We had a party…

We had a party…

This May we celebrated two major milestones – ten years since the launch of our Centre for Research in Digital Education, and a staggering 20 years since our Masters programme in Digital Education started recruiting. Over the last two decades we have had the privilege...
Planetarised humanity in the Swiss Alps

Planetarised humanity in the Swiss Alps

It was lovely to be invited to Switzerland this month, as part of the Villars Anticipation Workshop on Planetarised Humanity hosted by GESDA  – the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator. The workshop focused on the transdisciplinary challenges of ‘planetarised...
New Masters course: Utopia and the future

New Masters course: Utopia and the future

This month, I ran my new Masters course for the first time – Utopia and the Future. It’s a course on the Edinburgh Futures Institute’s programme Education Futures and focuses on helping students use the scholarship of utopia to open up new ways of thinking about...
New paper: Speculative futures for higher education

New paper: Speculative futures for higher education

Jen Ross and I published a paper which sets out the methodological basis of our Higher Education Futures work: Bayne, S., Ross, J. Speculative futures for higher education. Int J Educ Technol High Educ 21, 39 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-024-00469-y It...