by emgregory2020 | 14 Dec 2020 | Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students
In this post, Dr Andrew Foster offers guidance to PhD research students about how to make sense of their research during the PhD process. His guidance offers to encourage students through the highs and lows of research, and poses a series of questions to support...
by emgregory2020 | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: Careers, Teaching Portal: Transitions in HE
In this post, Dr Eilish Gregory, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Royal Historical Society and an early career researcher, offers an account of her own personal experience of studying her PhD as a self-funded student. While there were many scholarly and personal...
by royalhistsoc | 27 Nov 2020 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules
The cohort of students who study History at SOAS is one of the most diverse in the UK but the findings of the RHS’s Race and Equality Report have been highly pertinent to departmental discussions about inclusive pedagogy. Dr Eleanor Newbigin, Senior Lecturer in the...
by royalhistsoc | 27 Nov 2020 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules
In the current political juncture, we are witnessing wide-ranging calls to decolonise the curriculum. Many are now campaigning to ensure that history teaching within the UK incorporates histories of British imperialism and, more specifically, Black British History....
by royalhistsoc | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers
In July 2018, Professor Julie Anderson, Professor of Modern History at the University of Kent, was the first winner of the Royal Historical Society’s Jinty Nelson Award for Inspirational Teaching and Supervision in History. Here she provides an account of her...