Five steps towards the decolonization of the curriculum
It seems the word decolonisaiton itself puts up barriers and is problmentic in addressing. What does it mean and what can you do? Here are 5 tips.
Author: Jan Peters
Networking tips for early career scientists and engineers
6 networking tips for early career and PhD scientists and engineers Dr Jan Peters MBE Back at my desk this morning, there was something like 426 browser tabs open. I’d rushed off to join an exercise class after a series of online calls and…
Making the Most (of you) – Bournemouth
You will take away from this workshop a new vocabulary to talk, with confidence, about yourself. Your investment in participating will reward you week after week as you start your journey to become your ‘best self’. Our Making the Most (of you) workshop offers…
Katalytik Inclusion Approach – Innovation Finalists
We’re delighted to find out that our Inclusion approach – our approach to designing inclusion into engineering education – continually evolving, innovating, and infusing inclusion across the teaching landscape has been recognized by the IET. We’re a finalist in the Innovation Awards. After all…
What is an Inclusion Power-Up?
And where did Inclusion Power-up come from? Over lockdowns, I’ve been harnessing my ideation to build a collection of inclusion power-ups. Ways to help engineering teaching colleagues gain confidence in being more inclusive. . I find that every time I speak with someone or…
What’s in a name?
Our names can reveal important clues about who we are, our age, ethnicity, or social class, for example, that can affect how we’re treated by others. Exploring research on names is fascinating in itself.
Four reasons to join a Bookgroup Mastermind
If you buy books or love learning you might already be in a book group or two. But if you find you rarely get round to reading them, then perhaps you need an additional incentive to dig into them? There are at least four…
Extend your network
Few of us work alone these days. We all depend on others to help us deliver our work, daily, weekly or monthly. We tend to drift into routines. Our networks can become limited. So how can you invest a bit of time to enrich…
Improving wellbeing during COVID-19 by valuing differences in people
Improving wellbeing during COVID-19 lockdown Appreciating and valuing others, knowing how our differences can boost or grate, can make lockdown more tolerable and improve everyone’s wellbeing during COVID-19 lockdown. We have all been locked together with people we often don’t spend much time with….
Katalytik end of year summary and newsletter – Winter 2019
Here’s our end of year summary. Sharing event summaries and links to important programmes and research.