Ruth Davies – Speaker at the 21st EFDN Conference
Ruth Davies, program lead on the Sport Business and Entrepreneurship Degree at Bristol City Robins Foundation, is a confirmed speaker at our 21st EFDN #MoreThanFootball Conference in Warsaw from the 22nd until the 24th of April 2024.
Ruth Davies have been working with the Robins Foundation for almost 5 years, after 13 years working in secondary education. Davies was keen to work with the Foundation and explore how they use football as a vehicle to engage young people with education. An experiental style of learning provided an alternative approach for young people to demostrate learning.
During the conference, Davis will give a look into how building a partnership with a local university can be leveraged to provide young people with an experiential apporach to higher education. She will also present “Practice before theory”: it consists in using a methodology that originated in Finland to provide positive outcomes for those who may not have conisidered higher education and, lastly, Ruth Davies will embed the concept of Learning by Doing.
“It is incredible to see how students can use their skills and knowledge to make a positive impact in their community. By engaging in hands-on projects and ventures, they not only learn valuable entrepreneurial skills but also contribute to important causes that can benefit society as a whole. It is truly rewarding to witness their growth and success in these endeavors. In September 2023 our TEs/ students were challenged with using their entrepreneurial skills to raise money for Robins Talk, a mental health program ran by the Foundation. In addition to fundraising, a group of these students decided to create a promo video to demonstrate the impact of this program.”
Ruth Davies, program lead on the Sport Business and Entrepreneurship Degree
