Welcome to my new initiative - ideas room with a coffee in your hand! Virtual Coffee Ideas Room - image with a laptop, phone, diary, coffee and chocolate For the past few years, I have found myself restrained by institutional policies which limit a free and safe space for People of Colour to speak of… Continue reading Antiracism & Inclusion Virtual Coffee Ideas Room
Category: Being visible
Recording of my #atlc22 Open Mic
An event organised as part of the #altc22 socials by PipMcDonald. I am really grateful for the opportunity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoBDJqKa_l8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoBDJqKa_l8
YOU are forgetting me! Open Mic
This is a poem of mine that I am reading for the first-ever #altc22 open mic event today. I hope this blog and poem will inspire attendees to the #altc22 conference to look into diversity and beg us all to question the status quo. For reference, please visit my blog post on 'Changing Changing mindsets… Continue reading YOU are forgetting me! Open Mic
Recording of my creativeHe inaugural Open Mic
An event organised under creativeHE by PipMcDonald & Tom Burns. I am really grateful for the opportunity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed7tdjBgAP0 A recording of the full event, with other participants, is available too. https://youtu.be/2z7Vezcph20
Celebrating World Creativity & Innovation with #creativeHE
What I have been up to since I started the first draft of my first poem? Well, 'I Noticed' evolved into something more like Eye Noticed. Recently, I have been trying to find some creative ways of tackling racism within UK HE and Eye Noticed was inspired from personal experience as a victim of continuous… Continue reading Celebrating World Creativity & Innovation with #creativeHE
How and why I resumed blogging?
Thanks to a Google Hangout organised by jobs.ac.uk (watch video here or read notes here), I got back to blogging, and this time more efficiently. Not only was I blogging, but I was promoting myself more on other social platforms. I first started my blog on blogger in 2010, with seldom posts about the more… Continue reading How and why I resumed blogging?