YSJ, Academic Development Programme
Professional Development for Learning, Teaching and Research
About: Following last year's event series, ‘Discussing Decolonisation’ returns in 2024/25 with a series of talks and workshops taking place in person and online across the academic year. The series is hosted by the Teaching and Learning Enhancement (TLE) Team at York St John University (YSJU), and aims to showcase the vital work staff and […]
About: The Discussing Decolonisation Reading Group (DDRG) is a new, cross-disciplinary reading and discussion group that will run alongside YSJ's Discussing Decolonisation event series for 2024/25. The task of decolonising higher education requires us to engage in sustained thinking, reading and discussion about the history, theory and politics of colonialism and ongoing anti-colonial resistance, as […]
Following our launch event in October 2024, the second event in our 2024/25 Discussing Decolonisation series will be an in-person roundtable featuring 3 or 4 short position papers from YSJ colleagues, followed by collective discussion and debate. This event will take place from 3-5pm on Friday 22nd November. Colleagues are welcome to join us in […]
Decolonising Writing In this workshop, we’ll explore and practice techniques that writers and storytellers use to make their writing come alive. We will explore evocative and descriptive writing, space and character, and metaphor and tension in the context of creative, performative, autoethnographic and academic pieces of writing. We’ll reflect on how these techniques help us disrupt […]
