Some positive publication news to end the week! I’m really pleased to share that my good colleague Shelby Terral, PhD 👑 and I have had our book chapter, “Human-Centered AI Across the Atlantic: Govern...

Super happy to have chapter proposal / abstract accepted for this Springer Nature volume- AI, Interculturality and Language in Teacher Education. Time to get writing! #academicpublishing #highered...

Interesting (if not surprising) development from OpenAI on text provenance. For now EU and not the UK, but one can guess the direction of travel. The technical question of whether AI was involved ma...

And so I’ve started. Today was my first Level 8 class as I start the long journey towards one day hopefully obtaining my DProf and becoming Dr. Firr (my eleven year daughter said that sounds so weird)...

Week two of That Was the Week That Was: UK Higher Education. I started this weekly series to keep a public record of developments across UK higher education that connect with the areas I am exploring...

The week to 26 September 2026 I am beginning this weekly series as I prepare to start my professional doctorate. I want it to provide a public record of developments that seem relevant to my emerging ...

Peer review gets criticised a lot and AI will continue to raise questions about how long the current model can continue. However, I have just had reviewer feedback on a journal article, and the proces...

Drivers across Britain already now pay an average of 197.75p for a litre of diesel - just over a penny away from the 199.09p record set in June 2022, according to the RAC.

One of the best parts of teaching MSc Engineering Management is seeing students connect academic learning with something they can carry directly into professional practice, that’s important right? So...

What the latest data are telling us about UK international student recruitment #HigherEducation #InternationalStudents #StudentRecruitment #UKHigherEducation

Discussion about AI in higher education continues as it has on visible tools like ChatGPT and AI-generated writing etc but a bigger change coming might be less visible to us. I was reading about Jev, ...

When ChatGPT was released at the end of 2022, academic publishers had to establish rules for generative AI at remarkable speed. The immediate concerns centred on authorship and responsibility; publish...

I don’t really want to do one of those ‘pleased to announce’ posts, so will go with- I’m just super excited to start! If at 18, (and having been told by school in no uncertain terms University proba...

A small request as the new academic year begins. As Meta glasses and other wearable technologies become more common, ‘covert’ recording in classrooms is going to become increasingly easy. I get that i...

This is GPT-6 Astra.  Anything you can do on a computer, Astra can do for you, fast. GPT-6 Astra is the most intelligent and aligned model in the world, and sets a new state of the art for compute...

My first ever formal appearance as a guest on a podcast piece now published, and long but not ‘too’ cringe, or I certainly hope it doesn’t come across that way! Maybe I’ll do another in the future. ...

I think we need AI in peer review, but in a mechanical way and right at the outset. This is now becoming a trend, it’s not a one off, at all. I receive the work to review and I simply cannot review ...

Shameless plug but if you don’t back yourself who will? For anyone researching anything around the Young Enterprise / Junior Achievement Start Up Programme this book is an absolute must read- Cases ...

Has anyone used the Work feature on ChatGPT? I think I’ve finally got my head around this (slow to party I know) but I’m an academic trying to keep up! Oh my goodness, agentic AI ethics feels like t...

He resigned last week and said "relentless accusations, speculation and public commentary" had taken a "profound toll on me and on those I love".

Well-designed assessments can highlight generative AI’s limitations, where it can provide support and what responsible practice looks like. Andrew Firr and Alex Fenton offer strategies

AI watermarking is making me think about project priorities- can this end well? So Anthropic has outlined how the new Claude models will embed machine-readable ‘watermarks’ into generated text. The w...

FIFA has spent several weeks dealing with a leadership crisis centred on its president, Gianni Infantino, and an abandoned proposal to sell…

Beyond the Paper #1: Continuing the conversation after peer review Beyond the Paper explores ideas that continue beyond peer-reviewed publication and considers their wider meaning for scholarship and ...

ALT: Man Exclaims 'YESS!!' Enthusiastically

So first day back in work after ten days in wonderful Croatia and… I began reviewing a proposed academic book chapter. Before considering its argument, I carried out a preliminary reference and citat...

The chapter my colleague Andrew John Firr and I wrote on AI governance in higher education in the US and UK is under peer review 👏😍 Let’s hope they go easy on us! 😅🤞

A sport club is not only a sporting institution. It is a dense accumulation of founding myths, statues, museums, official histories, hall-of-fame portraits, anniversaries and commemorative rituals through which a collectivity tells itself who it is. In Pierre Nora’s terms, the club operates as a lieux de mémoire: a site where a chosen past is consecrated, made visible and put to work in the present. This special issue takes that proposition seriously and asks a single guiding question across different national settings: how does a club’s manufactured heritage actively shape its present.

One of the more interesting things I’ve noticed this year is that allowing students to use AI in assessment hasn’t changed grades nearly as much as I expected. In my project management modules, studen...