Race Update 9 – Mia Liyanage, ‘Miseducation: decolonising curricula, culture and pedagogy in UK universities’, HEPI Report (July 2020)

by shahmimaakhtar | 29 Jul 2020 | Race Update, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

Using testimony from sixteen interview respondents across academia, activism and policy, this HEPI Report addresses the common misconceptions about decolonisation and recommends a series of practical steps towards its implementation. It argues that decolonisation is...

Curriculum Conference Report

by royalhistsoc | 07 Jul 2020 | Online Events, Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

From 23-30 April 2020, the RHS hosted its first Virtual Curriculum conference. The event had originally been designed as a one-day workshop to be held in the RHS offices on 23 April. Instead, registered participants were invited to read, watch and listen to a range of...

Race Update 7 – RHS Virtual Workshop on the impact of the Covid Crisis on BME Student Admissions in Higher Education, 18 June 2020

by shahmimaakhtar | 22 Jun 2020 | Race Update

On the 18 June 2020, RHS hosted a Zoom discussion on predicted grades, university admissions and BME students, using History as an exemplar case. Following the government decision to cancel summer examinations, this year’s GCSE and A-Level grades will be predicted by...

Getting Heads Together: Reflections on the first RHS History HoDs Meeting

by | 10 Oct 2019 | RHS Work

What’s it like to head up a History department? What challenges and opportunities do History HoDs face, and what’s the best way of responding to them? In May 2019, over 20 Heads of UK History departments gathered under the auspices of the RHS to compare notes, share...

Global History for Schools

by | 09 Oct 2018 | Guest Posts, Teaching Portal

October is Black History Month, and following on from our Global History Symposium this summer, Prof. Miles Larmer introduces the Oxford History Faculty’s new range of resources for schools, designed to help them offer a more diverse curriculum. How do we create...