Activities

”That’s so gay” - Addressing excluding behaviour and bigotry: Replace inaction with inclusive and effective approaches – 60 min webinar

Date: February 23, 2022 - 13.00-14.00

Venue: Online webinar via Zoom, link available when you register

This workshop was first offered at the  Dansk Universitetspædagogisk Netværk Conference, October 7, 2021. The workshop was designed by Donna Hurford, SDU; Stacey Cozart, AU; Peter Bjelskou, SDU; Valeria Borsotti, KU.

The webinar is available to all who work in HEIs. This webinar’s rationale is to help teachers achieve inclusive, unbiased learning environments, through an interconnected treatment of:

1. Creating inclusive and effective learning environments not derailed by incivility or excluding behavior
2. Ensuring student well-being by a prompt handling of hateful, or otherwise problematic, utterances whether they occur online or in person
3. Helping teachers to not experience paralysis of inaction or delayed response in dealing with incivility
4. Recognizing the importance to tackle prejudiced language and behaviors

Content and Structure
We shall start by discussing a selection of online and in person teaching and learning vignettes, participants will be invited to start identifying factors which may contribute to inclusive behaviour, incivility, excluding behaviour and/or bigotry.

This will be followed by a short review of international studies, identifying factors contributing to inclusive learning environments (Hockings, 2010) and a suite of reflective practice approaches (Schön, 1983) designed to pre-empt and mitigate incivility and excluding behavior (Toker et al., 2021; Clark et al., 2012; Galbraith and Jones, 2010)

Pre-emptive and mitigative actions
Drawing on your own experiences, the original vignettes, and a reflective practice scaffold, participant groups will evaluate and develop in-action and on-action approaches designed to pre-empt and mitigate incivility, excluding behavior and bigotry.

Ways forward
Participants are invited to share their take-aways from the workshop and their recommendations for further development of pre-emptive and mitigative actions.

Expected Learning Outcomes
Participants will have opportunities to reflect on:

• Ways to promote inclusive teaching and learning environments
• Our roles and responsibilities when confronted with incivility and excluding behaviors
• Actions for pre-empting and mitigating incivility and excluding behaviors

Literature
Clark, Cynthia M., Ahten, Sara., & Werth, Loredana., (2012) ‘Cyber-Bullying and Incivility in an Online Learning Environment, Part 2 Promoting Student Success in the Virtual Classroom.’ Nurse Educator 37(5), pp. 192-197.
Galbraith, Michael W. & Jones, Melanie S., (2010) ‘Understanding Incivility in Online Teaching.’ Journal of Adult Education 39(2), pp. 1-10
Hockings, Christine. (2010). ‘Inclusive teaching and learning in higher education: a synthesis of research’. Available from 
 https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/inclusive-learning-and-teaching-higher-education-synthesis-research
Schön, Donald A. (1983) The Reflective Practitioner. How Professionals Think in Action. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
Toker, Sacip. & Baturay, Meltem Huri. (2021) ‘Factors affecting cyberloafing in computer laboratory teaching settings’ International Journal of Educational Technology in HE 18(20)  https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-021-00250-5 link

Brown Bag lunch meeting

The meeting is free and open to all

Date: April 22, 2021, 12.00-13.00

Venue: Zoom via this  link 

Registration is not required

The BATL SIG held its first Brown Bag lunch-time meeting in March 2021, where we shared our experiences of inclusive and bias-aware teaching and learning. The opportunity to meet and share experiences was welcomed and we all agreed we would continue with these informal and supportive lunch-time meetings.

You are most welcome to join our next Brown Bag where we shall continue sharing and collating experiences of inclusive and bias-aware teaching and learning. We shall also begin discussing what we could share at the DUN Conference in October. All are welcome to join us, bring your lunch and join our friendly and inclusive discussion.

Open workshop: Implicit Bias in Oral Assessment: The Case of Roskilde University

The meeting is open to all

Date: November 7, 2019, 10.00-14.30

Venue: Roskilde University, Universitetsvej 1, 4000 Roskilde

Registration: Email  Donna Hurford 

The BATL SIG is delighted to invite you to a workshop on Bias and Assessment at Roskilde University. 

The workshop will include a presentation by  Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic and  Eva Mayerhöffer  on their research findings from the project outlined below, followed by a workshop on assessment and bias. 
There will be time for some additional items and you are welcome to email your suggestions to Donna Hurford. 

The final program will be circulated later in October.

The workshop will be conducted in English. 

Presentation of the project
In the project, we look into the special case of oral group examinations of project work at Roskilde University and ask how implicit bias come into play in these oral assessments and what measures can be taken, at institutional as well as individual level, to mitigate such biases. We combine a literature review on implicit bias that maps out the different types of biases potentially at stake in oral assessment with autoethnography and informal focus groups with RUC teaching staff. Based on our empirical findings, we present and discuss six vignettes that illustrate a number of critical dimensions of oral assessment that require attention in order to mitigate potential implicit bias.

