Sandra Abegglen, Tom Burns, Richard F. Heller, Rajan Madhok, Fabian Neuhaus, John Sandars, Sandra Sinfield, Upasana Gitanjali Singh

I enjoyed reading this Research Whisperer post: Help! I’m an Early Career Researcher and genAI doesn’t know who I am. Early career researcher Dr Tess Shirefley shares a personal encounter with gene…

For my first slow reading of the year, I am rereading an article in the Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education special issue on slow academia that Sean Sturm and I edited last year. In a previou…

There’s no nice way to talk about redundancy. It doesn’t arrive as a single moment, even when there is a single date attached to it. It arrives in phases: uncertainty, waiting, the conversation its…

I like to end the year by reflecting on achievements, enjoyments and challenges at work and beyond. This time, a first for the blog — a giveaway of three of my favourite books from 2025. As I get r…

I like to end the year by reflecting on achievements, enjoyments and challenges at work and beyond. This time, a first for the blog — a giveaway of three of my favourite books from 2025. As I get r…

Our open access special issue is available! I am excited to share the newly published issue of Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education (Volume 7, Issue 1) on slow academia which I co-edited with …

I have always liked online learning, and ever since my first MOOC experiences (with the “Evidence-based undergraduate STEM teaching” MOOC on Coursera back in 2015, which set me on the path of letting ...

It’s a great feeling when years of collaborative research come to fruition! This February, colleagues and I have had three articles published, which was possible through the power of co-autho…

Reflection is a foundational concept and practice across the higher education sector, recognised for its role in supporting student learning and professional development. This comment paper frames ...

This reflection on practice presents an exemplar of an integrated distributed leadership and reciprocal peer review of an academic development initiative. Distributed leadership, characterised by c...

#metoo and Higher Education: Call for papers Ceridwen Spark and I are excited to release this call for papers for a special issue of Higher Education Research…

This month’s slow reading comes via Bluesky, which I have recently joined. It is wonderful to catch up with folk I lost in the great untwittering and to find new connections. This month&#8217…

I am just scraping into November with this slow reading post. Here in the southern hemisphere the weather is heating up (too much); the school, university and work year is ending; and we are hurtli…

As always, I am enjoying the little things in life and at work. We are in the countdown to the end of the working year and the long stretch of school holidays from December to February. The weather…

I’ve had a phrase in my mind for some time that captures a way of teaching that intuitively appeals to me: I’m calling it the pedagogy of letting go. I mentioned this in a panel last week at Staffo…

Australian academics required to ‘act up’ for years before being paid for it, analysis finds

ALT: a man sitting on a couch with his arms outstretched in front of a bookshelf

YouTube video by Daisy Abbott: Game-based Learning Research

Truly tragic beauty.  Heriot-Watt (Edinburgh) campus woods. Submitted by @thedeadsocialscientist