Lunch and Learn - Intersectionality in Engineering: A personal reflection

EDI Team Queen Mary

Folashade will conduct a personal reflection on her current journey into academic leadership and how intersectionality has informed it.

QMUL Lunch and Learn Series for Black History MonthDr Folashade Akinmolayan Taiwo is a Senior Lecturer in Engineering Education and Director of Student Experience in the School of Engineering and Materials Science. Within the Faculty of Science and Engineering, she is a deputy director of the Centre for Academic Inclusion in Science and Engineering. In addition to being Vice Chair of the Newer Researchers Network for the UK &amp; Ireland Engineering Education Research Network (EERN).

Prior to joining QMUL, she was a Teaching Fellow at UCL where is also completed her MEng and PhD in Chemical Engineering. Dr Taiwo’s focus is on scholarship of engineering education, in particular researching into group work in engineering and experiential learning including inclusivity aspects of group formation and group dynamics in team-based learning and group teaching. She has great experience of working with students, as documented by numerous student led awards and nominations, both in her Student Experience lead role and in her scholarship approaches, which have developed strategies that led to significant improvement of Student Experience indicators in SEMS. 

In this talk, Folashade will conduct a personal reflection on her current journey into academic leadership. She will review how her intersectionality has informed her scholarship (research in engineering education), experience, academic progression and future goals.

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