Scorched earth technologies: work-in-progress seminar

Scorched earth technologies: work-in-progress seminar

I recently gave a seminar at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, based on the work I completed there as a Sabbatical Fellow. The talk recording is available below. Its main focus was – of course – digital education. This is one of the...
Podcast: desiring otherwise

Podcast: desiring otherwise

 I very much enjoyed chatting to Felipe Sánchez recently for an episode of the ‘What is the future of education?’ series hosted by the University of Lancaster. It was my first chance to talk in any detail about the work I’ve been doing during my sabbatical year. So...
Recording: reimagined futures for higher education workshop

Recording: reimagined futures for higher education workshop

Jen Ross, Michael Gallagher and I recently ran a short online workshop using our HE tarot cards. The recording is now available here. We unsettled assumed futures and imagined new, desirable ones for universities via a mix of research-sharing, storytelling and...
New Fellowship: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities

New Fellowship: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities

I’m on sabbatical for six months until end of June 2023, and feel very lucky also to have a Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) over this period. IASH is a fabulous hub for interdisciplinary research, attracting visiting...
Fusion teaching here and there: podcast

Fusion teaching here and there: podcast

The teaching model we have designed for the new Edinburgh Futures Institute works hard to connect online and on-campus students together into a single community. We’ve called it the ‘fusion model’ and it relies on great tech in the room, a very...