For anyone attending the APME (@PopMusicEd) conference at @LIPALiverpool this week, I'll be presenting tomorrow on Improvisation as Liberatory Praxis in Popular Music Education. Pop along and see me in room 405 at 12:20 if you fancy it: https://t.co/cGmg01WF8V @sched

Liberation, Freedom and Counter-Hegemonic Praxis: Towards a critical pedagogy of pop music education A link to my presentation at the first ever non-US @PopMusicEd conference that we hosted at @EdinburghNapier last year: https://t.co/z8px9RHGl7 #musiceducation #findyourpeople

Although I wasn't able to make it to New Jersey for the International Society for the Sociology of Music Education conference, it was great to get the opportunity to present this online. It was also lovely to get the opportunity to see the work of some friends and colleagues!

It was great to play a part in organising this event at @EdinburghNapier in which we were exploring ways to develop music education provision for adults in rural Scotland and celebrating the work of @CIMSRS, Arianna Ranieri's excellent PhD project! #musiceducation #ruralscotland

I have a PhD student who is looking to recruit classroom music teachers (not instrumental instructors!) in Scotland for study. It would involve speaking to her for around 45 minutes (online or in person) about your experiences of teaching music. Please contact me if you can help!

New article: Capitalist Realism and Higher Popular Music Education: Towards a counter-hegemonic alternative in 'Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education' Direct link to PDF version of the work here: https://t.co/cGZ6S9tjlM #musiceducation #capitalistrealism #highered

🎵 | Unsigned artist in Scotland? @MirrorGlassRec - founded by #EdNapier students in 2021 - is looking to sign artists who are ready to release their music! The label is excited to work with passionate artists who stand to create a new, fairer, and more ethical model for the

This is an excellent project and one that is bringing so much joy through music education to rural areas in Scotland. It is a pleasure to be supervising Arianna's PhD and to see the incredible work that she's doing in this area. For more info, check out @CIMSRS #musiceducation

Just arrived. Two of the books that started a long journey engaging education as central to politics.

I am giving an online seminar on Tuesday 19th November on how transformational accounts of students' undergraduate education are evoked by their engagement with knowledge. If you're interested then you can find more details and register here:

Bikes been nicked. This is the only recent pic I have. Old green Kona mahuna, slx brakes, DT dynamo hub, dt swiss and Mavic wheels. Built it all myself. Not worth much but massively so to me. Anyone happens to spot it please let me know

There were some beautiful things happening in the sky outside the kitchen window last night. I know the internet is saturated (pun intended!) with these at the moment but it’s the first time I’ve caught the aurora on camera and I find it mesmerising! #aurora #AuroraBorealis

Earlier this year, we published a Special Issue on precarity in #HigherEd In March 2025, @SRHE73 will organise a symposium based on this SI: Responding to the challenges posed by precarity in higher education teaching Read more and register ⬇️ https://t.co/LJYDQtkBWg

Chuffed to have my print The Temple of The Four Winds included in the Ironbridge Fine Arts Printmaking Exhibition which runs until 16/11/24. See the print info here: https://t.co/o3L5jlrqB5 The building is on the @CastleHowardEst estate. Printed on lovely @AwagamiFactory paper.

I've made 7 free online courses to help you read Karl Marx: Reading Marx's Capital v1 (2019 & 2007 eds) Reading Marx's Capital v2 Reading Marx's Grundrisse (2023 & 2020 eds) Marx, Capital, & the Madness of Economic Reason The ABC of Contemporary Capital https://t.co/MsUUQ5JqYK

Nice to see my prints on the wall in the Bridging Gaps exhibition at @artcraftcollect earlier this week. It’s open Tuesday-Saturday 11-5 until the 31st of August. There are some very beautiful pieces from some very talented artists - go and have a look if you can.

I am stepping down as Editor of Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. Please read here about the call for a new Editor. Great opportunity.

I am pleased to have three of my prints in the @artcraftcollect summer exhibition which opens today and runs all month. Each of the prints is an edition of five and I am even more pleased that one of the prints has already sold - before the exhibition even opened! #bridginggaps

Never even liked tennis anyway.

Thanks to everyone who came to see my talk yesterday at the APME conference here at @EdinburghNapier - this picture seems to sum it up quite well, I think. The framework was based on the central pillars of love for our students and hope for the future, despite difficult times!