How can we prepare media and communication students to be change makers, and to use communications to assist in policymaking and in tackling many of the world’s global challenges? How can we best ‘empower’ students to be lifelong learners, and to make a difference? Working within an economically pressured environment of marketisation of education and funding cuts, declining enrolment and demands for wider social inclusion of ethnic minorities, as well as of disadvantages students in order to reduce the attainment gap, how do lectures navigate some of these challenges, continuing to equip learners with the tools needed to succeed in their profession, and to advocate for change in what is a highly complex, global and competitive marketplace? Winner of the best lecture award of City’s Students Union in 2023 for the School of Communication and Creativity at City, University of London, this presentation engages with my philosophy of teaching and with my humanistic approaches to educational psychology, further providing examples of best practice in my over 20 years of teaching in departments of Sociology, Media and Politics across different institutions in the UK (including the teaching on City’s MA in International Communications and Development). This paper will also include examples from my work developing an EDI teaching toolkit, together with the previous AD of EDI, for staff based at City’s Sociology Department.

Authors:
Carolina Matos, City University of London, United Kingdom

About the Presenter(s)
Dr Carolina Matos is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at City, University of London in United Kingdom

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