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How might we create a kinder culture? Stricter press regulations, more mental health awareness, and acts of kindness are some of the affirmative suggestions that have been made in response to the tragic event of Caroline Flack's passing. This inspired me to raise awareness with the current students I teach, with the aim that we can all work together to facilitate an open and kinder culture at College as well as in wider society. This task asked the students to discuss the fac

This creative activity is one of the series of games I have created and implemented during my post as Assistant Lecturer on the module PO314: Introduction to Political Theory at the University of Kent (2017/18). By adapting some of the art installations I created for (and contributed to) the Fairground at Tate Exchange in April 2017 (a collaborative week-long workshop by University of Kent, CCCU, People United, ValleyKids and Whitstable biennale), I constructed an interactive

This creative activity is one of the series of games I have created and implemented during my post as Assistant Lecturer on the module PO314: Introduction to Political Theory at the University of Kent (2017/18). Inspired by the Privilege Walk exercise,[1] I designed this activity to show the different social positions that each of my students have that can be seen as head-starts in terms of equality of opportunity. Providing Lego bricks, I asked the students to build a Lego t

This creative activity is one of the series of games I have created and implemented during my post as Assistant Lecturer on the module PO314: Introduction to Political Theory at the University of Kent (2017/18). In the festive spirit of Halloween, I provided two blow-up skeletons and a selection of hand cut bone, bat, and pumpkin templates for my students to write on (see images), and I invited my students to decorate their skeleton with qualities they think define a human. I

This activity is one of the series of games I have created and implemented during my post as Assistant Lecturer on the module PO314: Introduction to Political Theory at the University of Kent (2017/18). Drawing inspiration from the small group exercise Competence[1], I designed a decision-making game in which students were invited to become “representative politicians”. In turns, each student picked a classmate’s name and a question from the respective bags and was required t

This creative activity is one of the series of games I have created and implemented during my post as Assistant Lecturer on the module PO314: Introduction to Political Theory at the University of Kent (2017/18). Deriving from the game Rotating Corpse, this drawing task invited the students to collaboratively sketch a “Political Theorist” (see the images for a selection of samples). With the exception of two out of 50, the drawings depicted the “Political Theorists” as old whi