#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
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…
This is the Q&A session from my book launch. For the opening conversation with Sarah Amsler, check out Episode 4. The Alienated Academic is available from the Palgrave site, or it’s a little cheaper via institutional access to Springer Link.…
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…
So, in this podcast we have the first half of my book launch from last night held at DMU. I was privileged to be in conversation with Sarah Amsler from the University of Nottingham, with some friends and comrades in…
So, mid-week I have an invite-only book launch for The Alienated Academic here at DMU. I needed to test the AV kit that we are going to use for recording my conversation with Sarah Amsler from the University of Nottingham,…
For some time I have been writing and speaking about academic alienation. This has taken a Marxist-humanist approach to understanding academic work, and the alienation of academic labour-power. I have always been interested in the lived experience of alienation, and…
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…
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 will be developing some of my thinking about HE at a British Educational Research Association symposium, Debating theories of neoliberalism: New perspectives and framings in education research tomorrow. My abstract and references are here. The flyer can be downloaded…