Voices in Learning and Teaching: Participatory Methods for Inclusive Education

Want to improve your teaching? Applying for a Teaching Fellowship?

The Postgraduate Network invites you to our next event: Voices in Learning and Teaching: Participatory Methods for Inclusive Education.

This session explores new approaches to teaching and active learning, relevant for GTAs, early-career researchers, and new academics. Dr Maísa Edwards (KCL) and Dr Leonie Jackson (Northumbria University) will present practical tools and strategies that they use in their own teaching practice.

Dr Maísa Edwards will introduce Be A Revolutionary!, an interactive, strategy-based learning tool designed by Dr Maísa Edwards that engages participants with the ethical, political, and strategic dimensions of authoritarianism and revolution. Drawing on lessons from the Haitian, French, and American Revolutions, learners navigate four fictional autocratic regimes, analysing how power, ideology, and resistance shape historical and contemporary outcomes. Through gameplay, participants confront dilemmas of violence, justice, and compromise, developing critical thinking, moral reasoning, and a deeper historical perspective. The session will explore how gamified active learning can deepen engagement, reflection, and ethical awareness in fields such as Politics, War Studies, and International Relations.

Dr Leonie Jackson will discuss simulations as a form of participatory learning and teaching.

The presentations will be followed by a Q&A.