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Richard Watermeyer

@rpwatermeyer.bsky.social
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Dad of Three | Sociologist | Professor of Higher Education at University of Bristol | Co-Director of CHET | West Ham Season TH | Wannabe Surfer | Half Saffa

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Richard Watermeyer @rpwatermeyer.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Should Generative AI tools be used for the UK’s REF? Have your say here: tinyurl.com/4ca8h2rm @lawriephipps.co.uk @proftomcrick.com @rodolfo-benites.bsky.social @chet-bristol.bsky.social @soebristol.bsky.social @jisc.bsky.social
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Should Generative AI tools be used for the REF?
This survey is intended to collect views from across the UK higher education community as to whether generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools should be used for Research Excellence Framework (...
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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
⏰Get your tickets today! Join us for our sixth seminar “The death of prestige: disbanding a rankings imperative” with Leslie Gonzales, Michelle Stack, Georgiana Mihut, PhD and Camille B. Kandiko Howson. 📅Date: Wed, March 26th 🕐Time: 1:00 p.m. (GMT) 📍ONLINE Register here ▶ shorturl.at/cS6U7
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Richard Watermeyer @rpwatermeyer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
WHO SHOULD LEAD UK UNIVERSITIES? 📢 All UK academics and professional services staff, there is still time to provide your views on who you think is best placed for Vice-Chancellor roles by completing this short survey (est. 10 minutes completion time): tinyurl.com/3xsbjwwa
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Who should lead universities?
This survey is intended to collect views from across the UK higher education community on whether academics or non-academics are best placed to lead UK universities.
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Richard Watermeyer @rpwatermeyer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
📢 All UK academics and professional services staff: WHO DO YOU THINK SHOULD LEAD UK UNIVERSITIES? Please provide your views on whether academics or non-academics are best placed for Vice-Chancellor roles by completing this short survey (est. 10 minutes completion time): tinyurl.com/3xsbjwwa
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Who should lead universities?
This survey is intended to collect views from across the UK higher education community on whether academics or non-academics are best placed to lead UK universities.
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Interesting post from @lsebr.bsky.social @andresbafer.bsky.social Christopher Neilson & Seth Zimmerman suggesting that who you know is, is more important than what you know at elite higher education institutions #AcademicSky #HigherEducation blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Steve Jones @profstevenjones.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
51% of people in the UK know “not much or very little” about what their local university is actually for, which contrasts with many institutions' confident rhetoric about their central place in 'the community'. universityappg.co.uk/resources/re...
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Understanding the knowledge gap: public perceptions of UK universities | APPG
Research we commissioned from Public First shows that parents want their children to go to university, but there’s a knowledge gap between the public and higher education institutions.
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Sazana Jayadeva @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Come work with @alinecourtois.bsky.social @rachelbrooks.bsky.social & myself on a new Open Research Area project, ‘Virtual Mobilities of International Students: towards a new model for the internationalisation of higher education?' www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... Deadline: 5 Jan 2025 Pls repost!
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CH12254 Research Assistant/Research Associate - Jobs at Bath
Research Assistant/ Research Associate
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Hannah White @drhannahwhite.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Fantastic opportunity to join the @instituteforgov.bsky.social as a researcher - please flag to all the brilliant people you know! www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/about-us/car...
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Researcher | Institute for Government
We are inviting applications for researchers, to start as soon as notice periods allow.
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Richard Watermeyer @rpwatermeyer.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Academics' weak(ening) resistance to Generative AI tools: link.springer.com/article/10.1... New from @donnalanclos.com @lawriephipps.bsky.social Hanne Shapiro @danielleguizzo.bsky.social @cathryn-knight.bsky.social and me.
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Academics’ Weak(ening) Resistance to Generative AI: The Cause and Cost of Prestige? - Postdigital Science and Education
The disruptive potential of generative AI (GenAI) tools to academic labour is potentially vast. Yet as we argue herein, such tools also represent a continuation of the inequities inherent to academia’...
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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
⏰Get your tickets today! Join @davidstaley8.bsky.social @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social Darren Moon and @jkom.bsky.social on Dec 11th at 1:00 p.m. (GMT) for our next online seminar “The reshaping of #HigherEd by #DigitalTech”. 🔗Register here ▶ shorturl.at/ifwnA #HigherEducation #Digitalisation #AI
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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Access our Starter Pack ➡️ go.bsky.app/8MuPLnT
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Richard Watermeyer @rpwatermeyer.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Great to see The Centre for Higher Education Transformations (CHET) now on Bluesky @chet-bristol.bsky.social
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Richard Watermeyer @rpwatermeyer.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Looking forward to this @chet-bristol.bsky.social and IoE CHES seminar on HE internationalisation with amazing speakers Hans de Wit, Malcolm Tight, Jenna Mittelmeier and Catherine Montgomery. All details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/undoing-in...
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Undoing internationalisation?
Eventbrite - Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET presents Undoing internationalisation? - Wednesday, November 27, 2024 - Find event and ticket information.
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Richard Watermeyer @rpwatermeyer.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Do we need a league table of scholars produced by Silicon Valley?: wonkhe.com/blogs/do-we-... New from @lawriephipps.bsky.social @donnalanclos.com and me in today’s @wonkhe.bsky.social.
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Do we need a league table of scholars produced by Silicon Valley?
For Lawrie Phipps, Donna Lanclos, and Richard Watermayer a new ranking of individual academics is a troubling development in a changing academic landscape
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
NEW on Wonkhe: For Lawrie Phipps, Donna Lanclos, and Richard Watermayer a new ranking of individual academics is a troubling development in a changing academic landscape buff.ly/4eLzJyF
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Richard Watermeyer @rpwatermeyer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Are professors "Intellectual Leaders"? 📢 Calling all Associate & Full Professors, working in any discipline/university in the world. What are the opportunities & barriers you face as providers of 'intellectual leadership'? Please complete/circulate this important global survey: tinyurl.com/25jtcabf
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