#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
To set you up for life [in debt] Going to university is still a big decision, and it’s a choice which more and more of you are making. We want that decision to pay off, to set you up for…
I’ve been at De Montfort University since 2002 leading on our agenda for education and technology or e-learning or technology-enhanced learning or enhancing learning through technology. In that time I’ve also been pursuing pedagogic research through: first, a raft of…
Working with 20 co-authors, Joss Winn and I have just submitted the manuscript for Mass Intellectuality and Democratic Leadership in Higher Education. The edited collection forms part of Bloomsbury Academic’s series on Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education. Assuming that…
On vulnerability The HE systems of developing countries become more vulnerable to dominance from abroad, while the hybrid nature of the HE systems in most developed countries means that the protection offered by the GATS exemption of ‘services supplied in…
With Julia Reeve, I have just returned from leading session for 10 PGR students from across all four of DMU’s faculties on social media for researchers. Our notes are given below. Here are the slides. The session focused on linking…
Via a listserv email, and specifically in my role as a National Teaching Fellow, I was asked earlier today to consider applying to be a member of a Teaching Excellence Framework panel. As an act of solidarity with precariously employed…
Stay in the shadows/Cheer at the gallows/This is a round up/This is a low flying panic attack Radiohead. 2016. Burn the Witch. ONE: showing-up as the limit of our educational hopes Years ago I wrote the following about our relationship…
Since I posted on the HE White Paper and academic practice, I have been thinking about obstacles or resistances that could be placed in the way. In the post, I contended the following. Revealing the ways in which the White…
I As I read the White Paper and the technical consultation on the TEF, I realise that I have spent so much time protesting the UK Government’s assault upon the collective, academic labour of the staff and students who work…
With Kate Bowles, I have an article coming out in volume 28 of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, entitled: Re-engineering higher education: the subsumption of academic labour and the exploitation of anxiety The article looks at the psychological impacts on academics…