Resources Embedding Employability toolkit The Careers Service in collaboration with BILT have created this brilliant toolkit on how to embed employability within your curriculum. Illustrated with examples from inside the ...
January 14, 2022 -
In a time of extended stress on mental health, small actions can salve a weary heart and restore faith in how communities can and do care for each other. ...
January 13, 2022 -
Hi. I’m writing a book on regenerative design for structural engineers with my friend Oli. The book aims to challenge engineers (who, alongside many other things, are responsible for a ...
January 11, 2022 -
I’m not really a fan of New Year celebrations. As the year ticks into the next you’ll most likely find me tucked up in bed. However, one thing I do ...
January 11, 2022 -
We’ve had another really busy year! Between taking on new Student Fellows, BILT Associates, growing the core team and partnering with a number of other departments and institutions with funded ...
December 17, 2021 -
We've got three new posts from our Student Fellows this week: Oops I forgot to get informed consent / Boosting sustainability at Uni: the new Sustainability Champions / The Price of ...
December 3, 2021 -
This autumn has seen more hybrid teaching at Bristol: sessions where different students need to attend the same session online and on campus simultaneously. These sessions can be very demanding ...
December 1, 2021 -
It might seem obvious that people participating in research must agree to participate. This is what we call ‘informed consent’, where a participant is told of all the potential risks ...
November 24, 2021 -
Poverty, Mental Health, and the Financial Barriers Students Face As both a student fellow focussing on the experiences of disabled students and a final year disabled student myself, I often ...
November 24, 2021 -
Events Reflections on hybrid learning workshop - Wednesday 24th November, 4 -5pm This workshop will explore hybrid practices with a range of colleagues across the University, share successes, troubleshoot problems ...
November 19, 2021 -
The 2019 Bristol Teaching Awards was a fantastic night of celebration of the excellent teaching and learning that takes place at the University. The person deemed ‘best of the best’, ...
November 17, 2021 -
I began University hopeful, if cautious. After a trying year in which the chronic health condition, which I have suffered from since I was twelve, forced me to study entirely ...
November 15, 2021 -
News and Events 'Exploring Transformational Experiences' Hackathon - 8th and 15th DecemberWe're looking for approx. 30 students, from all disciplines and levels of study, to take part in a hackathon ...
November 5, 2021 -
Before ethics was recognised as an essential part of scientific research, researchers ran amok trying to find correlations and causations, paying no mind to the impact their research had on ...
November 3, 2021 -
A guide to all those new and confusing terms in teaching and learning. From ‘lockdown’ to ‘PPE’ to ‘furlough’, the pandemic has brought with it A LOT of new words, ...
November 3, 2021 -
Hey, I’m Dan, one of six new student fellows this year working with BILT. My main focus will be improving student research experiences and opportunities, especially for undergraduate students who ...
November 3, 2021 -
The perspectives in the blog have been gathered from recent research into the topic of decoloniality and mathematics education. The focus of these articles is not exclusively on higher education, ...
November 2, 2021 -
With so much activity and drive around decolonisation of education happening at the moment, we thought it was important to step back and take a look at the basics to ...
November 1, 2021 -
Meet the 2021/22 Student Fellows Our new Student Fellows have now joined the team! This year we are looking at five themes and each of the Student Fellows has introduced ...
October 22, 2021 -
The following post is from Simon Halliday who started his BILT Associate role on the theme of evaluating of projects. I am an economist who works predominantly in Experimental and ...
October 21, 2021 -
Crowdsourcing ideas from large groups of people is a proven technique for encountering new perspectives and generating innovation. Informally, this happens frequently through popular social media accounts. In early October ...
October 19, 2021 -
There's no one-size-fits-all approach to running your hybrid sessions due to the vast difference in student numbers, room capabilities and disciplinary differences. However, there are some activities you can do ...
October 19, 2021 -
Hello, thanks for reading! My name is Adriel, and I’m thrilled to be researching ‘Decolonizing the curriculum’ with BILT over this academic year! Decolonization, and specifically decolonizing the university has ...
October 18, 2021 -
Hello :) I’m Tasha! I am very excited to start this journey at BILT, with the role of “Students as Co-Creators and Researchers”. Currently, I am in the second year ...
October 18, 2021 -