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The Activist Physiologist: A Transformative Approach to Sustainable Development and Authentic Assessment

Drs McGahon and Roe from Queen’s University Belfast will be showcasing their innovative assessment that draws links between the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the discipline of physiology. They will describe their experiences of running the assessment over the two years since its inception and their realisation that, not only did it constitute an authentic and richly contextual means of assessing physiology, it also created a cohort of physiology activists. Students became passionate advocates for (amongst other things) victims of wartime trauma, persons dealing with intimate partner violence and prevention of climate collapse. In addition, student testimony details that their experience of the assessment was deeply meaningful, on occasion healing, and often transformational.

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