#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
With Rosi Smith in Education and James Evans in Strategic Planning at DMU, I am planning to kick-start a Critical University Studies Reading Group at DMU. The first meeting will be 12.30-13.30 on Wednesday 25th March, in Hugh Aston 1.47.…
Over at WonkHE, Sol Gamsu and I have a piece on better policy-making through democratic renewal. This connects to our recently-edited collection for the Centre for Labour and Social Studies on A New Vision for Further and Higher Education. In the…
I have an article accepted for publication in a special issue of Social Epistemology: a Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy that picks up on some work I have been doing previously on authoritarian neoliberalism (see presentations and notes from…
With Mark Pulsford, I have co-edited a forthcoming Special Issue of Power and Education, with contributions that ground neoliberal policies and logics in the everyday routines and practices within Primary school communities. The special issue is titled: Neoliberalism and Primary…
I’m really pleased that a paperback version of Joss Winn and my 2017 edited collection, Mass Intellectuality and Democratic Leadership in Higher Education is now available. This makes this important work on re-imagining HE much more accessible. For more details…
In June 2009, a group of people who loosely knew each other, or were connected through emergent social networks and individuals, gathered for discussion about the intersection of education and digital technology. This collective, known as the ‘52group’, gathered from…
On Wednesday I’m presenting at Bath Spa in an open discussion of my book, The Alienated Academic. The slides are appended below. NOTE: I will only speak for 20 minutes but wanted to present a full slide-deck.
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…
A couple of weeks ago I presented at the Contemporary Philosophy of Technology seminar series, at the University of Birmingham. My talk was on the idea/reality of the Co-operative University and anti-technocracy. The issues that I was interested in raising…
Over at WonkHE I have an opinion piece related to my book on the alienated academic, called Working in HE – an alienating labour of love? This is a companion piece to something I wrote last year for WonkHE on…