Jun 23, 2021
Our annual report covering our work during 2020-2021, a very hard and immensely strange year, is out and we are proud of all we’ve done through the pandemic time. The report opens with a poem from Jim Carruth looking ahead to better times post-COVID. It includes...
May 7, 2021
Michael Gallagher and I have been working with the UNA Europa partnership of European universities to co-write a position paper for the future university. This is part of our work with the UNA Future UniLab. Europe’s universities have shaped and influenced the world...
Apr 9, 2021
I was really pleased to be invited to give the annual Drapers lecture at Queen Mary University of London (online of course…) this March. I used it to talk about the future of digital education and how this traumatic last year might shape and change the way...
Apr 8, 2021
Edinburgh University is a member of the UNA Europa alliance of eight universities which includes Freie Universität Berlin, Università di Bologna, Helsingin Yliopisto, Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie, KU Leuven, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Université...
Nov 4, 2020
I was very happy to be nominated for one of the Edinburgh University ‘breakthroughs of the year’ for the Falling Walls competition 2020. I didn’t win but was happy with my pitch, which used the Near Future Teaching project to make the point that...