Disagreeing Well News

Hetvi Rutvikbhai Bhatt, postgraduate clinical neuroscience student, shares her reflections of attending the UCL Disagreeing Well event: Reporting Conflict.

A message from Dr Michael Spence, UCL's President & Provost.

President & Provost Dr Michael Spence writes in The Times that universities are built on the principle of freedom of speech, and the proposed changes to the Freedom of Speech (Higher Education) Act can help develop the crucial art of disagreeing well.

UCL President & Provost, Dr Michael Spence, addressed the challenge of disagreeing well on university campuses and highlighted the proactive work UCL is doing in this space during a keynote speech he delivered to a prestigious higher education conference.

VPEE Student Journalist and UCL alum, Antara Basu, shares her reflections of attending the UCL Disagreeing Well event: Disagreeing Well Across Generations

VPEE Student Journalist Defne Kutay shares highlights and reflections on the panel discussion, part of UCL’s Disagreeing Well Campaign.

VPEE Student Journalist, Antara Basu, reflects on the second panel of UCL's Disagreeing Well event series.

Last November, Students’ Union UCL took 13 students to Northern Ireland, as part of the training for their new roles as Impartial Chairs. VPEE Student Journalist Sarah Jilani was one of them and reflects on her experience.

UCL's Halle McCarthy attended Students' Union UCL's Impartial Chairs experiential learning trip to NI, alongside the cohort of student Impartial Chairs, to understand how the programme can inform and feed into our work on Disagreeing Well.

VPEE Student Journalist, Giovanna Cantarin, shares her reflections of attending the first UCL Disagreeing Well event: Disagreeing Well in Higher Education.

UCL President & Provost, Dr Michael Spence, writes in Times Higher Education about the need to disagree well, and how everyone needs to learn to approach any discussions with epistemic humility and a willingness to listen carefully.

Student Journalist Sophia Crack reports on UCL's first event in the 'Disagreeing Well' series at the iconic Bloomsbury Theatre. The article delves deep into the thought-provoking discussions among panellists and gains valuable insights into the art of respectful disagreement.

Undergraduates must learn the art of polite discourse as part of their degree, says UCL President & Provost Dr Michael Spence.