Doron Cohen and Stacey McKnight: Teaching Sensitive Content: Balancing Compassion, Accuracy, and Inclusivity

by EDI Blog | Sep 2, 2024 | Inclusive Education

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion blog About Academics, especially those in the social and health sciences, are often tasked with teaching some of society’s most sensitive and uncomfortable issues. These include discussions about systemic inequalities in health,...

John Roache: The marginality paradox (and how student partnership might help us to solve it)

by EDI Blog | Sep 2, 2024 | Inclusive Education

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion blog About What is marginality? A recent sociological study defines ‘marginality’ as the ‘involuntary position and condition of an individual or group at the margins of social, political, economic, ecological, and biophysical...

Rebecca Phillips: ‘Empowering future generations’: understanding EDI in primary and secondary schools through our annual MIE initial teacher education inclusion conference.

by EDI Blog | Sep 2, 2024 | Inclusive Education

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion blog About Abbreviations used in this text: ITE – Initial Teachers Education ECT – Early Career Teacher MIE – Manchester Institute of Education UoM – University of Manchester PGCE – Postgraduate Certificate in Education...

Christopher Sutton: Inclusive visual healthcare resources

by EDI Blog | Sep 2, 2024 | Inclusive Education

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion blog About For much of healthcare education, the ‘normal body’ as presented in visual teaching resources is White, slim, young, non-disabled, cis-gender and male (Daodu and Ruzycki, 2023). In addition to being ‘inadequate and...

Emma Shiels: The beautiful game, the ugly truth: my struggle with misogyny in football (part 2)

by EDI Blog | Jul 31, 2024 | Uncategorised

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion blog About Bobby Charlton’s mother, Cissie Charlton, once remarked that her love of football was so dear to her, that she “cursed a thousand times over that [she] was born a lass.” As a working-class woman from Manchester...