thanks to the technicians and staff within the Sound Design programmes at LCC for helping to make this recording happen.
More information on Creative Mindsets can be found here: https://ualcreativemindsets.myblog.arts.ac.uk/
Creative Mindsets works to improve attainment by developing growth mindsets to address stereotype threat and bias. It has delivered over 150 workshops with both staff and students in the last two years.
The podcast presents a focused discussion of different aspects and occurrences of bias within the UAL learning environment and beyond. The recording gave space for honest feedback and a chance to discuss real-life experiences on the phenomenon of bias at a range of levels, from the personal to the systemic. Through this, the discussion can inform a way forward for a more empathetic teaching practice that incorporates a sense of belonging within the studio environment
Podcast Contributors:
Ernestine Chua
Ernestine is a second year student studying BA Illustration & Visual Media at London College of Communication.
Humiraa Firdaws
Humiraa is a second year student studying BA Illustration & Visual Media at London College of Communication. Instagram: @whatihadinmind
Vikki Hill
Vikki Hill is Educational Developer: Attainment (Identity and Cultural Experience) and is also a Senior Fellow of the HEA. Vikki is part of the Attainment Team and works with staff and students across UAL to develop inclusive pedagogies and practices to address inequitable outcomes for students with particular focus on psycho-social phenomena such as bias, belonging and compassion. Vikki leads the Creative Mindsets initiative.
E. Okobi
E is an educator and interdisciplinary artist who works with performance, sound, video and text. She has devised and performed in social practice art staged at museums such as the British and Brooklyn Museums, and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). She has developed and facilitated educational programming for New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW), and the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. She is also a journalist and writer.
Joel Simpson
Joel Simpson is an artist whose practice involves walking tours of London, focusing on how histories of colonisation shape the design of urban public spaces. He graduated from BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts in June 2018. In September 2018, Joel started co-delivering Creative Mindsets workshops, before becoming Project Assistant from July - December 2019.
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Many thanks to the technicians and staff within the Sound Design programmes at LCC for helping to make this recording happen.
More information on Creative Mindsets can be found here: https://ualcreativemindsets.myblog.arts.ac.uk/
Flourishing Education Podcast (2020) Inequitable outcomes at university - what can we do? with Vikki Hill
In this episode, I speak with Vikki Hill (Senior Fellow of the HEA) who is an Educational Developer in the Attainment Team in the Teaching, Learning and Employability Exchange at University of the Arts London (UAL). We talk about inequalities in outcomes at University and what we can do to remove inequitable outcomes in Higher Education Settings (and in lower educational levels).
Vikki has over 20 years experience in art and design education teaching, managing and examining in both UK and international contexts. Vikki works with staff across UAL to address awarding differentials and develop learning and teaching approaches in social justice and anti-racism. She has been leading the UAL Creative Mindsets project – that aims to reduce bias and stereotype threat as barriers to learning - since 2017. Her doctoral research is focused on educational development, critical pedagogy, compassion, bias and arts-based research methods in higher education.
Vikki has over 20 years experience in art and design education teaching, managing and examining in both UK and international contexts. Vikki works with staff across UAL to address awarding differentials and develop learning and teaching approaches in social justice and anti-racism. She has been leading the UAL Creative Mindsets project – that aims to reduce bias and stereotype threat as barriers to learning - since 2017. Her doctoral research is focused on educational development, critical pedagogy, compassion, bias and arts-based research methods in higher education.
Creative Mindsets (2018) film
Creative Mindsets aims to improve outcomes and experience for all students by building growth mindsets in both students and staff – the belief that ability develops through effort and by embracing challenge.
The Creative Mindsets initiative developed from a two-year project funded by the Office for Students (OfS) launched in 2017. Led by academics at the University of Portsmouth, and initially called ‘Changing Mindsets,’ the project was a collaboration between University of the Arts London, University of Brighton, and University of Winchester. You can find out more about the project by watching the film below.
The Creative Mindsets initiative developed from a two-year project funded by the Office for Students (OfS) launched in 2017. Led by academics at the University of Portsmouth, and initially called ‘Changing Mindsets,’ the project was a collaboration between University of the Arts London, University of Brighton, and University of Winchester. You can find out more about the project by watching the film below.
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