Welcome to Awarding Gaps at the University of Portsmouth.
Looking for advice and guidance on what you can do to address the awarding gaps? This page has events, workshops, and resources to help you understand key issues related to the awarding gaps, and what you can do in your practice to achieve more equitable outcomes for students at UoP.
Understanding the Ethnicity Awarding Gap at UoP
These short videos give an overview of the ethnicity-based awarding gap at UoP and how staff can find relevant data for their course through the Student Experience and Course Outcomes (SECO) dashboard. For more information, please email cadi@port.ac.uk.
What's New?
The latest news in Awarding Gaps
CPD Workshops:
Pitch a Theorist Presentations
Discover more about the following theorists and how their work has profoundly shaped how universities understand inequities in student achievement, curriculum design, belonging and institutional power. Together, they provide much of the intellectual foundation for current approaches to closing awarding gaps in higher education.
- Gregory Cajete - Professor of Native American Studies and Language, Literacy and Sociocultural Studies, University of New Mexico.
- bell hooks - American philosopher, educator, author and social critic who was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College.
- Gloria Ladson-Billings - American pedagogical theorist and teacher educator.
- Mori Akira - Kyoto School philosopher of education in post-war Japan.
- Paulo Freire - Brazilian educator and philosopher.
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o - Kenyan writer, theorist and educator.
UoP Guidance
You can read more about the current guides and regulations for Awarding Gaps at the University of Portsmouth below:
