New podcast on the importance of student voice in the Schwarzman Centre
Professor Dan Grimley has been interviewed for the Oxford University Student Union's podcast.
The Head of the Humanities Division spoke to Wantoe Teah Wantoe, the SU’s President for Postgraduates, for the latest episode of Oxford Student Voice.
Their conversation covered a wide range of subjects including:
- Professor Grimley's background
- His research and teaching
- Widening access to universities
- The Schwarzman Centre’s significance for the humanities and Oxford more broadly
- The impact of AI on learning and employment
Professor Grimley spoke about the importance of students feeling part of the Schwarzman Centre, rather than being spectators, and his hope that they will shape its future development.
Professor Grimley said: “The Schwarzman Centre brings lots of different kinds of teaching opportunities, different kinds of seminars, and conversations that are happening in the building all the time. This means that, as a student, you've got the opportunity to go and hear lectures outside your subject field, which could really change the way that you think about your own discipline."
He added: "Over and above that, the Schwarzman Centre has an amazing suite of performance venues. We have a cultural programme that is going to be curating events in those spaces. We really want the cultural programme to be working with our students so that we are co-creating a programme of events with you. That's going to be something we'll have to work on together, so we're still learning how to do this. Although we are 850 years old as a university, the Schwarzman Centre is very much a start-up, so we're going to have to do it from scratch. But that's really exciting. We want to have that conversation, come be part of that, help us shape this new space together so that we really own it as a community.”
Listen to the full podcast here: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/schwarzman-centre-students-humanities-and-future-knowledge-oxford
