Hello There!

I am Inna Yaneva-Toraman – anthropologist and interdisciplinary researcher specialising in public engagement, data management, and problem solving. I am currently a Lecturer in Anthropology and Climate Change at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology in SOAS University of London. I am also a Research Associate in the UKRI-AHRC project Recipes for Resilience (Caribbean Food 4 Climate Action).

This is my teaching blog, where I reflect on my teaching experience and offer some reflections on student engagement and effective pedagogy. It began as a way to collect evidence of my teaching in order to become a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

I have been teaching in the UK since 2016 on a variety of undergraduate and master’s courses in Social Anthropology, Sustainable Development, and Human Geography. In SOAS, I am the course convenor of a couple of undergraduate core modules and of the elective UG and PGT module on Anthropology and Climate Change. In all my teaching, my primary goal has always been to make lectures and tutorials fun and more interactive, whilst encouraging students to be reflexive, to question dominant categories and assumptions, and to recognise the inequalities and injustices on which our world is built.