Who is the Critical Thinker in Higher Education?

This event aims to discuss what critical thinking actually means for both students and staff. We will consider:

• What is critical thinking?
• How is critical thinking encouraged and enacted?
• Who is considered a critical thinker?

We are very lucky to host Dr Tamsin Hinton-Smith (University of Sussex) and Dr Emily Danvers (University of Sussex). Their contribution will map how critical thinking combines a normative element within the student identity. Identities, it follows, are produced as key sites for criticality to come about.

This event is open to university staff and students alike. The aim of the event is to work towards a common understanding of what critical thinking in higher education means, and how it is mediated by identity broadly, and gender more specifically.