Category: Student Voice
We held a one day student hackathon with 16 students from across a range of faculties and courses focusing on assessment. Seven themes emerged. ...
December 7, 2022 -
Young people today have grown up surrounded by troubling news of climate related storms, flooding, drought, ocean pollution, ecosystem devastation and the deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest. This is a ...
November 30, 2022 -
Through collaboration with BILT, the University of Bristol looks to develop curiosity, persistence and a love of learning into each student’s everyday life – or at least that’s what their ...
November 15, 2022 -
The climate crisis is also a global inequality crisis. In tackling the interconnected issues and challenges of the climate crisis, the expertise of people with lived experiences must be recognised, ...
October 28, 2022 -
As we look forward to our next student hackathon we have taken the opportunity to pause and reflect the outcomes of July's event. During the hackathon, students reflected on their ...
October 5, 2022 -
Welcome Week 2022 featured the launch of the first Bristol Futures Festival that introduced new first years to the unique Bristol educational offer ...
October 5, 2022 -
View the entire series. When a student says or does something that is offensive, it is important to talk to them about it. We know that this is a difficult ...
September 28, 2022 -
Open the full size Zine in a new tab Visit the Bristol Futures Student Showcase ...
September 21, 2022 -
Queer students are in higher education to learn just as much as non-queer students are. When attending a class, most queer students want to feel a part of the class ...
September 6, 2022 -
This Zine was created by BILT Student Fellow Kai Charles, working on the project 'Experiences of Disabled Students'. ...
August 26, 2022 -
Visit the Bristol Futures website to discover more about the Open Online Courses and sign up to become a Bristol Futures learner! ...
August 1, 2022 -
View the entire series. Oftentimes, queer thought or theory -when included in the curriculum- is collapsed into a week or two of a unit. Calls to ‘queer’ the curriculum come ...
July 19, 2022 -
View the entire series. To begin, we want to talk to you about you. Who are you? How do you identify? What are your pronouns? As invasive as these questions ...
July 5, 2022 -
It’s a sunny day in Bonn, Germany, where national delegations, international agencies, NGOs, and other climate-related groups have come together. I found myself immersed in a sea of high-level climate ...
July 5, 2022 -
Last month I was invited to attend the Biological Sciences Curriculum Festival with other three student representatives. The main purpose of this was to connect developments in the School with ...
July 4, 2022 -
This is a manifesto for higher education UK classrooms, for higher education teachers, by higher education queer students. When we say ‘higher education,’ we mean universities, colleges and the like, ...
June 23, 2022 -
Three Bristol students discuss why ethics are important to research, what’s most challenging about research ethics, and what the university can do to support students undertaking research. ...
February 9, 2022 -
They are finally here. In partnership with the Students' Union, we have spent over a year creating hype and slowly introducing the roles of Sustainability Champions at the University of Bristol. As ...
February 9, 2022 -
Hackathons are events in which participants are asked a question, or given a problem, and have a limited amount of time to find a solution. Most commonly used in engineering ...
February 7, 2022 -
With the move towards blended learning, it can sometimes feel like we’ve been living in a virtual world over the past two years, our heads jammed with thoughts about online ...
January 31, 2022 -
Read the whole series. 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 ...
November 24, 2021 -
