BILT Briefing 99
Student Research Festival We held our first in-person Student Research Festival on Tuesday 25th April at the Global Lounge, Senate House. It was great to listen to undergraduate and postgraduate ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
What's your perspective on digital assessment? Jisc is inviting members and representatives of Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies (PSRBs) to take part in a survey exploring the use of digital ...
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 ...
BILT Conference 2023: Building community and belonging in a challenging and changing world | July 12th, 2023 | 9.30am - 5pm | Bill Brown Suite #BILTCon23
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 ...
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 ...
Bristol Teaching Awards Over 1000 nominations were cast in the 2023 Bristol Teaching Awards (BTA). Thank you to everyone who took the time to nominate individual members of staff and/or ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
BILT Annual Conference, 12th July 2023 Final call for contributions - deadline 6th March 2023 There are a few days left to sign up to contribute to our annual BILT ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
In this issue find out more about BILT's Annual Conference and find out how you can take part and engage with the theme - Building community and belonging in a ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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"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 ...