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…
‘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…
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…
A bunch of decolonising stuff
I’m pleased to be contributing to a Decolonising Critical Thought Workshop on 5 May. My position statement is given below. Through my own practice as research and evaluation lead for the Decolonising De Montfort University (DDMU) project, I am drawn…
Ill-being and the University
I’m presenting on Ill-being and the University, at the NNMHR Congress 2021: Medical Humanities: In(Visibility) My abstract and slides are appended below. My work will build upon some thoughts in my forthcoming book on The Hopeless University, connected to work on the…
The Hopeless University
It looks likely that my next monograph, The hopeless university: intellectual work at the end of the end of history will be out with MayFly Books in early May. There is a synopsis here. There is a podcast here. I…
Research and the COVID-19 crisis: International Day of Education
I’m speaking at DMU’s panel session on: Research and the COVID-19 crisis – International Day of Education. My talk is on: Covid-19 and the idea of the University The idea of the University is being challenged at the intersection of crises,…