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Disrupting the Discourse: Towards a Disruptive Pedagogy
Get PDFThe Higher Education Sector in the United Kingdom (UK) is currently being taken to task regarding structural inequality and unfair outcomes for student learners from non-white backgrounds, also referred to as the degree-awarding gap. How do we disrupt the narrative concerning race and, more specifically, as part of our learning, teaching and assessment practices? Using Critical Race Theory, a project, ‘Disrupt the Discourse,’ an initiative launched in 2021, is a small-scale case study piloting the application of the aforementioned theory as part of learning and teaching in a Higher Education Institution based in London. The project explored issues of curriculum design and assessment practices in response to the issue of the degree awarding gap. The initiative explicitly explores uncomfortable conversations about race as part of learning and teaching practice and, by working with a team of antiracist scholars, a curriculum framework and digital toolkit were created to explore the lived experiences of students and staff. This infographic depicts the journey towards a ‘Disruptive Pedagogy.’ The feedback from academics was that this initiative was instrumental in re-considering education as a vehicle for social justice through assessment practices, curriculum content and pedagogy as part of learning and teaching practice
Podcasting as Pedagogy
Get PDFFacilitating Race: Disruption, Empowerment and Fatigue in the Academy
Podcasting as pedagogy: Kevin J. Brazant, SFHEA weaves counter-stories of resistance, scholarship, and student co-creation to challenge exclusion in Higher Education
Service Providers
Get PDFService Providers is a prose text and text art piece, and presents a write-up of redundant electronic cables. In my attempts to create readable prose through the writing up of electronic waste – in the difficulty of that task – I materialize the impossibility of visualizing the problem we face regarding waste and the environment. There is something particularly affecting about E-waste in its toxicity, and yet we rely on it to provide services and communication. The piece published here is the start of a longer 100-page publication forthcoming with Hem Press and is a component part of a larger creative project about waste
Taxonomy for the assessment of the subjective experience of curly hair manageability
Get PDFObjectives
This paper aims to develop and validate a taxonomy for the assessment of the subjective experience of curly hair manageability. It represents the latter of two iterative stages of a mixed-method design interdisciplinary project.
Methods
The qualitative stage of the study incorporated thematic analysis of 14 interview transcripts generated using a video-ethnographic method (SEBE). A survey-based instrument assessing different elements of the construct of hair manageability designed during the first stage of this project was further developed following consultations with experts with extensive experience in hair research, product development, testing and trichology. The instrument was tested online with 506 female participants self-reporting natural curly hair, types 3A and higher according to the Andre Walker Curl Classification.
Results
The initial construct of four groups of hair goals received positive content validity from the experts. High scale reliability was achieved for the aesthetic, haptic and emotive goals' scales as well as for hair esteem (Cronbach's alpha >0.75). Curl type was the only personal hair attribute that was correlated with hair goals and perceptions. From the demographic and lifestyle data, only age was correlated with goals and willingness to try new products. Common hair practices and product usage were also correlated with hair curl and goals.
Conclusion
The appropriateness of the instrument for measuring the strength of different hair goals and perceptions relevant to hair curvature degree and hair esteem has been validated. The instrument will support the development and testing of products better aligned with the manageability needs of very curly and textured hair. It was also confirmed that hair curvature is the most significant determinant of practices, and age of product attitudes
Advocacy and Action: Systemic Approaches to Climate Education at University of the Arts London
Get PDFPresentation at Advance HE's Sustainability Symposium 202
Customer analytics and new product performance: The role of contingencies
Get PDFDrawing from the Knowledge Based View (KBV) of the firm and Contingency Theory, this paper examines the extent to which the relationship between Customer Analytics (CA) and new product performance is contingent on the strategic fit of CA with certain internal and external contingencies. The paper first conducts a multiple case study based on secondary data analysis. It then undertakes an empirical analysis based on a survey data of 249 high and medium tech firms based in China. We find that while some internal contingencies (such as exploitative learning strategy and market knowledge breadth) negatively moderate the effect of CA on new product performance, others (such as internal capability and knowledge integration mechanisms) mediate its effect on performance. Technological turbulence, as an external contingency, was found to reduce the positive impact of CA deployment on new product performance. This study contributed to the literature by focusing on how several internal and external contingencies of a firm may affect the relationship between CA and new product performance
Power Signifiers: the subtle forms of power in design practice with marginalized craft communities
Get PDFThis paper discusses how craft practice may offer empowerment strategies for critically reflective spaces, that allow for social transformation, using the case of traditional textile communities of women in rural Pakistan where development opportunities are limited. It uses the reflective practice of its design researcher, to explore established power relations, and search for new dialogues that build meaningful relationships for creating new forms of power in interrelated social, development and design contexts. This practice-based discussion contends with the embedded layers of power arising from social constructs and those extending beyond. A combined methodology, ‘Power Signifiers’ is presented as a critically reflective approach for social and design practice, building on the social sciences discourse of power analysis and power relations frameworks through forms of non-obvious power in developing contexts. Theories of power and empowerment provide a platform that designers can build on in examining agencies of making in design collaborations
Goya in Time-Based Media (Reflecting on the summer of 2024)
No full textA poem with accompanying artwork published in the arts and culture magazine Trebuchet. The work reflects critically on the summer riots of 2024
Decolonisation and solidarity roundtable discussion
Get PDF‘Funmi Adewole Elliott, Alethia Antonia, Ramsay Burt, Tobi Poster-Su, Thea Stanton, and Negar Tahsili were invited to participate in a roundtable discussion on ‘Decolonisation and Solidarity’, chaired by Víctor Ladrón de Guevara, as part of the conference, Borderlines IX: Seeking Solidarity and Wonder Through Performance, which took place at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, on 30 June and 1 July 2022. The provocations precede this article, and the video provocation can be accessed via STP online. What follows is the text of the discussion between participants, which was edited by Alissa Clarke with Harriet Curtis. The roundtable discussion considers decolonisation and solidarity in relation to topics including: the importance of self-reflexivity; contemplating new ideas, discourses and ways of being that sit outside existing dominant discourses and understandings; reductive representations; responsibilities, expectations and empty acts of decolonisation imposed by institutions; self-care; decolonisation as a process; undergroundness and the undercommons; creating and imagining new entry points for others; and challenging fetishization
Future (Re)view - Re-ing and (Re)reading “Future (Re)vision: A Few Reflections on Recollection, Reception and Response in Practice-Based Art Research or: Hindsight isn’t always 20/20”
Get PDFThis paper presents re-ing as a critical and creative method for experience-based learning. In this reflective dialogue between an art researcher and an art historian, re-ing is considered vis-à-vis the conference themes of Art of Research VIII (2023): re-placing, re-interpreting and re-visioning. The holistic significance of research in art and design is also explored from the perspective of practice, and the journey from Ph.D. student to Ph.D. supervisor. The exchange draws on work by the artist featured in The Art of Research II (2012), a legacy publication in The Art of Research series