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Sarah Birrell Ivory

Sarah Birrell Ivory

Independent academic

is a critical thinking advocate and educator. She was previously a senior lecturer in climate change and business strategy at the University of Edinburgh Business School. She is author of Becoming a Critical Thinker: For your University Studies and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2021), Introduction to Management: Functions and Challenges, co-authored with Emma Macdonald (OUP, 2024) and on Substack.

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To AI or not to AI? That is the question

Educators should embrace their role as advocates for higher education and the critical thinking skills it imparts, argues Sarah Birrell Ivory. Here, she shares a classroom exercise that compares the learning benefits of a written source with generative AI

Sarah Birrell Ivory

Independent academic

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Campus webinar: The keys to a successful academic career

Three female academics in Europe, the UK and ߣߣ��Ƶ give their advice on how to land a promotion, networking for introverts, how much you should be publishing – and answering the question: ‘Should I quit?’

Sarah Birrell Ivory, Catherine Léglu, Kylie Message-Jones

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Advice on teaching the basics of critical thinking to students who are new to the concept

How to teach critical thinking to beginners

Sarah Ivory explains how she teaches critical thinking through application rather than theory, tasking students with applying three core elements of the process in their regular classes

Sarah Birrell Ivory

The University of Edinburgh