Given the statistic that approximately 15-20% of the worldwide population is neurodivergent (Doyle, 2020 in Le Cunff et al. 2023), along with the data from the UAL Equality, Diversity and Inclusion report from 2022/23, in which 15% of students declared a disability, I am keen to implement strategies to make the sample library inclusive for […]
BAME awarding gap According to the UAL Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Annual report 2021/22, The Attainment Gap for 2021/22, also known as The Awarding Gap, showed that “the gap between the highest attainment (White students) and the lowest attainment (Other students) was 19ppt, this decreased slightly from the previous year where it was 24ppt (between […]
In the UK, the educational calendar is catered towards the Christian Calendar, with timetabled breaks coinciding with events such as Easter and Christmas. According to the 2021 census, 46% of the UK population identified as Christian (Zayed, 2024), compared to only 9-15% of students studying at UAL, according to Student data from the 2022-2023 academic […]
‘Intersectionality’ was coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in a 1989 essay focussing on the discrimination of Black Women. The term was introduced to address how “the interconnected nature of social categorisations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage”(Oxford Dictionary, 2023). In an interview with Paralympic medallist and presenter Ade […]
Diversifying the Stitch Sample Library Context: Currently, the variety of samples in the Stitch Workshop at Chelsea is being expanded. This resource is used in inductions and workshops to refer to and inspire students, as well as to access when creating independently. For the object-based learning micro teaching session in Unit 1, a variety of […]