Reflections on building rapport with university students in an online context

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

As with other educators, the rapid shift to online delivery during lockdown has led to self-reflection on my teaching skills, how they transfer online, and my ability to use online tools...

Flipping the course curriculum: Digital engagement for active learning

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

Digital engagement has steadily become an important part of an educator’s pedagogic repertoire since universities started offering courses online in the early 2000s. In light of the Covid-19...

Building on Covid-19 experiences for future organisational improvisations

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

This recent period of responding to the Covid-19 pandemic has been particularly unexpected and required a very rapid response by everyone across university systems. The use of online delivery as...

Values first, goals second

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

I have a certain disquiet about the way we in higher education so often relate success and failure to the attainment or otherwise of goals. This focus on goals is present at all levels of...

Taking a year out? The ambitious teleology of higher education for cultivating a self-aware society

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

In the much-quoted Heraclitean aphorism, ‘the road up and down is one and the same’ (see for example Russell, 2004, p. 51), the pre-Socratic philosopher introduces a radical relativism and...

Digital equity: Learning in lockdown for the autistic student

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

Many of us in the higher education sector are frantically working to place our modules online. This digital transformation at pace can result in short-term decisions, so it is imperative that at...

Flattening the awarding gap through identity work

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

The awarding gap is starkest between the likelihood of White (domiciled) students and Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) (domiciled) students being awarded a ‘good’ degree in the United...

Engaging international students in the UK: The experiences of Christian churches

International student mobility has been increasingly affected by politics, culture, economics, natural disasters and public health. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic this year, we have witnessed the...

The impact of Covid-19 and the UK public lockdown on postgraduate research students in the UK

Covid-19, education and educational research

While disruption to educational ‘norms’ has received coverage since the public lockdown, less attention has been shown to the impact of the public lockdown on postgraduate research students....

Advancing posthumanist perspectives on technology-rich learning

Picture your favourite childhood toy. What was it? What did you learn from it? How did you know it was for you? These questions, and others like it, underpin the questions raised by posthumanist...

Education: An academic discipline or a field?

What is the problem? Education research has periodically been sharply criticised for being weak in comparison with research from other disciplines. Some of this criticism has implied, or...

Anti-racist mathematics teacher education

Education, #BlackLivesMatter and racial justice in the UK and beyond

On 28 August 2020 thousands marched through Washington DC to mark the 57th anniversary of the famous ‘I have a dream’ speech by Martin Luther King Jr. My research interests include anti-racism...