Advance HE Teaching & Learning Conference 2018: How diverse is your reading list? Addressing issues of representation in the sciences and social sciences

This session invites you to reflect on the value and meaning of a diverse and inclusive curriculum. We report on student-staff projects that interrogated the composition of reading lists in two different modules: an undergraduate science module and a postgraduate social research methods course. These projects examined the gender ethnicity and geographical origins of authors on reading lists. This presentation will firstly outline the methods and findings of these projects. Secondly the presentation aims to provoke debate about the value of interrogating the diversity of our curriculum and consider the challenges to such an endeavour.