2 About the Discovery Delivery Group
About this work
The Discovery Delivery Group, in collaboration with the following stakeholders, created this handbook and its associated resources in 2024:
colleagues from Digital Education Service at the University of Leeds,
our partners – the University of Pretoria,
the local community of Mamelodi,
the LS14 Trust and the local community of Seacroft.
The Discovery Delivery Group developed prototype courses in three distinct formats for Discovery as part of Curriculum Broadening (within the Curriculum Redefined initiative); the Jam is one of them.
We envisage that in the future, the Jam format will facilitate the design of low-stakes learning opportunities for students, enabling them to consider bringing these into their own curriculum via the new Discovery modules. The Jam format may also be considered more widely as a design feature of the curriculum within existing modules, or for designing future events.
We welcome feedback on this first version of the handbook, enabling us to make enhancements. This handbook is made available as a Word document, enabling you to add to it in a dynamic way. You are welcome to adapt the design to make it more accessible for you.
The Discovery Delivery Working Group involved in the blueprint design for jam
Members of the Discovery Delivery group contributed to the Blueprint design for the jam.
Co-organisers and co-hosts
Vasiliki Kioupi Academic Lead (School of Earth and Environment/SEE, University of Leeds/UoL), Tafadzwa Mushonga Academic Lead (Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria/UP),Prof Chrissi Nerantzi (School of Education, Institutional Lead for Discovery, UoL), Cathy Malone (Organisational Development & Professional Learning, UoL), Naomi Roxby Wardle (LS14 trust, Leeds, UK), Dr Ephraim Cebisa Mabena (Mothong African Heritage, Mamelodi, Pretoria, South Africa), Charlotte Webb (Student – SEE, UoL), Faith Castle (Student – Lifelong Learning Centre, SEE), Rosario Michel-Villarreal (SEE-UoL), Simon Vallance (Digital Education Service/DES, UoL), J Simon Rofe (School of Politics and International Studies/POLIS, UoL), Damian Mcdonald (DES, UoL), Megan Parsons (DES, UoL), Nathan Loynes (Lifelong Learning Centre, UoL), Radhika Borde (School of Geography, UoL), Agnetta Nyabundi (Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria), Ronald Bafana (Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria), Rishabh Bezbaruah (former student School of Maths, UoL), Annalisa Mack (former student School of Biology, UoL), Fridah Okomo (POLIS, UoL), Charles Pullman (former student School of Geography, UoL), Charlotte Nussey (SEE, UoL), Jonas Cromwell (School of Food Science and Nutrition, UoL), Aysha Baig (Student Education Service, UoL), Katie Nicholls (DES, UoL), Oliver Sacker (DES,, UoL) and Kirstine McDermid (Library, UoL).
Student Facilitators
Alejandro Bueno Espindola (student, Mechatronics and Robotics, UoL)
Charlotte Webb (student, Geology BSc, UoL)
Faith Castle (student BA Professional Studies, UoL)
Fridah Okomo (student, MA Global Development, UoL)
Neha Jagani (student, Environmental Management, UoL)
Diane Teo (student, MSC Climate futures, UoL)
Edson Chiwenga (student, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, UP)
Samuel Igba (student, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, UP)
Samuel Okunade (student, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, UP)
Tamuka Chekero (student, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, UP)
