There is no way out but through
At a couple of recent discussion events around The Hopeless University, I have been asked what is to be done? For a variety of reasons, I didn’t give the answers that I perhaps might have done....
View ArticleDecolonising DMU and the PGR Experience
With Lucy Ansley, I spoke about decolonising and the PGR experience at the first Decolonising the Research Degree, network event this morning. The aim of the session was: to situate work on...
View ArticleDecolonising Research Ethics
Earlier I generated a presentation on decolonising research ethics, for the Decolonising the STEM Curriculum working group, being led by Lara Lalemi a PhD candidate at Bristol, working in Chemistry....
View ArticleDecolonising the PGR experience: resources
I am privileged to have been asked to speak today at the University of Exeter, Decolonising Research Festival. NB I owe a huge debt to Drs Lucy Ansley and Paris Connolly who have made huge...
View ArticleNotes on leaving UCU
I joined NATFHE in 1994. When it merged with the AUT and formed UCU, I migrated across. I had never not been on strike when called. I had never not picketed. Even on my own. Even in the rain. Even with...
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Ill-Being and the Hopeless University
On June 14th, 2023, I am leading an Ends of Knowledge reading group and seminar. The blurb for the event is pasted below, and you can sign-up via Eventbrite. Ill-being and the Hopeless University...
View ArticleBeyond the Limits of Solidarity in the Post-Pandemic University
I have a new paper accepted in a forthcoming Special Issue: Organisation in the (Post)Pandemic University, of Work organisation, labour & globalisation. The paper is titled Beyond the Limits of...
View Articleon the violence of academic silence
Eve Tuck elevates and centres the question, “how shall we live?”, in her 2018 talk, “I Do Not Want To Haunt You But I Will: Indigenous Feminist Theorizing on Reluctant Theories of Change.” This is...
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what might be done in the name of peace?
Perhaps the Western academic swallows their shaky voice for fear of their academic positions, careers, future salaries, and social standings. Nevertheless, there must be a greater reward for this...
View Articlesome stuff on Palestine-Israel
A list of resources (mainly podcasts) that I have been engaging with, in order to work through how I feel about Palestine-Israel. I have an eye to deepening my own (self-) awareness, focusing on...
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