Jul 13, 2023
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...
May 20, 2023
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...
Mar 21, 2023
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...
Mar 20, 2023
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...
Dec 19, 2022
Jen Ross, Michael Gallagher and I had a blast writing a new set of speculative scenarios and short stories for using in workshops and discussions with our students and networks. We worked with Lizzie Abernethy at Andthen on the design of eight ‘tarot’...
Aug 30, 2022
Our 2022 Research Centre report celebrates the diversity of our research and its championing of work addressing educational inequalities, digital and data ethics and education futures. It also reports on the usual money and outputs stuff. Please read and enjoy it...