Workshops
Leveraging Engagement through Diversity
Workshop Presentation Gordon Haley
Research has shown having people who are highly talented and who are committed and engaged are critical to the success of organizations. When these individuals are truly engaged, they will work harder to achieve positive organizational outcomes. Using Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s, ”Tale of O” and Jane Elliott’s “Eye of the Storm" as catalysts for discussion, this will be an interactive, experiential session, exploring the physical, emotional, and cognitive dimensions of engagement. In this workshop participants will have the opportunity to discuss, debate, and brainstorm universally strategies for using diversity to human engagement that can be customized to meet the unique needs of their organizations through leveraging diversity.
From Small Seeds: Fairness Project, Spreading Good Practice in Preparing Diverse Student Cohorts for Discriminatory Graduate Professions
Workshop Presentation Tina McKee, Rachel Nir
This interactive workshop will show how teaching materials designed for a student cohort at a Northern English university have been picked up by seven other English universities for use in their classrooms. What started as an inclusive remedy enabling students from lower socio-economic or BAME backgrounds to better access graduate careers at the University of Central Lancashire, has turned into a "pass-it-on" message benefiting a much wider group of students at a range of institutions. The authors of this social justice project will talk about both the teaching and learning materials and how they have disseminated this good practice successfully to date. The workshop will include a chance to participate in some of the interactive classroom tasks together with an evaluation of the results of student surveys on the benefits of taking part in the Fairness Project seminars.
