Seminars 2025/26

The seminars are open to anyone from the university, students are encouraged to attend. This page will be updated as more speakers are confirmed.

Next Seminar: May 22nd

Dr. Richard Bale (University of Law)

Lost in translation? Making feedback more inclusive through intercultural feedback literacy

Students and educators often come together in higher education from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. This diversity makes for an exciting place of work and study. But how can we be sure that important components of educational practice, such as feedback, are understood in a similar way by all parties? In this session, we will explore the concept of intercultural feedback literacy, which we define as “appreciating and understanding the role that different levels of culture play in feedback processes, and taking action to participate effectively and appropriately in intercultural feedback interactions” (Pazio Rossiter & Bale 2023: 369). We will draw on complex – and contested – concepts, such as culture and intercultural competence, to consider how feedback literacy might be enhanced – both for students and for educators – by viewing feedback as a culturally (and linguistically) situated practice. You will be invited to reflect on your own assumptions about feedback and to consider how – or to what extent – your own linguistic and/or cultural experiences influence how you conceptualise, design, and act on feedback.

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