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A student-staff partnership project, led by Professor Amanda Millmore, Sharon Sinclair-Graham and Dr Rachel Horton, ran during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. It was a collaboration between students with disabilities and long-term conditions, academics in the School of Law and a Disability Advisor from the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø's Disability Advisory Service.

Student partners ran a cohort-wide questionnaire and facilitated focus groups with disabled students. The goal was to discover what worked well during the 2020/21 academic year as we grappled more with blended learning and to find out where things could be improved.

The work provided a blueprint for those hoping to use blended learning to deliver accessible education for all and it led to real improvements in how we worked. For example, we created a weekly template for our virtual learning environment Blackboard, which is now being used across the University.

As a way of helping new students to transition to university, our student-staff partnership (led by Professor Amanda Millmore and comprised of eight first-generation law students and two academics) co-created a Hidden Curriculum Glossary.

The glossary is shared at the start of the academic year with students in the School of Law and has been used as the basis of a guide for first-generation students at the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø. It has also been adopted and adapted by universities across the sector, both in Law and other disciplines.

We are now in the process of co-creating a similar glossary to support our students with legal careers, working with our Colleagues in the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Careers' Centre.

The is a ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø’s School of Law initiative designed to address the undergraduate Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) awarding gap.

Led by Shweta Band (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion co-lead), Phase 1 of this staff-student partnership project was implemented in 2020/21. The goal is to draw on the lived experiences and feedback of BAME students and staff to create a pilot, evidence-based response for addressing the ethnicity awarding gap at the School of Law.

represents the second phase of the BAME DI-lawgues ethnicity awarding gap project at the School of Law. Led by Shweta Band and Dr Nowrin Tamanna  (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion leads), this project is a part of the University Access and Participation Plan and is based on mutual, conversation-based, equal partnerships between Law School staff and our BAME students. The aim is to build a rich qualitative dataset on reducing the ethnicity awarding gap and creating a stronger sense of belonging by nurturing a safe, inclusive space for our BAME students.