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2. What we did
In January 2021 we created an ambitious research opportunity including staff
and students which would encompass the whole college community.
Promoted to BA students, the project aimed to create a Women's History Book,
to engage the whole College in a positive gender diversity initiative.
A Teams form was created and circulated by email and with the help of the
college's Student Association, which allowed anyone to nominate a notable
woman from their area of interest or to request that one or more be found for
inclusion in the digital book resource. The student/staff research group engaged
remotely with each other utilising Padlet online platform and with, e.g the
Glasgow Women's Library resources and wider global sites highlighting the
achievements of women.
From the forms, reference sheets were created and with the assistance of
CoGC library staff, students created both text and image references for all text
and images. The student/staff research team edited text, checked references,
created image treatments and checked the text and images for accuracy and
copyright. We then launched the digital book, college wide, on International
Women's Day on 8th March 2022, creating a lasting resource and starting point
for further EDI discussion.
3. How
We aimed to include the widest reach of the college community in the content
and invited the whole College into the ethos and rationale of the project
encouraging a 'can-do' positive action to an historical problem.
We established a research group across the BA Contemporary Art Practice and
BA Photography students to undertake the research, collation and creation of
nominations and wider research to create a digital book.
A form which provided inclusion for all was an important objective, and where
people did not make a nomination, a college-wide awareness of the project
occurred. Launch of the book was circulated through all staff and student
networks.
4. Results achieved
This project created a digital book (page tiger) available to the whole college
community accessed via our online learning platform and by a QR code from
our library,. This has created a legacy resource of female role models to
encourage ongoing research and to positively address gender diversity within
learning and teaching.