In this week’s blog post, Thilal Halimah, PhD student at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, writes about the concept of resilience in refugee education.
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Rethinking the role of social and emotional learning during the pandemic
In this week’s blog post, Deena Newaz, MPhil alumna of the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, reflects deeply on learning during the Covid pandemic.
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A Letter from Your New Editorial Team
As we usher in Michaelmas 2020, we are thrilled to be taking over the reigns of the FERSA blog and to welcome a new, exciting group of academics into our community. We look forward to providing this platform for those at the Faculty of Education to voice opinions and share experiences, both academic and personal. …
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A Letter from Your Outgoing Editorial Team
As this term ends, we would like to take a moment to reflect on two years as the editorial team for the FERSA Blog. We are handing over the blog into the very capable hands of Yan-Yi Lee, Kelsey Graber, Krishna Kulkarni, and Emily Goodacre.
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Addressing the Systemic Racism and Racist Practices within the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge: An Open Letter
The FERSA Committee is an elected student-run group that represents the graduate student community at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. This open letter, collaboratively written by the members of the FERSA Committee, responds to recent and distressing public testimony made by a number of graduate students at the Faculty of Education regarding the harm they have endured during their pursuit of a higher degree at the Faculty of Education. This letter stands as FERSA’s statement in support of the Black graduate students at the Faculty, as well as the graduate students of colour and Indigenous graduate students at the Faculty; as a public recognition of the Faculty’s failures to address systemic racism and white supremacy within its bounds; and as an initial call to action, with the recognition that the Faculty’s permanent staff are the ones who must ultimately choose a course of action to take.
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Top Tips for Your PhD Viva
Three students from the Faculty who recently passed the PhD viva share some of their top tips that can help you to successfully pass it too.
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Online Teaching and Learning: It’s (still) a Question of Styles and Cycles
Professor Karen Coats explores McCarthy’s 4mat learning cycle and discusses its potential implications for online teaching.
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Organising a Public Engagement Event – ‘Lessons Learned’
Lenka Janik Blaskova and Mélanie Gréaux share tips on organising public engagement events.
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Between Baking and the PhD
Yan-Yi Lee talks about her experience as an amateur cake artist and how it feeds into her development as a doctoral student.
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Building a Post-PhD Career: Some Practical Early Career-Building Steps
Dr. Sara Clarke-Habibi shares her advice on building a post-PhD career. She addresses aspects such as visibility, networking, taking on small engagements, and getting good recommendations. She also shows how some of the disappointments she experienced during the process turned out to be helpful after all.
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