Actions toward digital education utopia

Actions toward digital education utopia

During the process of peer review of my recent paper, Digital Education Utopia – mostly an analytical, speculative and methodology-oriented paper on the utopian ‘impulse’ in digital education – one of the reviewers asked the question,...
New paper: Digital Education Utopia

New paper: Digital Education Utopia

Over my recent sabbatical I worked with the idea of utopia, in particular Ruth Levitas’s Utopia as Method, in order to try to understand how we might move digital education – and education generally – toward a more hopeful future. The paper weaves...
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...