#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
In this podcast I decided to try not to use the words interesting and important too often. Instead, I got a little vexed by listening to Sam Gyimah and Michael Barber at the recent WonkHE event, with their standard focus…
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…
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…
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’m presenting tomorrow at the SCUTREA 2018 conference on Lifelong Learning and the Pedagogy of Hope at the University of Sheffield. I am presenting on the development of governance and pedagogic practices of Leicester Vaughan College, which is a Community…
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…
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…
You have to know what’s wrong before you can find what’s right Toni Morrison. Song of Solomon. as far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of…