Tamika Adamson, Student Success Diversity Mark Officer, blogs of her reasons for joining the Student Success (EDI) Team as a Work Study Intern, and her aspiration for the change she hopes her involvement will bring about.<\/p>\n
‘The Diversity Mark project<\/a> is primarily centred around decolonising the curriculum through contextualising western views of the world, and to allow more marginalised perspectives to come towards the forefront.<\/p>\n I initially wanted to get involved with this project because I am a Politics and International Relations (IR) student, and with that there are elements of race and diverse perspectives within my course inherently, yet as a student I felt that more could be done to elevate the voices and opinions of authors from particular countries, or states which often remain in the background (e.g., Rwanda or low-income countries in general which are often left out of the conversation).<\/p>\n In the next year, I\u2019m looking forward to meeting with convenors and collectively trying to improve and diversify their reading lists. As well as that, I expect by taking agency within my own learning and taking account of different perspectives involved in this project, that I finally reach an end where the appropriate measures would be taken to diversify and ultimately improve resources for learning.’<\/p>\n Tamika is studying for a BA in Politics and International Relations<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"