How this Toolkit was developed

This toolkit was developed by Dr Isobel Jenkins, Prof Taz Goddard-Fuller and Dr Victoria Simpson.

Our toolkit is modelled on pre-existing resources, with significant inspiration coming from the University of Liverpool’s Decolonising the Curriculum Toolkit and SOAS University of London’s Decolonising Toolkit.

Many of the questions and suggestions below come from these sources. The reason we have not simply chosen to adopt another toolkit is because we felt that the medical education context was important. We wanted to develop a toolkit with examples that colleagues and students would be able to identify and feel comfortable with, and have therefore endeavoured to identify existing content and examples most relevant to our curriculum development and teaching within the School.

The four areas we have focused on for this toolkit are the result of discussions we had during a series of EDI lunchtime conversations attended by School of Medicine staff. The toolkit has been edited following review by a number of colleagues within the School. A very big thank you to all colleagues who participated in this process.