#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
Yesterday, I spoke at a DMU Education Research seminar. The slides and the paper upon which I based my talk are available here. I made a subsequent recording of my presentation, which can be accessed here. Please note that this…
My slides for tomorrow’s Education Research seminar at DMU are available below from my Slideshare. Drawing upon my recently published article in Postdigital Science and Education, on The Hopeless University: Intellectual Work at the End of the End of History,…
I direct the evaluation for the Decolonising DMU Project. With Kaushika Patel and Chris Hall (no relation), I am presenting on the project at the Advance HE Learning and Teaching Conference next week. If you have registered for the conference…
I am tired. In my heart and in my bones. I have been trying to sit with George Floyd, and to understand how to be in this world. It has felt beyond important to contact my black peers, colleagues and…
NB. this is not a blog-post. It is an essay. It is too long, so probably best not reading it. Do something else, less boring instead. There is a PDF version here. ONE. The political economy of transition and separation…
¡Que se vayan todos! They all must go. Enough is enough. These people who claim to lead. These people have no moral authority. These people who are making decisions that affect our lives and the lives of those who are…
As we prepare for next week’s DMU UCU teach-outs, I was reminded of the humanity that underpinned the work of The Third University. I was reminded of its customer charter, which asked: What commitments do you make to nurture yourself?…
I’m on strike. We are four days into a 14 day action. More details of the #fourfights behind the #ucustrikesback action are available here. More details of what is happening at DMU is available here. On Monday I podcasted about…
Next Tuesday, 24 September, I’m chairing a discussion at the Labour Party Conference Fringe. The session is a joint UCU and Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS) event that emerges from some work that I undertook with Sol Gamsu…
In other, exciting news, I have agreed with Mayfly books, based in Leicester, to produce a new monograph on academic life. Mayfly are extending their work on critical university studies, and have also published Ansgar Allen’s The Cynical Educator and…