Tag: education
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King’s Impact Fellowship
I’m delighted to share that I’ve been selected as an Impact Fellow in the third cohort of KCL’s Humanities Impact Fellowship programme. It’s a six-month programme that helps researchers deepen and extend the public impact of their work — I’ll be using the opportunity to focus on the Gen Z Role Models project. If you’ve…
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Transitioning to King’s
They say that while change can happen instantly, transitions can take ages. Moving to King’s was, for me, a big change. Eleven years in Oxford—first as a postgraduate, then as a postdoc—meant that the rhythms of that place had become second nature. I arrived expecting to be there for just nine months, a brief academic…
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Reflections on 2024: A Year of Growth and Opportunity
As I pause to look back on 2024, I marvel at how transformative this year has been. It’s been a journey of new opportunities, significant milestones, and meaningful transitions—all setting the stage for what lies ahead. From Oxford to King’s College London 2024 was marked with an intensive focus on developing and launching the Gen…
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Gen Z Phase 2: Participatory Research
Last month, my collaborators and I launched Phase 2 of our Gen Z study. Generously supported by Oxford’s John Fell Fund, Phase 2 makes good on our study’s participatory ethos. Through an online form, we give participants an overview of our analysis. They then comment on our analysis. Finally, they tell us about their ideal…
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Understanding Gen Z’s Religious and Spiritual Role Models: Part 2
Thanks to the University of Oxford’s graduate access programme, UNIQ+, three interns will join me and Claire as research assistants on the ‘Understanding Generation Z’s Religious and Spiritual Role Models’ project. We are absolutely thrilled and are busy planning a packed research agenda for them … and for us. Our main task is to produce…
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Collaborative seminars in Christian Ethics: a case study in student-staff partnerships
According to the Oxford’s Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL), student-staff partnerships are “a form of student engagement where students and staff work together to achieve a specific aim. Incorporating this approach to teaching and learning activities can lead to positive personal and educational transformations, enriching the educational experience for [everyone].”1 I’m delighted that CTL…
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