History UK fellowship – history skills passport mapping exercise

History UK is launching a new initiative to develop a history ‘skills passport’. This project will provide a framework for translating the skills that students develop on history courses into the skills language recognised by employers. The aim is to Continue reading History UK fellowship – history skills passport mapping exercise

Closure of History provision at Kingston University

History UK has learnt that on 21 April 2021 History staff at Kingston University were informed that the BA History and MA History degrees were now closed, and that the remaining three History staff would face compulsory redundancy. Since the Continue reading Closure of History provision at Kingston University

Pandemic Pedagogy: A student perspective 1

By Conor Penna-FitzGerald (University of Roehampton) My name is Conor Penna-FitzGerald and I am a postgraduate history student at the University of Roehampton. My project analysed how students experienced online learning during the pandemic in comparison to the ‘normal’ classroom Continue reading Pandemic Pedagogy: A student perspective 1

Pandemic Pedagogy 2.0: A summary

As we bring our series of blog posts following up on the Pandemic Pedagogy initiative to a close, we thought it would be useful to summarise the interesting contributions that we’ve received. Looking back through them, we thought that they Continue reading Pandemic Pedagogy 2.0: A summary

Pandemic Pedagogy 2.0: Emma Battell Lowman – Compassion in the Classroom during COVID

In our next post in our Pandemic Pedagogy 2.0 series, Emma Battell Lowman, of the University of Leicester, discusses the importance of building a relationship between staff that is reciprocally compassionate (inside and outside the classroom), especially during the pandemic.   Continue reading Pandemic Pedagogy 2.0: Emma Battell Lowman – Compassion in the Classroom during COVID