Sabrina Miller | PG Cert Academic Practice

Unit 2: Inclusive Practices – Intervention Reflective Report Introduction Throughout this unit, I have found myself returning to questions that sit just before the classroom itself: not only who participates once they arrive, but who feels able to imagine themselves there in the first place. Who is already excluded through the ways a course is…

Unit 2: Inclusive Practices – Blog Post 3: Race Teaching on MA Design for Social Innovation and Sustainable Futures has made me increasingly aware that diversity within a cohort does not automatically lead to diversity of encounter. Students bring a wide range of experiences into the room, yet the opportunities to encounter genuinely different perspectives…

Unit 2: Inclusive Practices – Intervention Proposal Throughout this unit so far, I have found myself returning to a set of questions that sit slightly before the classroom itself. Not only who participates once students arrive, but how institutions shape the conditions for arrival in the first place. Who feels able to imagine themselves here?…

Unit 2: Inclusive Practices – Blog Post 2: Faith, Religion and Belief Throughout this unit, I have found myself returning to questions about the assumptions that quietly shape educational environments. Much of my own thinking has centred around access, participation and belonging, but this workshop encouraged me to consider how faith, religion and belief intersect…

Unit 2: Inclusive Practices – Blog Post 1: Disability The most inclusive educational spaces I have experienced were not necessarily the spaces with the most resources or the clearest structures, but the spaces where complexity and difference were anticipated rather than treated as exceptions. These were spaces where silence was not mistaken for disengagement and…

Unit 1: Theories, Policies and Practices Reflection Case Study 1: Use evidence-informed approaches to know and respond to your students’ diverse needs Somatic Activation and Embodied Research Workshop As an Associate Lecturer within the programme, last October I devised and facilitated the workshop ‘Somatic Activation and Embodied Research’ for the new 2025/26 cohort on the…

Unit 1: Theories, Policies and Practices Reviewee: Sabrina Miller Reviewer: John O’Reilly

Unit 1: Theories, Policies and Practices Reviewee: Tim Harris Reviewer: Sabrina Miller 

Unit 1: Theories, Policies and Practices Reviewee: Sabrina Miller Reviewer: Tim Harris

Unit 1: Theories, Policies and Practices Reflection Over the past year of teaching on the MA programme, I have been reflecting more deeply on how embodied and sensory forms of knowledge can sit alongside theoretical learning within (and beyond) the classroom. My own artistic practice has long explored the relationship between the body, narrative and…

Unit 1: Theories, Policies and Practices Reflection During Workshop 3 of the Theories, Policies and Practices Unit, a conversation unfolded that has stayed with me. We were discussing assessment — specifically the tension between technical skill and critical/ theoretical development. What struck me most was the divergence in perspective between technicians and those of us…