University Students and Unconscious Bias Training: an interview with The University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh recently became one of the first universities Marshall eLearning has worked with to produce an unconscious bias course tailored for the student context. The course, designed to be taken on mobile devices, will help students to be mindful of implicit bias when evaluating staff and services.

The unconscious bias course is available for all of the University of Edinburgh’s 39,669 students to complete and is promoted as part of their course evaluation process. It helps them understand their unconscious biases by asking the tough questions about individual self-awareness of bias, the power of prejudice, and what every student can do to commit to equality, diversity and inclusion.

To get more insight into why The University of Edinburgh decided to roll out the Unconscious Bias training course to their students, we spoke to Jerrard Doran, Digital Marketing Officer from Student Systems and Administration at the University, on his views.

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