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‘University is a non‐Muslim experience, you know? The experience is as good as it can be’: Satisfied settling in Muslim students’ experiences and implications for Muslim student voice
No full textWe report findings from a cross-institutional investigation testing the applicability of a new concept, ‘satisfied settling’, which describes the ways in which students are unconsciously ‘settling for less’ in terms of their university experiences. The context of exploration for this article was that of Muslim students’ experiences as a critical area which has received little previous focus. Our results describe a staged cognitive process undertaken by students to subconsciously excuse institutional failures to support their religious needs by settling for lower levels of satisfaction. The ‘counter stories’ told by 19 Muslim students (via semi-structured interviews) detail how their voices are heard or silenced around the deep importance of religious provisions in their university experiences. Satisfied settling was ultimately found to translate across institutional contexts, and the applicability of the concept is discussed in extending to other marginalised student groups.</p
Are we just engaging ‘the usual suspects’? Challenges in and practical strategies for supporting equity and diversity in student–staff partnership initiatives
No full textHigher education institutions have been identified as inequitable for historically marginalised student and staff populations. Student–staff partnership has recently emerged as one approach to redressing such inequities. To what extent are institutional partnership schemes considering or achieving this goal? Using two phases of qualitative data collection, we explored the perceptions of staff administering student–staff partnership schemes regarding the inclusion of diversity across eight UK higher education institutions. Results highlight conceptual and practical challenges for and strategies to striving for equity in student–staff partnership initiatives. These results are discussed by drawing on the identities of the research team to highlight intersectional approaches to inclusion in partnership
Teaching science students to communicate - a teaching resource
No full textThis teaching resource contains five science communication activities, to be run in undergraduate science classes such as workshops, practicals, or tutorials. The skills taught in these activities are specifically for the communication of science to non-scientific audiences, although all skills are transferrable to other contexts – including communication with scientific audiences also. Activities have been designed to allow for discipline-specific science content to be integrated into, and taught alongside, the communication skills. All activities have been trialled and evaluated in undergraduate science courses across year levels and disciplines – for full details of evaluation see Mercer-Mapstone & Kuchel (2015). These skill have been derived from a thorough review of the literature across science, communication, science communication; and education, and validated by science communication and education experts to be relevant and essential within the context of undergraduate science. For details on the development of these communication skills, see Mercer-Mapstone & Kuchel (2015a)
An Analysis of Interpretive Framing in Literature on Students as Partners in Teaching and Learning: Data Tables
No full textData tables for the publication by Matthews, K. E., Cook-Sather, A., Acai, A., Dvorakova, S. L., Felten, P., Marquis, E., & Mercer-Mapstone, L. titled Toward Theories of Partnership Praxis: An Analysis of Interpretive Framing in Literature on Students as Partners in Teaching and Learning. Higher Education Research and Development
Faber Poetry Podcast: Season 3: Episode 4: Lucy Mercer & Maggie Millner
No full textFeaturing guests Lucy Mercer and Maggie Millner, and poems by Susannah Dickey, Oluwaseun Olayiwola and Rowan Ricardo Phillips.
In this episode, Jack and Rachael talk couplets, nutlets and cats in poems, among many other things, with Lucy Mercer in the studio and Maggie Millner down the line from New York. Audio postcards are dispatched from Susannah Dickey, Oluwaseun Olayiwola and Rowan Ricardo Phillips
"I've Seen You": A conversation about the Transformative Potential of Working in Partnership
No full textThis chapter represents an afternoon spent in conversation about partnership relationships at the University of Westminster. We aimed to collectively think through what makes partnership relationships transformative and what conditions are necessary to foster transformative learning. We also considered what success and failure might mean in co-creators projects and if these are useful ways of thinking about partnership. We employed this conversational methodology to foreground local experiential knowledge. The chapter is also illustrated with drawings from the session which capture the conversation and emerging thinking in a different form from traditional academic texts
Lucy Mercer Rutherford, companion/mistress of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
No full textLucy Mercer Rutherford, companion/mistress of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, b&w. Label on back reads: Lucy Rutherford (Schintoff portrait) (Their affair was prior to 1918, when it was discovered by Eleanor Roosevelt. Lucy visited Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the White House when he was president and was with him when he died. She was married to Winthrop Rutherford.) (Roosevelt was president from 1933–1945.) This set of roosevelt photos are from Jean Ed. Smith\u27s files and papers used for his book on Franklin Delano Roosevelt.https://mds.marshall.edu/jean_smith_smith_papers/1032/thumbnail.jp
The ‘Partnership Identity’ in Higher Education: Moving From ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ to ‘We’ in Student-Staff Partnership
No full textStudent-staff partnerships in higher education re-frame the ways that students and staff work together as active collaborators in teaching and learning. Such a radical re-visioning of the relationships between students, staff, and the institutions within which they function is both potentially transformational and a significant challenge given the deeply entrenched identities, and attached norms, that form a part of institutional culture. Explicit examination of how identity formation and navigation influences, and is influenced by, student-staff partnership is an important but under-explored area in the partnership literature. Drawing on structured reflective narratives focused on our own partnership experiences, we employ collaborative autoethnographic methods to explore the nexus of partnership and identity through a social identity lens. Results highlight the need to move away from the labelling of dichotomous student/staff roles and identities in the context of partnership to a more nuanced conception that embraces the multiplicity of identity and diverse dimensions of meaning. We highlight the power of the normative conceptions that we attach to different identities, particularly where dissonance arises should those norms conflict. We discuss how this dissonance was particularly salient for us as we crossed the partnership threshold, only to find that the ethos underlying our new partnership identities contradicted the traditional hierarchical structure of the institutions within which we continued to function. Finally, we propose the existence of a ‘partnership identity’ as providing a space where partners might move away from distinctions between group identities of ‘us’ and them’ to a shared space of ‘we’ as partners and colleagues
How to Make the Next Big Global TV Studio Hit
No full textLucy Brown is an award-winning television programme-maker, academic and co-author of The TV Studio Production Handbook. In this session Lucy will reveal insider knowledge on how to make your TV studio show shine and make the next global hit! Lucy and co-author Lyndsay Duthie interviewed leading TV executives from the UK, USA, Australia and China to discover the secrets behind hit international formats across every genre, from reality, to drama to news. The book reading will cover pre-production, casting, scripting and more, and use real life case studies to examine the future of studio and the multiplatform opportunities available for programme makers internationally
Lucy Mercer Rutherford, companion/mistress of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, at Warm springs, 1945
No full textLucy Mercer Rutherford, companion/mistress of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, at Warm Springs, Ga., 1945, b&w. Label on back reads: Lucy Rutherford, Warm Springs, 4/11/45 (Their affair was prior to 1918, when it was discovered by Eleanor Roosevelt. Lucy visited Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the White House when he was president and was with him when he died. She was married to Winthrop Rutherford.) (Roosevelt was president from 1933–1945.) This set of roosevelt photos are from Jean Ed. Smith\u27s files and papers used for his book on Franklin Delano Roosevelt.https://mds.marshall.edu/jean_smith_smith_papers/1033/thumbnail.jp
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