Becoming a Beginner Again: Reflections on Learning, Struggle, and Pedagogy
Returning to the classroom at 65 to study Chinese prompted a reflection on what it means to learn as an adult — and becoming a beginner again.
Learning & Teaching
Always Leaving, Never Arriving: The Cultural Revolution of Change Management
When change management becomes permanent revolution, improvement never arrives — only exhaustion, instability, and loss.
Generative AI and the Creative Industries: A Call for Sector-Specific Action in Higher Education
A response to Michael Webb’s Jisc keynote arguing for a sector-specific AI strategy, focused on practice, agency, and curriculum change.
Rethinking Trust and Collaboration in Academic Development
A reflective response on trust, intrapreneurship and academic development, questioning whose voices are heard and how learning is positioned.
AI and UK Screen Production: We Need to Talk About What’s Happening Now, Not in Ten Years
AI is transforming UK screen production workflows, roles, and skills. Discover what Higher Education must do now to prepare graduates for an AI-driven industry.
The Neoliberal ‘real’ in UK higher education
The neoliberal real is a disciplinary discourse of power and exclusion in UK higher education that universities need to resist.
Read, Write, Blog, Reflect (Case Study)
In this case study, Roy Hanney outlines a ‘read write blog reflect’ approach, designed to improve students’ academic reading and writing skills.
In the belly of the beast: Legalism vs Epistemology & the Ethics of Self-plagiarism
I asked a genuine question about self-plagiarism and it lead to a full and frank debate which I have tried to summarise in this blog post.
Let’s not wait, let’s get on with beating the attainment gap – the time for talking is over!
How do you develop a strategy for narrowing the attainment gap, what are the challenges and how would you address them?
Get that Meeting – marketing yourself as a brand via Linkedin
Aimed at students, the video looks at the marketing funnel can help grow your network on Linkedin.