Politics and Pedagogy

Welcome to Season Four of Politics and Pedagogy ' Championing Education Communities ', where we will be speaking to game changers in the field of higher education about the importance of communities for political studies. This week we are joined by Co-Directors of Pedagogical Research Centres from three Politics and International Studies departments across the UK: Prof. Simon Lightfoot from the Ce...

Welcome to Season Four of Politics and Pedagogy ' Championing Education Communities ', where we will be speaking to game changers in the field of higher education about the importance of communities for political studies. For our second episode we are joined by the founders and board of the newly established ' Journal of Global Higher Education', Sylvie Lomer , Charles Mathies , Jenna Mittelmeier...

Welcome to Season Four of Politics and Pedagogy 'Championing Education Communities', where we will be speaking to game changers in the field of higher education about the importance of communities for political studies. In this first episode we are joined by Professor Rose Gann and Dr Emma Foster . Rose Gann is Professor of Politics Education at Nottingham Trent University (NTU), the Chair of Poli...

BONUS EPISODE: In this bonus episode on student voice we speak to Sean Wong and Chloe Simpson, second year International Relations Students (BA) Hons at the University of Leeds, about their exhibit Memory, Resistance and Survival: Legacies of the Latin American Imaginary. You can also read Chloe's brilliant blog here . Podcast: The Centre for Teaching Innovation and Scholarship (CTIS) at the Unive...

Episode: Welcome to a very special episode of Politics and Pedagogy where we are launching the The Academic Scholarship in Politics and International Relations Education Network or ASPIRE Network . ASPIRE is dedicated to supporting academics on the teaching intensive career path within Politics and International Relations. The networks core aim is to empower members to navigate their careers more...

Season 3: Season 3 all centered on Students Voice. This season we will hear from students studying or graduating from Politics and International Studies programmes. Episode 3: In this episode we welcome Dr Anna Grimaldi, a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Leeds, alongside POLIS graduates Elisa Martinez Relano and Caroline Tonglet. In this episode they share the...

Season 3: We are back for Season 3 which is all centered on Students Voice. This season we will hear from students studying or graduating from Politics and International Studies programmes. Episode 2: In this episode we welcome Dr Gary Hernandez, Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes, and Hafizh Armaghani, who is studying a MA in International Relations, both at the University of Leeds. The co...

Season 3: We are back for Season 3 which is all centered on Students Voice. This season we will hear from students studying or graduating from Politics and International Studies programmes. Episode 1: Our first episode is the most powerful conversation we have had on 'Politics and Pedagogy'- we hear from students who entered their degrees through the Social Science Foundation Year programme at the...

In Season 2 we are exploring ideas of Criticality, Creativity and Care. In this episode we are joined by Dr Laura Loyola Hernández , Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leeds and Dr Roxani Krystalli Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Feminist Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of St Andrews. In this conversation we talk about the importance of care both for our students and o...

Welcome back to Season 2! This season we will explore ideas of Criticality, Creativity and Care. Episode : In this episode we are joined by Dr Maha Rafi Atal Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Glasgow, Dr Rhys Crilley Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Glasgow, and Prof. Jack Holland Professor of Global Security Challenges at the University of Leeds. In this e...

Welcome back to Season 2! This season we will explore ideas of Criticality, Creativity and Care. In this first episode we invite Dr Ida Birkvad , Fellow in Political Theory in the Department of International Relations at LSE, and Dr Alexander Stoffel , Lecturer in International Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London, to discuss the idea of...

In this mini episode Louise and Madeleine discuss their key (un)learnings and takeaways from Season One. Reflecting on their positionality they examine where their own white fragility came up in the series, intellectualizing vs practicing reflexivity and the importance of community. Season Two is coming soon! If you have an idea for an episode please get in touch with Madeleine or Louise . Episode...

Episode Three: For the last our conversations we welcome to the podcast Prof. Robbie Shilliam , Professor in International Relations at Johns Hopkins University and Dr Olivia U. Rutazibwa , Assistant Professor in Human Rights and Politics at London School of Economics. In this episode we explore the difference between good pedagogy and decolonial pedagogy, hierarchies in the classroom, as well as...

Episode Two: For our second episode we are joined by Dr Sharon Stein Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia, and Dalila P. Coelho a Ph. D researcher at the University of Porto. In this episode we ask if 'confronting coloniality' provides a better framing for our pedagogical work, what we can (un)learn from the field of Global Education an...

Episode one: In our first episode we are joined by Dr Lata Narayanaswamy Associate Professor in the Politics of Global Development at the University of Leeds and Dr Sayan Dey Postdoctoral Fellow at WITS Centre for Diversity Studies, University of Witwatersrand who generously share their thoughts on the possibilities and limits of decolonial approaches to education, the value of silence and reflect...