Inclusivity  - Are we trying to hard?

Inclusivity  - Are we trying to hard?

Professor Angela O'Sullivan

Angela champions inclusive practice and widening access as Professor Emerita of Inclusive Practice in Teaching & Learning at De Montfort University, Leicester.  She is a strong advocate for Universal Design for Learning and promotes different inclusive styles of teaching, learning and assessment. She is a Principal Fellow of the HEA, an Advance HE National Teaching Fellow and led a successful inter-disciplinary Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence team. Angela is co-chair of the Association for Academic Outreach and a member of the Advance HE Committee of the Association of National Teaching Fellows, the International Federation of National Teaching Fellows, and the newly formed CATE-Net group. She was awarded the National Education Opportunities Network (NEON) Outstanding Contribution to Widening Access Award in 2022. 

In this lecture Angela considers what inclusivity really means and encourages   self-reflection on inclusive practice to consider whether we are inadvertently creating barriers to learning whilst our intention is to widen access. Angela shares her ‘Open Field’ model of inclusive practice which focuses on the dynamic student, the importance of the student voice and the essential component of choice.