Inclusive Employability Development through the Curriculum: An Educator's Toolkit

In this webinar, participants will be introduced to the toolkit, exploring how the different tools can support their ambitions to integrate employability inclusively through teaching and learning.

The toolkit was developed by University of London (The Careers Group and the Centre for Online and Distance Education), City St George’s, University of London, and King’s College London through a QAA-funded collaborative enhancement project. Find out more about Collaborative Enhancement Projects on the QAA website.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 13:00 – 14:00 (GMT)

Panel members:

• Aranee Manoharan PhD, SFHEA, FRSA (Advance HE Senior Fellow, Director of AM Coaching and Consulting and Board Director for AGCAS)

  Aranee is an HE professional with experience across the areas of teaching, student experience, careers and educational development, as well as diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Specialising in inclusive approaches to curriculum design, she is an Advance HE Senior Fellow, with significant experience working with academic and professional services teams to facilitate real-world learning through the use of high-impact pedagogies and assessments, delivered in collaboration with community and industry partners.

  A committed advocate for equity and inclusion, Aranee serves on a number of advisory groups, including the Institute for Student Employers (ISE) EDI Working Group; Royal Society of Biology HUBS Awarding Gap Network; Advance HE’s Race Equality Charter Governance Committee; and as a Board Director for AGCAS, where she leads the social mobility, widening participation, and regional inequality portfolio. Aranee is also the Director of AM Coaching & Consulting, a consultancy specialising in establishing inclusive working, learning, and research cultures.
   

• Gemma Kenyon (Director of City St George’s, University of London- Careers and Employability department)
  
  Gemma has been working in Higher Education careers services since 2009 and has been leading careers services since 2013. As Director of the City St George’s, University of London Careers and Employability department, Gemma leads a team of around 40 staff in functions such as careers guidance, employer engagement, placements, on-site recruitment agency, volunteering and professional mentoring. The City St George’s Careers and Employability service leads the award winning (Best University and Employer Engagement Strategy 2024, Institute of Student Employers) Career Activation Programme which means that there are employability education and professional experience modules as core and credit bearing in all undergraduate courses. Gemma is the Head of Profession at City St George’s for Employability, leading all institutional employability projects including the current implementation of Graduate Attributes. Gemma became a member of the AGCAS board and the AGCAS Director for Integrating Employability in March 2023. She is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE.
   
• Linda Amrane-Cooper (Director of Academic Practice in Distance Education, UoL and Director of the Centre for Online and Distance Education (CODE), UoL)
  
  Linda is Director of Academic Practice in Online and Distance Education at UoL and is responsible the work of the Centre for Online and Distance Education (CODE). Linda leads a team of 44 Fellows who are thought and practice leaders in online and distance education. Linda has extensive experience of working in varied international contexts and has a passion for supporting learners and teacher development. Building on over 28 years’ experience of leading and supporting high quality learning and teaching, course design and senior leadership, Linda has led the Centre for Online and Distance Education since 2017. Linda designed and launched the University’s Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, with a team of CODE Fellows in 2018, which she led until 2024.

All welcome-this event is free to attend, but advance registration is required.