Decolonising Acts: Practice, Research and Pedagogy is a symposium that took place on September 18th 2024 at Central St Martins. The event brought together UAL staff to present, celebrate and explore work in the area of decoloniality and was organised by the academic enhancement team.

Find out more about the academic enhancement team: https://www.arts.ac.uk/about-ual/teaching-and-learning-exchange/academic-enhancement

Decolonising Acts: A Practice, Research and Pedagogy

Siobhan Clay is head of Academic Enhancement at UAL.

Decolonising Acts: A Practice, Research and Pedagogy is a symposium that took place on September 18th 2024 at Central St Martins. The event brought together UAL staff to present, celebrate and explore work in the area of decoloniality at UAL and was organised by the academic enhancement team at UAL.

For more information visit: https://www.arts.ac.uk/about-ual/teaching-and-learning-exchange/academic-enhancement

Decolonising Acts: Introduction by Siobhan Clay

Dr Amita Nijhawan is Educational Developer in Co-Creation in the Academic Enhancement team at UAL.

Decolonising Acts: A Practice, Research and Pedagogy is a symposium that took place on September 18th 2024 at Central St Martins. The event brought together UAL staff to present, celebrate and explore work in the area of decoloniality at UAL and was organised by the academic enhancement team.

For more information visit: https://www.arts.ac.uk/about-ual/teaching-and-learning-exchange/academic-enhancement

Decolonising Acts: Introduction by Amita Nijhawan

This plenary discussion was facilitated by Jheni Arboine with speakers Victoria Odeniyi, Kevin Brazant and Carole Morrison

Decolonising Acts: A Practice, Research and Pedagogy is a symposium that took place on September 18th 2024 at Central St Martins. The event brought together UAL staff to present, celebrate and explore work in the area of decoloniality at UAL and was organised by the academic enhancement team.

For more information visit: https://www.arts.ac.uk/about-ual/teaching-and-learning-exchange/academic-enhancement

Decolonising Acts: Plenary discussion

Victoria Odeniyi is an applied linguist. She is a UAL Decolonising Arts Institute Research Fellow and the Institute’s lead for UAL’s Decolonising Arts Education Secondment Scheme. Victoria was a researcher on the ‘Developing Educator’s project at Queen Mary. She was also a research assistant on the Andrew Mellon Foundation funded project Reading Peer Review. Victoria led UAL’s 'Reimagining Conversations' with multilingual international students project (2020-2022) which sought to raise awareness of the educational and creative potential of the use of language. Victoria is an Editorial Board Member of the ‘In Other Words Dictionary Project: A Contextualized Dictionary to Problematize Otherness.

Decolonising Acts: A Practice, Research and Pedagogy is a symposium that took place on September 18th 2024 at Central St Martins. The event brought together UAL staff to present, celebrate and explore work in the area of decoloniality at UAL and was organised by the academic enhancement team.

For more information visit: https://www.arts.ac.uk/about-ual/teaching-and-learning-exchange/academic-enhancement

Decolonising Acts: Victoria Odeniyi

Mia Liyanage is Educational Developer Climate Racial and Social Justice at UAL.

Decolonising Acts: A Practice, Research and Pedagogy is a symposium that took place on September 18th 2024 at Central St Martins. The event brought together UAL staff to present, celebrate and explore work in the area of decoloniality at UAL and was organised by the academic enhancement team at UAL.

For more information visit: https://www.arts.ac.uk/about-ual/teaching-and-learning-exchange/academic-enhancement

Decolonising Acts: Mia Liyanage

Carole Morrison is the Head of Social Purpose in the Curriculum at London College of Fashion (LCF). She co-creates interventions with staff, students and neighbourhoods to explore, promote and embed issues of citizenship, social conscience and ethics into curriculum. Carole has worked in Tate Britain, Arts Council England, A New Direction and Centro Cultural Sao Paulo (Brazil). Her current area of research explores anti-colonial thinking and practice and she is a recipient of the Advance HE Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (2020) and an Associate Member of the LCF Centre for Sustainable Fashion (2024).


Decolonising Acts: A Practice, Research and Pedagogy is a symposium that took place on September 18th 2024 at Central St Martins. The event brought together UAL staff to present, celebrate and explore work in the area of decoloniality at UAL and was organised by the academic enhancement team.

For more information visit: https://www.arts.ac.uk/about-ual/teaching-and-learning-exchange/academic-enhancementv

Decolonising Acts: Carole Morrison

Kevin J Brazant is the Progression and Attainment Project Manager and a Senior Fellow at the London College of Communication (LCC) at UAL. His work prioritises addressing the degree awarding gap at college level. He coordinates the Changemakers initiative, working with students as partners in decolonising, anti-racism and inclusive practices in teaching and learning. His practice research, ‘Disrupting the Discourse’, advocates using disruptive pedagogies for social justice in education.  Kevin uses storytelling, podcasting and digital content creation as part of his platform Lounge Akademics, and collaborates with companies and brands committed to social justice.

Decolonising Acts: A Practice, Research and Pedagogy is a symposium that took place on September 18th 2024 at Central St Martins. The event brought together UAL staff to present, celebrate and explore work in the area of decoloniality at UAL and was organised by the academic enhancement team.

For more information visit: https://www.arts.ac.uk/about-ual/teaching-and-learning-exchange/academic-enhancement

Decolonising Acts: Kevin J Brazant

Interrogating Spaces examines ideas around inclusivity and attainment in Higher Education. In each episode we speak with staff, students and practitioners to explore democratic and decolonised teaching practices.

Interrogating Spaces is brought to you by the Academic Enhancement Team within the Teaching and Learning Exchange at the University of the Arts London.


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Decolonising Acts: A Practice, Research and Pedagogy

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