As a Teaching Within candidate, being inspired and guided by the Shades of Noir resources, my journey through the PgCert has enabled me to critically reflect on my positionality, values and passion for teaching as a woman of colour. In the previous two units I have considered and steered my pedagogy within a social justice lens that centres experiences of marginalised groups and individuals, to which I affiliate.

My intentions within my Action Research Project are to foreground and explore the experiences of students who, through social stigma, institutional racism and ableism, issues of safety for marginalised groups, lack of access to specialist teaching and learning, may feel that disclosing ‘disability’, centring intersectionality, internationality will disadvantage them further in the learning journey within a higher education institution (UAL).