The below sessions are now available to request.
- English Literature: Finding your Voice
This session introduces students to generative writing techniques, peer workshopping, and the idea that creativity thrives on collaboration. The session is intended to offer a bridge between Post-16 and University style study, highlighting the step in learning that may occur and showcase how current learning will help to move students’ knowledge of writing forward at a higher level.
- Neuroscience: Neuroscience of sensory experience
As part of an undergraduate neuroscience degree, you learn about how the brain processes and integrates sensory information. These are abilities we use everyday without much thought, but the neural processing involved is quite complex and can provide insights into how our brains work to process different forms of information. My sessions will draw on a number of materials highlight how our brains are well suited to these functions, but also some of the challenges they face.
- Economics: How does Economics impact voting?
How do economic policies and conditions shape the way people vote? In this interactive lesson, students will explore the connection between economics and voting decisions through engaging activities, including a hands-on budgeting exercise and a campaign simulation. By debating real-world policies and making voting choices, they will uncover how financial interests, government spending, and economic priorities influence elections. This session encourages critical thinking about the role of economics in democracy and personal decision-making at the ballot box.
- Law: The Law and The Lawyer - Their Roles in Society
The students will gain basic understanding of what Law is and its role in society. They will have a glimpse into what they can expect at university, studying Law. They will also understand some of the different roles they could play as lawyers in society, and the values they could bring. They will realise how accessible and rewarding it actually is to study Law at university.
- Law/Politics: Education for All? Asylum Seekers in the UK
Want to know how asylum seekers access education in the UK? Join this session to learn about their rights, challenges, and how you can make a difference. We will undertake practical activities and discussions on existing ways to support those seeking safety and education and the applicable laws. My proposed subject has a nexus with a module called Immigration and Asylum Law (M3083) that is taught at the School of Law for undergraduate students.
- Engineering: How your phone talks
Students explore how everyday technologies such as phones, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth communicate using wireless signals. Through simple explanation and demonstrations, they learn how information is encoded, transmitted, and decoded. Includes a hands-on activity where students “send” and “receive” messages using real signal-processing ideas. This work connects to Physics, Engineering and wireless communication.
- Music: STEAL IT. FLIP IT. PERFORM IT.
In this fun, interactive 60-minute music session, you will listen, steal ideas, flip them and perform them. You will be split into teams and compete in a Musical Scavenger hunt with challenges like finding a rhythmic feature, spotting a texture, and identifying a hook. This will be followed by Style Roulette, where you will spin for a style card (e.g. Minimalism, Jazz, EDM). Then a 15-Minute Build in which you create 30 – 45 seconds of music in the style of the style card and two of the features from the original track. The session concludes with a Performance Face–Off, where each team performs or plays back their piece of music.
- Business: From Sneakers to Smartphones: How Research Shapes the Products You Love
Why is Santa red? Why do your jeans have a tiny extra pocket? Why Messi for Adidas and Ronaldo for Nike? Why do Rolls Royce cars appear beside private jets? From soft drinks to supercars, discover how research shapes the products you love — and step inside the decision making world of modern business.
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English Literature: Finding your Voice Neuroscience: Neuroscience of sensory experience Economics: How does Economics impact voting? Law: The Law and The Lawyer - Their Roles in Society Law/Politics: Education for All? Asylum Seekers in the UK Engineering: How your phone talks Music: STEAL IT. FLIP IT. PERFORM IT. Business: From Sneakers to Smartphones: How Research Shapes the Products You Love
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