On 20 March 2026, the University of Glasgow will host a Workshop on Decolonisation in Practice, organised by the Community of Practice for Decolonising the Curriculum.
The event will run from 09:30–16:30 at the University’s Advanced Research Centre (ARC), room 226AB
This workshop will bring together staff and students from across disciplines to share practical approaches to decolonising teaching, learning, and curriculum in higher education. The focus is on how decolonisation happens in practice through funded projects, collaborative course redesign, community-building, and reflective teaching.
The morning sessions explore how decolonisation work is initiated and supported within institutions. The day opens with the development of Strathclyde’s new Community of Practice, shaped through collaboration with existing networks and supported by institutional commitment to sustained engagement. This is followed by discipline-based examples showing how funded student–staff partnerships, curriculum reviews, and national disciplinary initiatives can be used to broaden perspectives in realistic and achievable ways, including a discussion of the Report shared on this website by Matt Mears concerning recommendations on Decolonising Physics Education.
After lunch, the programme turns to resourcing and sustaining change. Through meaningful student–staff partnerships, presentations introduce practical tools for evaluating curriculum inclusivity and international relevance, alongside examples of how evidence generated can be used to support staff development and inform longer-term curriculum planning. A short poster spotlight focuses on inclusive culture-building as essential groundwork for successful and sustainable decolonisation.
The final sessions engage more directly with questions of power, language, and knowledge. An interactive learning game invites participants to reflect critically on positionality and power. A provocation challenges the dominance of English in UK higher education and highlights multilingualism as a key but often overlooked dimension of decolonisation. The workshop closes with a creative storytelling session drawing on Indigenous Studies, modelling alternative ways of sharing knowledge and reflecting on how decolonisation can be approached ethically and reflexively, particularly by those working from outside Indigenous communities.
Please see the full program for more information.
We have deliberately left 10 minutes between each session to either give time to continue conversation while the next presenters sets up or for participants to drop in and out of sessions depending on the availability – we don’t expect everyone to stay for the full day.
Please do ensure that you sign up for the workshop so we know who to expect and can plan accordingly.