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.
An ecologies and ecosystems approach to understanding the creative and cultural economy
Reporting from Effecting Change a symposium for an ecosystems and ecologies approach to understanding the creative and cultural economy.
The best questions are often the last questions: making sense of experimental creative practice as research
Unpacking practice/research, and the challenge of formulating a research question in experimental creative inquiry.
Effecting Change: mapping the value of creative and cultural industries
Effecting Change is a half-day symposium on creative industries hosted by Solent University in association with Creative Network South.
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.
Writing Praxis: promoting critical reflection among media practice students through blogging in Project-led Problem-based Learning (Conference Proceedings)
The paper explores writing praxis through research undertaken into the implementation of course blogs on an undergraduate media practice programme.
Making Projects Real in an HE Context (Book Chapter)
The book chapter sets out to challenge educators to rethink projects and see them as a practice rather than as a model of management the authors explore the possibilities for using live projects to enhance real-world learning in higher education.
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.
Shadow Sites, Peripheral Spaces, Embodied Places: the 48-hour film challenge as a locus for film industry project networks
Shadow Sites, Peripheral Spaces, Embodied Places: the 48-hour film challenge as a locus for film industry project networks
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?