The research was done as part of our final report for the CUTL-certificate, The Certificate of University Teaching and Learning. At the same time, Ditte is researching implicit biases and dissemination more generally as part of her Carlsberg postdoctoral project:  “Implicit bias: Don’t trust your gut feeling”.

SIG-meeting at DUN Conference 2019

The meeting is open to all.

Date: May 28, 2019, 14.50-15.35

Venue: Radisson Blu H. C. Andersen Hotel, Claus Bergs Gade 7, 5000 Odense C

Come and hear about the BATL SIG and how it can be relevant for you and your courses and departments. Bias, both conscious and unconscious, can lead to discrimination and reduction in novelty, both of which contravene the principles of higher education. BATL’s focus is on how to address bias at universities, particularly in teaching, learning and assessment but also more widely in recruitment and promotion. At DUNK we shall share BATL members’ current ideas on ways to keep the SIG active and purposeful, and we shall welcome further ideas from you all. Looking forward to meeting you.

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First Face to Face Meeting - Bias Aware Teaching and Learning, BATL

The meeting is open to all.

Date: April 1, 2019, 12.00-15.00

Venue: IT University of Copenhagen, Room 2A08, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 Copenhagen S
The closest Metro stop is DR Byen

Registration Deadline: March 26, 2019

Registration: Email Donna Hurford  dhu@sdu.dk and please write if you have any dietary needs.

This is a new DUN SIG, and we welcome interest from all working in Higher Education who share an interest in how to raise awareness of bias and address its impact on teaching, learning and assessment.

To keep the SIG as inclusive as possible, we are welcoming interest from colleagues in Denmark and Sweden. My proposal is that we use English as our lingua franca, however, let’s discuss this at our first meeting.

Please review the agenda and let me know if you would like to lead or co-lead any of the sessions. And, come prepared to share a 2 minute introduction about yourself, as noted in the agenda.

Meeting Host: Valeria Borsotti, Special Advisor - Diversity & Inclusion, T: (45) 7218 5294,  vbor@itu.dk

Agenda
(Timings will be adjusted, depending on how many of us attend the meeting)

12.00-12.30	Welcome, informal getting to know each orther over a sandwich lunch, tea and coffee.
12.30-13.00	Introductions Please come prepared to share a two minute introduction to you and your role in Higher Education and your interest in BATL.
13.00-13.45	Please review the current description of the  BATL SIG, which includes purpose and objectives. During this session, we shall discuss the current purpose and objectives of the SIG and decide on any editing.
13.45-14.00	Break
14.00-14.45	Activity which invites us to focus on what do we want to achieve, learn, research, collaborate on, disseminate…  through the SIG in 2019 and maybe a more long-term perspective.
14.45-15.00	Next meeting Are BATL SIG members planning to attend the  DUN Conference? If so, we could host a meeting there.

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New SIG - opening meeting on Skype for Business

The meeting is open to all.

Date: November 28, 2018, 12.00-13.00

Venue: Skype for Business 

Registration:  Donna Hurford  dhu@sdu.dk - you will be sent the link to join the Skype Meeting 

Welcome to Bias Aware Teaching and Learning, BATL, a new DUN SIG.

The first meeting will be by in Skype for Business. We are interested in recruiting individual members and in connecting with other DUN SIGs. If you are interested in attending the launch meeting and/or joining the SIG, email Donna Hurford  dhu@sdu.dk and you will be sent the link to join the Skype Meeting.

All the best, 
Donna Hurford, SDU, and Emma Hammarlund, SDU, (BATL SIG Coordinators)

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Discover your own teaching biases and ways to address them - half-day course

Date: March 8, 2017, 13.00-16.00
Venue: University of Southern Denmark, Campus Odense

Info and registration 

There are places available on this half-day course. We all have biases. During this course we'll look into how they may influence our teaching, students' learning and assessment processes and most importantly, how we can limit their impact  by drawing on strategies from our and other universities' practices  and  Inclusion Nudges .

Workshop teachers: Emma Hammarlund and Donna Hurford, University of Southern Denmark

The one-day workshop Stereotyping in science – from knowledge to action

The Festa group (Female empowerment in Science and Technology Academia) organize an exciting program with focus on actions to respect and utilize diversity within academia.

Date: 25th of August 2016

Further information will follow.

Eileen Trauth from Penn State will talk about Gender barriers in the Academy: Research-informed interventions

Date: 26th of October 2015, at 11.15-13.00

 BMB seminar room , Southern University of Denmark, Campus Odense, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M

Registration: Send an email to Liv Baisner  baisner@sdu.dk

Eileen Trauth also holds an open pedagogical course on ’Gender aware teaching, learning and assessment’.  

Perhaps something for you or teachers-to-be at your department.

Date: 29th of October 2015, at 9.00-13.00

 Meeting room Comenius , Southern University of Denmark, Campus Odense, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M

Deadline: 20th of October 2015

 Information and registration