Decolonising at Lincoln

Upholding Our One Community Values

As a university, we are committed to upholding and recognising the five principles of our One Community Values: equality, understanding, listening, kindness, acceptance. The institution-wide project of decolonisation at Lincoln flows from and embeds this commitment.

We hope that these pages help you to understand not only the basics of what decolonialisation means, but also helps you to find resources to ensure that we can start breaking down some of the myths around decolonising to enrich and add to our current systems of knowledge here at Lincoln.

Why Decolonise?

What are the benefits? What do we gain?

Decolonising our university means working together to reimagine our scholarship, interpersonal relations, teaching, learning, and professional practices by actively including previously marginalised knowledge and ways of knowing.

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Explore the sections below to find out more about how we are approaching decolonisation across the University, from our research practice and taught curriculum, through to academic procedures and the University's working culture. You can also find out more about how our staff and students are getting involved, and what our library is doing to support the project.

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Research Practice

At Lincoln, we are calling for the re-imagining of different ways of knowledge inquiry and production. To emphasise consulting, shared responsibility, and making research inquiry representative of different cultures, languages, identities, regions, and histories.

Research Practice

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Curriculum

As a university recognise that we need to rethink, reframe, and reconstruct the current curriculum to make it better, and more inclusive. We need to expand our notions of knowledge, so it does not always elevate one voice, one experience, and one way of being in the world.

Our Curriculum

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Academic Procedures and Infrastructural Process

The Lincoln Academy of Learning and Teaching (LALT) is championing the work of decolonisation through project work and staff development. From Higher Education Academy Recognition (HEA) and programme delivery, through to student engagement opportunities, decolonisation is an integral part of reimagining our support for teaching and learning.

Procedures and Process

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People, Performance, and Culture (HR Practices and Procedures)

Decolonising at Lincoln aims to be an inclusive process, taking everyone along on a transformative journey. That means reviewing our processes and procedures outside of curriculum and pedagogy to include colleagues in professional services.

HR Practice

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The Library

Decolonisation has become an important global debate in libraries and archives, and is stimulating librarians, archivists, and library users to question existing policy and practice, and see their collections in a new light.

Library Resources

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External Community

The University supports the Reimagining Lincolnshire project which seeks to uncover hidden and neglected stories, to showcase those whose contributions to the county of Lincolnshire, country, and internationally have largely been forgotten.

External Community

Contact Us

To find out more about the Decolonisation at Lincoln project and the work we are undertaking, please contact us at decolonisation@lincoln.ac.uk.