How to Mend a University. received my author copy 😊 from @BloomsburyAcEd I hope readers will find a number of ideas within the pages that will initiate interesting discussions about the future of our universities .

Two volumes on leadership identity in Higher Education are now both available in paperback from : https://t.co/zk1gpLtizM 🙂

Now available for pre-order at: https://t.co/bTB62anTXL Due to be published September 2025 😎

@DocWinstone @SurreyIoE Thank you professor Naomi, I’m extremely proud of my department @SurreyIoE, a place that collectively nurtures PhD students and engages with them throughout their research journey ♥️ The proof is in the picture 😍@IanKinchin @EmmaMedland @GravettKaren @anesa @MarionHeron

The Ecological University Is the narrative desert that surrounds the value of emeritus academics just one of the symptoms of the 'ecologically sick university'? 🌴

Reflections on composting the Emeriti in an era of academic zombification. https://t.co/IdMe9mOfHi Published today. 🙂 .

On reviewing the literature on Critical University Studies, I ask if it is possible to identify stages to ecological collapse (extinction) of the modern university? I suggest six steps below, and ask on which step you might position your institution on this scale:

From The Boss. He put it perfectly. Thank you Bruce Springsteen. https://t.co/d7sRS1ZuVJ

A fascinating read from Boaventura de Sousa Santos: "In a few decades, the university as we know it will have virtually disappeared" The question is, does anyone really care about Higher Education? Or will it become corporate nonsense? 🧐

📢 New article alert! "Politics of rhythm and crisis in the slow death of higher education: implications for academic work and student support" by Robert Shaw and Matej Blazek. Available at: https://t.co/nTa5gFU4nu

Reclaiming the teaching discourse Just checking the proofs and still excited by the line up of authors Contents:

Pleased to have this essay published in Pedagogika https://t.co/qsJMcNDHZa where I introduce the idea of epistemological rehabilitation. grateful thanks to Anna McNamara and Karen Gravett for their influence on this.

Congratulations to Martyn and Camille on the publication of their new book. Includes my chapter with @k_gravett on fostering belonging through student-staff research projects. 🎉

Reclaiming the Teaching Discourse Now available for pre-order: https://t.co/h9INKm2pCu 😀

Just approved the cover design of my 14th (and final ?) book (with Tanya Hathaway & Namrata Rao) with the publishers @BloomsburyAcEd Many thanks to all my collaborators over the years especially those who worked on multiple titles: @NamrataRao22 @anesa @DocWinstone @k_gravett ❤️

A hot summer night. All the lights on and all the windows open but not a single flying insect in the house. Rachel Carson was right! But not an election issue in 2024. 🐝🐞🪰🪲

Is it my imagination or in GenAI much better at producing images of a dystopian university of the future than a utopian vision? I guess it depends how much information it has on each. A bit depressing!!

AI vs. Concept Mapping Is this the answer to the 'problem' of AI in assessment? This image was produced by ChatGPT when asked for a Novakian Concept Map of 'the ecological university'. Just get students to produce concept maps - I've been saying it for years!! 🙂

I’m a lecturer – universities have been ruined by willy-waving managers - article in today’s i

Of course a rhizome has a structure. You just have to look at it in the right way (transverse section of a fern rhizome - photo by author).

Just published : 😀