“As a student-centred university, your well-being is really important so we are setting up our teaching in a way that will nourish you academically, nurture you individually and will protect you from COVID-19. 

To that effect, we are planning to deliver our teaching in a variety of formats. You will be able to access to recorded lectures, engage in live webinars and workshops, asynchronous active work, and skype us individually through tutorials or one-to-ones. We’re also going to create lots of ‘watercooler’ moments to allow us to get to know you and for you to get to know us. I hope you can join us in September!”

“With our virtual learning, we aim to have a lot of clarity with any tasks set, with detailed instructions, so that students in any part of the world in different time zones can access them. At the same time, the tasks are challenging, asking students to find a unique solution which could involve a critical approach such as doing research and presenting the results in different formats such as written and spoken. Our emphasis is on the student doing rather than receiving.”

“Our BA Psychology students who were doing internships this year have all done them online this year and they’ve worked really well. The internship roles have varied from helping charities that support vulnerable people to domestic violence victims and children who have special needs and need extra support with home schooling.”