Notes on leaving UCU
I joined NATFHE in 1994. When it merged with the AUT and formed UCU, I migrated across. I had never not been on strike when called. I had never not picketed. Even on my own. Even in the rain. Even…
Richard Hall's Space
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Richard Hall's Space
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A conversation at the Documentary Media Centre for #16DaysOfActivism
I spoke with John Coster yesterday (yeah, yeah, I know it was a UCU strike day) for Day 6 of #16DaysOfActivism from across the Parallel Lives Network. The programme takes a look at the range of takes on activism and…
Online seminar and slides: on alienation, hopelessness and the abolition of the University
On Wednesday October 5th, 2022, at 15-18.00 (EEST) and 13-16.00 (BST), I’ll be facilitating an online session on: “The Alienated academic and the Hopeless University with Professor Richard Hall” My slides are appended below and available on my Slideshare, with…
Decolonising the PGR experience: resources
I am privileged to have been asked to speak today at the University of Exeter, Decolonising Research Festival. NB I owe a huge debt to Drs Lucy Ansley and Paris Connolly who have made huge contributions to this work. It’s…
‘Whiteness is an immoral choice’: The idea of the University at the intersection of crises
With Raj Gill at DMU, and Sol Gamsu at Durham, I have a paper accepted in Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, entitled ‘Whiteness is an immoral choice’: The idea of the University at the intersection of…
Decolonising Research Ethics
Earlier I generated a presentation on decolonising research ethics, for the Decolonising the STEM Curriculum working group, being led by Lara Lalemi a PhD candidate at Bristol, working in Chemistry. Lara is part of the Creative Tuition Collective, which offers…
Decolonising DMU and the PGR Experience
With Lucy Ansley, I spoke about decolonising and the PGR experience at the first Decolonising the Research Degree, network event this morning. The aim of the session was: to situate work on decolonising the PGR experience, inside an institutional programme…
new book: The Palgrave International Handbook of Marxism and Education
Working with Inny Accioly (Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Krystian Szadkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland), I have a contract with Palgrave Macmillan for an International Handbook of Marxism and Education. Our working proposal is appended…
There is no way out but through
At a couple of recent discussion events around The Hopeless University, I have been asked what is to be done? For a variety of reasons, I didn’t give the answers that I perhaps might have done. Instead, I pushed the…
Published, The Hopeless University: Intellectual Work at the end of The End of History
The Hopeless University: Intellectual Work at the end of The End of History has been published by MayFly Books, and is available as a download from the MayFly website. If you do read/download from there please consider donating to support…