Surrounded by colourful bunting and endless tea and biscuits, the annual Student Research Festival was a bustling display of our talented Bristol students. Back-to-back presentations from across faculties showcased the ...
April 26, 2023 -
There have been calls within and beyond the University of Bristol to ‘decolonise the curriculum’. Decolonisation is defined as ‘an active process of critical scrutiny of our curricula and teaching ...
April 26, 2023 -
Date: Tuesday 25th April 2023 Time: 10am - 4.15pm Venue: Global Lounge, First Floor Senate House. Tyndall Avenue. BS8 1TH Attendance is free and open to all University of staff ...
April 18, 2023 -
Why do you teach? The answer may lie in your philosophy of teaching. More specifically, the overarching values and beliefs which guide you as an educator. I believe that an ...
April 17, 2023 -
Highlights from the UK Service Learning and Community Engaged Learning Network webinar, 8 March 2023. In this blogpost, Hannah Cowell shares inspiring stories from the UK SL/CEL Network Webinar hosted ...
April 12, 2023 -
Welcome Welcome to the homepage of the Bristol Institute for Learning and Teaching (BILT) 2023 conference, which explored the role of community and belonging in creating what bell hooks calls ...
April 5, 2023 -
A surprising number of business and management students struggle with writing coherent essays. In today's blogpost, Professor Will Harvey (University of Bristol Management School) provides practical advice on creating an ...
April 4, 2023 -
BILT Annual Conference Blog Series Our first blog in the series looked at ‘Communities of Practice’, where we explored the different kinds of practice that can contribute to shaping community ...
March 27, 2023 -
Where do students go to learn about ChatGPT? TikTok has the answers. Its search functionality and algorithms drive traffic where traffic wants to go, into the depths of user-driven interest ...
March 23, 2023 -
Attribution Dr Sarah Allsop, Senior Lecturer in Medical Education (SFHEA), Bristol Medical School. Medical academic, with 10 years’ teaching and leadership experience in medical and anatomy education, and a background as ...
March 14, 2023 -
Over the past two years, the three Biomedical Sciences Schools have been working to decolonise and diversify the curriculum. This has involved working in partnership with students to review our ...
March 13, 2023 -
In this blog, three colleagues share their tips for enabling student engagement. The approaches were developed during the pandemic and have been updated as we have moved back to face-to-face ...
March 8, 2023 -
Decolonising the curriculum, and our institution as a whole, is an essential part of the University of Bristol's civic responsibility. It is an ongoing process of learning and unlearning which ...
March 7, 2023 -
Radical Engineering Press I’m going to be honest with you. This is less a blog about book writing, and more a holding post. Over the course of the last week ...
February 28, 2023 -
At the Dental School we have been working closely with students to understand what Decolonising and Inclusion mean for us. Our research received funding from the Policy Support Fund and ...
February 20, 2023 -
My focus is on inclusion. For many years, in several academic contexts in the Netherlands and most recently in the UK, I have done a lot of thinking about the ...
February 20, 2023 -
The BILT Annual Conference for 2023 is centred on the theme of 'Building community and belonging in a challenging and changing world'. One of the phrases that is sometimes heard ...
February 17, 2023 -
In the run up to BILT’s Annual Conference, we’ll be sharing a monthly blog related to our conference theme: building community and belonging in a challenging and changing world. Over ...
February 13, 2023 -
"The traditional college essay is dead," were the words of Stephen Marche[1] about how the traditional/conventional teaching methods will be “disrupted from the ground up” by ChatGPT. As Marche (and ...
February 6, 2023 -