The master’s programmes in Communication Design at The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) maintains a cohort of approximately 45-50 students of typically more than twenty nationalities. With such a culturally diverse cohort of students from a variety of prior learning experiences, promoting student cohesion is an important aspect in the student’s learning experience with studio-based learning playing a key role. I presented my paper on “Cultural Diversity in a Masters Programme in Illustration: A Case Study in Interna- tionalisation” at Confia in 2019 which presented the strategies the team had employed. During the Covid-19 Pandemic of 2020 and 2021 the teaching team at GSA had to adapt these strategies to ensure adherence to government guidelines which restricted and at points prohibited studio-based teaching. We developed an agile teaching model and a hybrid approach with online teaching combined with limited access for students to the studio and work- shops, to continue to deliver the positive strategies developed to promote cultural inclusion and diversity. In this paper I will reflect on the effectiveness of those adaptations and consider lessons learned in the process
