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Date: Friday 6th June 2025
Time: 12.00pm – 1.30pm
Location: Online
Presenters: Dr Alison McFarland and Dr Minjie Gao, King’s Business School (with input from KBS students involved in the project)
This online webinar presents insights from a year-long project to redesign two core research methods modules at King’s Business School.
The session will explore key insights gathered through the involvement of student research assistants and academic experts, who audited the modules and provided recommendations for change. It will also outline the changes implemented—such as diversifying case studies and reading lists, introducing critical engagement with the politics and history of research methods, and creating more interactive formats to amplify student voice—and report how these changes were evaluated using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Alongside practical outcomes, the project raised broader issues, such as: how to navigate conflicting interpretations of inclusion between staff and students, how to respond when diverse resources are lacking in certain disciplines, and how to reconcile the priorities of inclusive education with core disciplinary learning outcomes.
This session will offer honest reflections on these challenges, alongside concrete strategies for educators seeking to embed decolonisation and diversification into their own teaching, both within research methods and management education more broadly.