Development & Training, Discrimination, Good practices, HigherEd, Leadership

A contribution without recognition: My contributions to the AdvanceHE PSF Review 2022

Recently, Advance HE invited ALT Assembly members for a UK Professional Standards Framework (2011) Review Consultation, I registered to attend, mainly because I have been quite critical of some sections of the PSF. This blog sums up some of my suggestions for improvement, these were made during the meeting and also on a Padlet (https://padlet.com/juliebc18/psfconsult),… Continue reading A contribution without recognition: My contributions to the AdvanceHE PSF Review 2022

Gender Empowerment, Legal, Personal Thoughts, Reviews

Celebrating the first Black woman in the US Supreme Court

It is a historic moment with the double celebration of the US Supreme Court welcoming its first Black female member - Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, and four female associate justices serving in the Supreme Court for the first time. US Supreme Court 2022Source: https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/justices.aspx After President Trump appointed female Asso. Justice Amy Coney Barrett,… Continue reading Celebrating the first Black woman in the US Supreme Court

#creativeHE, OER

Embracing creativity and OER for digital equity

It was rather a criss-cross of ideas that came to my mind when deciding on what to write. Until I took a breath and reflected on what are some of the most important things in my professional life. Kaboom! ๐Ÿ’ฅ Connections and Collaborations obviously! OER2022 marks my second participation as ALT's OER committee member, I… Continue reading Embracing creativity and OER for digital equity

Higher Education

Celebrating small steps in HE video series

[This will be a dynamic page, where I will keep adding the videos and blog related to the video series] The Celebrating small steps in HE video series is emanated from several attempts to tackle discrimination in HE, particularly racism, but then I just thought well why not put together my passion for working towards… Continue reading Celebrating small steps in HE video series

#creativeHE, Poems

Prepping for my first poem reading!

Following on from my little venture into #creativeHE, which started from attending the  โ€œLetโ€™s Dance! Play that funky music to facilitate learningโ€ and later materialised into embracing a new project "OER flashcards to raise digital inequalities awareness in the educational sector", I felt I needed to keep incorporating creativity in my own routine to be able… Continue reading Prepping for my first poem reading!

Change Management, Development & Training, Good practices, HigherEd, Self-care

My little “astuce” to professional happiness

Today, is International Day of Happiness, a day where we celebrate being happy, and then sabotage ourselves the remaining 364 days into not being happy. I am writing my thoughts as a reflection on what I have done the last few days to be happy in my professional activities. Of course, there have been several… Continue reading My little “astuce” to professional happiness

Disability, Inclusivity, Mauritius, Projects

A day at the Global Rainbow Foundation, a charity for people with disabilities in the Indian Ocean

I am crowdfunding for GRF on JustGiving. In your donation, you are encouraged to write a note to the benefactor who will be a student with a disability. A few words of encouragement from you will mean a lot to those individuals. If you are contributing anonymously, please include your initials at the end of… Continue reading A day at the Global Rainbow Foundation, a charity for people with disabilities in the Indian Ocean

ALT, Antiracism, ARLT SIG, Development & Training, Good practices, Inclusivity, Recruitment

Taking an action-oriented approach to recruitment – Steps 1 & 2 ONLY – My ARLT SIG presentation 9th March 2022

This post is solely for the purpose of an activity I am running on 9th March for ARLTSIG. Ice-breaker prompts: Is your team/dept recruiting at the moment? Or did you recruit recently? How many vacancies are/were available? Or do you plan to recruit in the near future? https://teeroumaneenadan.com/2021/12/22/equity-analysis-of-job-blurbs-talkinghe-podcast/ Watch out for the language you use… Continue reading Taking an action-oriented approach to recruitment – Steps 1 & 2 ONLY – My ARLT SIG presentation 9th March 2022

Change Management, Gender Empowerment, Inclusivity, Leadership, Recruitment, Strategic Change

Ouch! Another year on, and your board room is still with 1 black woman, still better, she ticks other boxes too

Today is the day when organisations will publish statements of how great they have been working towards women empowerment, and some will even throw in the UN SDG5 for a top-notch touch. The day, when the world acknowledges the 49.6% of humans alive! A few days back EM2030 made it clear that the 2030 gender… Continue reading Ouch! Another year on, and your board room is still with 1 black woman, still better, she ticks other boxes too

Antiracism, Celebrating Small Steps in HE, Discrimination, Good practices, HigherEd, Inclusivity, Recruitment

A positive step towards reducing discrimination in recruitment – A case study of UAL

Are you an active antiracist looking to make a difference in the recruitment process in your team and department? This blog features: An interview with Matt Lingard, highlighting the small steps he undertook to positively tackle racism in the recruitment processConsiderations if you wish to implement such an approachHow to further effectively eliminate discrimination in… Continue reading A positive step towards reducing discrimination in recruitment – A case study of UAL

ALT, Antiracism, ARLT SIG, Development & Training, Good practices, Inclusivity, Recruitment

Improvising it – My ARLT SIG activity for 10th Feb 2022

The best growth opportunity for any facilitator is to improvise. So, when event Chair suddenly dropped from the call, I had to improvise as I was not kept in the loop of what was planned. Fortunately, I eat challenges for breakfast. This post summarises the activity I ran on 10th Feb for ARLT SIG, which… Continue reading Improvising it – My ARLT SIG activity for 10th Feb 2022