Higher Education
Resources for Disagreeing Well in Higher Education.
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What does the classroom as a safe space mean to our UCL community?
What does the classroom as a safe space mean to our UCL community?
Hilary Tang, a third year English student reports on an internal event 'What does the classroom as a safe space mean to our UCL community?', and the themes discussed.
Resources (UCL)
- Blog: Why we taught a class on how to disagree, by Thomas Gift, Associate Professor, UCL Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy (2026)
- UCEA blog: How to disagree… well and safely, by Karen Campbell-White, Jane Yelloly, Prof Sara Mole, and Dr Helen Knowler, UCL (2026)
- Comment: We’ve always had free speech on campus. It’s vital to ‘disagree well’, by Dr Michael Spence, UCL (2025)
- ”The role of the University in Public Debate” by Dr Michael Spence, UCL (Check Chapter 9, page 113) (2022)
- The Gender Wars, Academic Freedom and Education, by Judith Suissa and Alice Sullivan (2021)
- The Relation between Academic Freedom and Free Speech, Simpson, R (2020)
- The Precarious State of Academic Freedom in Higher Education: The Case of India and Pakistan, Anand, Kusha and Niaz, Laraib (2022)
- How can universities promote academic freedom? Insights from the front line of the gender wars, by Judith Suissa and Alice Sullivan (2022)
- The University As Infrastructure of Becoming: Re-Activating Academic Freedom Through Humility in Times of Radical Uncertainty, Nicolas Zehner and Francisco Durán Del Fierro (2024)
- LGBTQ+ representation and language teaching in higher education: an exploration of the Danish Lecturer Scheme, Hansen, Jesper (2024)
- Taking Race Live: Exploring experiences of race through interdisciplinary collaboration in higher education, S Sharma, E Catalano, H Seetzen, H Julia Minors, S Collins-Mayo (2019)
- “What master do you serve?” Struggles in university EDI committees, Joseph Lam (2024)
- EDI at UCL Medical School: Why is it important? Rima Chakrabarti (2022)
