Mrs Davina Whitnall's Outputs (8)

Flipping Failure: A case study on building resilience and confidence through 'Failureship Strategies' in theory and practice at the University of Salford. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents the Flipping Failure project, which aims to challenge the negative perception of failure and promote its benefits for building resilience, insight, and action. The project involved students and staff who participated in failure-fo... Read More about Flipping Failure: A case study on building resilience and confidence through 'Failureship Strategies' in theory and practice at the University of Salford..

Session 3: Experience Decolonising across disciplines in postgraduate research and supervision (April 2023) (2023)
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Davina Whitnall

Title: Do we need to deinstitutionalise first? Exploration of the issues and implications of decolonising knowledge for pedagogy

Summary: Decolonising pedagogical practice remains a challenge in Higher Education (HE) despite ins... Read More about Session 3: Experience Decolonising across disciplines in postgraduate research and supervision (April 2023).

The lived experience: driving transformational change within higher education during and beyond the pandemic (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Power, E., Whitnall, D., West, M., & Grogan, S. (2022, September). The lived experience: driving transformational change within higher education during and beyond the pandemic. Presented at IFNTF “Symposathon” REshaping Teaching Excellence: Pandemic and the New Now, Virtual

The University of Salford is on a journey of adaptive change, redefining its strategy for the next 5 years. In recent history the HE sector has experienced seismic shifts in policy, expectation, and operation as well as the world-wide adaption to lif... Read More about The lived experience: driving transformational change within higher education during and beyond the pandemic.

FAIL – Focussed Action Innovative Leadership : Using 'leadership failure lens' to support leadership development approaches (2022)
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FAIL – Focussed Action Innovative Leadership : Using 'leadership failure lens' to support leadership development approaches


Failure is part of being human, it’s often a considered a negative but looking at it differently can open unexpected rout... Read More about FAIL – Focussed Action Innovative Leadership : Using 'leadership failure lens' to support leadership development approaches.

Failure Freedom: A guide to supporting researchers through developing a failure freedom culture (2019)
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Hurley, U., & Whitnall, D. (2019). Failure Freedom: A guide to supporting researchers through developing a failure freedom culture. University of Salford. https://doi.org/10.17866/rd.salford.10510157

Failure Freedom: A guide to supporting researchers through developing a failure freedom culture (2019)
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As we work towards better mental health across the researcher community, failure freedom – the ability to feel comfortable with failure – is a critical element to supporting and enabling resilience and positive mental wellness.
Fear of failure is em... Read More about Failure Freedom: A guide to supporting researchers through developing a failure freedom culture.

Fail Again, Fail Better: Celebrating Failure as a Wellbeing Intervention for Researchers (2019)
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Blog post relating to 1st International Conference on the Mental Health & Wellbeing of Postgraduate Researchers
16th - 17th May 2019
Jury's Inn Waterfront, Brighton

An integrated approach to inclusive assessment
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The values of an inclusive approach to assessment design enhance learning and can lead to improved outcomes, enriching lives. At Salford, we support an intentionally inclusive approach to learning and teaching through principle-based frameworks. Reco... Read More about An integrated approach to inclusive assessment.