LSE Education Forums

Winter Term Forum 2025

Monday 24 March

Principled Spaces and Inclusive Pedagogies

In March 2023, the Education Forum focussed on inclusive education. Since then, both LSE and the wider HE sector have experienced significant changes, including the approval of our new Access and Participation Plan and increased emphasis from the EHRC on anticipatory duty and assessment. Additionally, we have faced numerous challenges from the broader world, underscoring the need to ensure that students and staff can fully participate in the classroom at LSE.

This term's Education Forum focused on the theme of Principled Spaces and Inclusive Pedagogies exploring how educators can create and sustain environments that are enabling for all students. Through panel discussions and interactive interventions, we aimed to share insights and strategies for fostering inclusive and supportive educational spaces.

Speakers:

Professor Shakuntala Banaji, Department of Media and Communications

 Reflexivity and discomfort: The Challenge of Educating for Justice

Professor Ronny Razin, Department of Economics

Responsibilities of Teachers in Teaching Diverse groups

Dr Justice Aina, Department of Social Policy

Positionality in Teaching and Learning 

Autumn Term Forum 2024

Tuesday 22 October

Making Feedback work for you and your students

What makes feedback effective for our students' learning and engagement? How can we make the task of giving feedback work efficiently and effectively for staff? Our AT Education Forum looked at learning from colleagues' practices, sharing challenges and concerns, and discussing ways to ensure that our efforts to enhance feedback practices are having a positive impact on students and staff.

Download the schedule here

Watch videos from the event here via our Eden Centre YouTube page

Winter Term Education Forum (Wednesday 14 February)

Generative AI and Education

The rapid rise in Generative AI tools is prompting us all to reflect on our approaches to educational practices. In the Winter Term Education Forum, we aimed to give LSE students and staff the space to explore how and where they are are already using these tools in their teaching and learning and what the implications of this might be for our community.

We heard from members of the Student Education Panel, who explored the theme at a recent meeting, as well as staff who are integrating generative AI into their teaching and assessment. There was a chance for attendees to discuss their own experiences and to raise any questions, concerns, or suggestions about our future approaches.

You can watch videos of our colleagues' presentations here.

Autumn Term Education Forum - Thursday 19 October 

Student Voice at LSE: moving forward from discussion to impact

Student voice has become a growing area of interest in UK higher education, underlined by recent National Student Survey scores. The Autumn term Education Forum focused on how the LSE community understands student voice and explore ways in which colleagues are embedding student feedback and experiences into their everyday practices in the classroom and beyond. We heard from both staff and students, and worked together to develop a stronger understanding of student voice so that all our students genuinely feel their voices are heard during their time at LSE.

Download the Forum schedule here