Poster 26:

Lessons Learned from the Student-Staff Partnership Process of Decolonising a Psychology Course

De Amicis, L., Vincent, M., Wen, S., Thompson, H., and Chang, H.C., University of Glasgow

…The decolonisation of academia has been strongly invoked in UK universities and worldwide, highlighting the harm that current Global West/North based curricula and pedagogy, reflecting an entire system of thinking, mentality, and structure viewed as the only universally acceptable, has on the education/training, practice/social skills and academic experiences of both international and local students. Our SSP- team embraced the definition of decolonisation intended as ‘deliberately seeking authentic representation within the experiences of formerly colonised people in order to disrupt the colonial realities that continue to occur’ …