Dr Lucy Panesar

I am a Lecturer in Higher Education in the Curriculum and Educational Development Team. In this role, I contribute to teaching, personal tutoring and assessing on the Associate Fellowship Scheme and Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education. I lead on the Diversity Mark Practitioner route and retreats in collaboration with Student Success, and I co-lead the Student Success Snakes and Ladders intervention and Decolonial Dialogues group with Dr Yetunde Kolajo. I also mentor and review colleagues for Advance HE Fellowship and Senior Fellowship on Kent's Route to Recognition for Experienced Staff.

As a Senior Fellow, I am experienced in supporting colleagues to enhance their teaching and curriculum design practices and to gain recognition for this. My area of expertise is in the development of accessible and inclusive curricula and teaching, that ensures equitable learning experiences and outcomes for all students and supports students to develop more equitable and inclusive cultures and practices within their fields.

Prior to joining Kent, I led various curriculum decolonisation projects at University of the Arts London. This included a knowledge exchange project with Wikimedia UK supporting students and staff to review and edit Wikipedia articles through a decolonial lens. These projects formed the basis of the PhD I completed in 2025, entitled “The value of counter-storytelling in decolonising the curriculum”. This was a PhD by Portfolio, for which I retrospectively framed the projects as practice research to illustrate what counter-storytelling looked like and how it operated in the context of a metropolitan art school. 

Module convenor for:

• UELT8330 The Inclusive University