Decolonisation in higher education

Advice on decolonising the curriculum across different disciplines and unpicking the impact of colonial and Western power structures on higher education and models of teaching and learning. These resources aim to help academics enrich education and scholarship through decolonisation, bringing in previously overlooked knowledge and voices and challenging long accepted norms within higher education.

By Miranda Prynne, 22 November, 2022
Academics and students from five countries worked together to decolonise a reading list for a public health module, through a global lens. Here, they describe how they did it
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 20 July, 2022
A panel of academics from Campus+ institutions in the UK and Australia discuss the what, why and how of decolonising the curriculum
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60minutes
By dene.mullen, 4 May, 2022
People today seem to want their history to be linear and totalising, but it is only by addressing the messiness of the past that we can understand the present
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4minutes
By Miranda Prynne, 14 April, 2022
The decolonisation of medicine involves making students active agents of their learning and designing assessments relevant to the skills gained through the process, as Musarrat Maisha Reza explains in her second advice resource on the topic
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3minutes
By Miranda Prynne, 13 April, 2022
Decolonisation should not be limited to arts and social sciences, but many struggle with how to apply it across STEM disciplines. In her first resource, Musarrat Maisha Reza shares advice on effective approaches to decolonising medicine
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3minutes