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Teach Talk: Inclusive Teaching Practices

Professional Development

13/5/2025 @ 13.00 on TEAMS

In this Teach Talk we had two Marjon academics, Alex Mallinson and Jonathan Harvey discussing different aspects of inclusivity.

Designing for success: seeking reasonable adjustments on placement.

Alex Mallison

Time: 13.00-13.30

About Alex: Alex is Programme Lead for the BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Therapy and the Reasonable Adjustments for Placement Lead. She is also studying for a part time PhD examining the experiences of disabled speech and language therapy students and their educators, recognising that these voices are currently missing from the evidence base.

The Teach Talk: Reasonable adjustments for speech and language therapy placements may require different considerations than those for university-based learning. In 2021, at the request of a group of students who had experience of requesting reasonable adjustments for their placements, we began to consider how these processes were working, where responsibilities lay and what changes could be made to improve the experience for all. What resulted was a Reasonable Adjustments for Placement Plan (RAPP), offering students the formal document they felt was lacking whilst still giving them the freedom to decide exactly what they wanted to share with their practice educators. Over time, the RAPP process has evolved in response to student and educator experiences and will continue to need to do so in future to ensure we are designing placement learning opportunities with success for all students in mind.

Inclusive Teaching by Design: Collaborating Across Disciplines to Enhance Student Experience

Dr Jonathan Harvey

Time: 13.30-14.00

About Jonathan: Dr Jonathan Harvey is a Senior Lecturer in the school of Education and programme leader for the BA (Hons) Special Educational Needs and Disability Studies. He also contributes to the teaching of many other programmes across the University in a number of schools.

The Teach Talk: In this session, I will be exploring how an inclusive approach to teaching can be beneficial at university. I will focus upon an innovative module design, where I have been collaborating with staff from other schools in order to utilise the diverse areas of expertise across the staff base. As this initiative is fairly new, I am keen to gain the perspectives of colleagues about how we could continue to improve this approach to foster an inclusive approach to module design, which improves the student experience. Furthermore, in sharing the details of our design, it is very much our hope that similar initiatives will be instigated throughout the University.