#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
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…
Conference call: Radical Pedagogies: Macpherson 20 years on Radical Pedagogies: Macpherson 20 years on Thursday 19th September 2019 De Montfort University, Leicester #RadicalDMU19 Call for papers (Please note that the call for papers has been extended to Friday 5th July.)…
With Sol Gamsu, I have co-edited A New Vision for Further and Higher Education, published by the Centre for Labour and Social Studies. Launched at the recent UCU conference, the report is available from the CLASS website. The abstract is…
Radical Pedagogies: Macpherson 20 years on Thursday 19th September 2019 De Montfort University, Leicester #RadicalDMU19 Call for papers In November 2018 the University of Kent hosted the first event organised by Radical Pedagogies: The Humanities Teaching Network in Higher Education.…
Over at the new PostDigital Science and Education journal Joss Winn has a review of my monograph, The Alienated Academic: The Struggle for Autonomy Inside the University. Joss plays around with the review style, in order to highlight some of…
There has been so much discussion of potential job losses across institutions; there has been so much discussion of how negotiations over the USS Pension Scheme will play out; there has been so much discussion of the impacts of the…
On Wednesday, I had the privilege of holding a book launch for The Alienated Academic at DMU. Over on my podcast, there is a recording of the first half of this event, in which I was in conversation with Sarah…
Back in June I spoke at the BERA social theory and education SIG symposium about authoritarian neoliberalism and the alienation of academic labour. My focus was on authoritarian neoliberalism as a heuristic for analysing the idea of the University, and…
I have a new monograph out with Palgrave Macmillan, entitled The Alienated Academic: The Struggle for Autonomy Inside the University The book’s abstract is as follows: Higher education is increasingly unable to engage usefully with global emergencies, as its functions are…
I spoke at the BERA social theory and education SIG symposium yesterday. My slides and initial thoughts are here. These are the thoughts I had when statements and people stopped or challenged me during the day. ONE. Analyses of neoliberalism…