Breakfast in Xiaoshan: On Visions, Longing, and Basslines
Breakfast in Xiaoshan reflects on China, memory, migration and orientalism, tracing how a distant cultural vision became a lived encounter.
Is there really a “reading crisis” in universities?
Is there a reading crisis in universities, or should higher education teach reading more explicitly through structured practice?
Rethinking Peer Review for Creative Practice Research
Rethinking peer review for creative practice research as an ongoing process of articulation, dialogue and discovery.
Unstable Problems and the Future of Assessment
Unstable problems and the future of assessment: why open tasks should test judgement, problem framing and sustained inquiry, not recall.
The Skills Alchemy Gap: Are Creative Degrees Preparing Students for the Industry That Actually Exists?
Are creative degrees preparing students for today’s industry? Explore the skills alchemy of transversal and business-critical learning.
Nolan’s Odysseus, Power and the Fantasy of Remorse
Kathryn Lawson argues that Nolan’s guilt-ridden Odysseus turns violence into redemption, replacing accountability with a ‘great men’ fantasy.
Model Canvases for Experience Design: A Practical Toolkit for Designing Location-Based and Immersive Experiences
A practical toolkit of model canvases for designing location-based, immersive and experiential projects, from ideation to reflection and agile project development.
Reflection on the comparison between research-articulation and research-exposition
A reflection comparing research articulation and research exposition as complementary ways of making creative practice research legible, reviewable and open to encounter.
New Podcast Episode: Dr Scott McLaughlin on Making Creative Practice Research Explicit
Roy Hanney and Scott McLaughlin explore research articulation, exposition, methods and how creative practice research can be made explicit or encountered.
Micro-Dramas and the Future of Storytelling (Big Issue article)
In a recent article for The Big Issue, I was invited to share thoughts on the rise of vertical micro-dramas and the future of storytelling.