YSJ, Academic Development Programme
Professional Development for Learning, Teaching and Research
Taking place on Thursday 22 June, this Talk About Teaching event invites members of our community to come together on campus to learn and talk about inclusion, anti-racism and decolonisation in higher education. The event will be held in person but there will be a dedicated online-only panel in the morning, as well as hybrid options […]
Taking place on Thursday 22 June, as part of Talk About Teaching (to Transgress), this online panel event will explore ways of creating and sustaining an anti-racist pedagogy and inclusive curriculum in higher education. Colleagues are welcome to join this session by itself, or as part of the Talk About Teaching event taking place at […]
Please note this series has now passed, but you can read about the 2024/25 series and 2025/26 series from our blogsite. Discussing Decolonisation is a six-part mini-series taking place in person and online across the academic year 2023-24, hosted by the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Team at York St John University (YSJU). The series aims to […]
International student enrolment is increasing at YSJ at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and, whilst this is a fantastic reflection on the experience provided by the University, it also means that academic staff may encounter a different set of student needs. RAIS (Raising Awareness of International Students) is a project established by International Programmes to […]
This is the fourth event of our six-part mini-series, 'Discussing Decolonisation', taking place in person and online across the academic year 2023-24. Find out more and book your place at other events in the series here. Courageous Conversations: What, Why, How? The aim of this interactive Courageous Conversations workshop is to give participants the skills […]
This is the fifth event of our six-part mini-series, ‘Discussing Decolonisation’, taking place in person and online across the academic year 2023-24. Find out more and book your place at other events in the series here. Anti-racist initial teacher education and training in England: the continuing absent presence of race This workshop draws on my research in […]
This is the last event of our ‘Discussing Decolonisation’ series for 2023-24. You can read about the other events we've held in the series here. Decolonial Horizons – A York Community Event: This creative, community-building event is the culmination of a series hosted at York St John over the 2023-24 academic year seeking to interrogate […]
Delivered by Dr Lorna Hamilton and Dr Ruth Knight (YSJU), this CPD session was rescheduled from 1st May and will now take place on Wednesday 26th June, 13.00-15.00pm, in FS/034 and online (hybrid). Abstract: In this session, we aim to facilitate discussion around the drawbacks of traditional models of engagement in the higher education classroom, […]
Please note this series has now passed; however, you can find details about the 2025/26 series here. Recordings from some of our guest lectures will also be available to stream from our website soon. About: Hosted by the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Team at York St John University (YSJU), the Discussing Decolonisation series returns in […]
Join members of the YSJ Anti-Racism and Decolonisation Community of Praxis (ARDP) for an in-person workshop, on campus in York (CD/003), from 2-3.30pm on Wednesday 4th June. During this 90-minute workshop, we will work through the Decolonisation in Higher Education: Questions and Prompts (PDF) in small groups and discuss their implications for decolonisation within our […]
Dedicated to building the decolonising movement in and beyond HE, our 2024/25 summer finale event will take place on campus and online from 10am until 5pm on Wednesday 2nd July (see the event schedule below for hybrid options). The day will include an in-person workshop, hybrid panel discussion and livestreamed keynote by Dr Leon Moosavi […]
RIPPLE (Research Into Professional Practice in Learning and Education) returns in Autumn 2025, beginning with an online reading group session on climate justice education. We will consider the following short chapters from The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World, edited by Sarah Jaquette Ray and Jennifer Wren Atkinson […]
