Fragments

I was honoured to be invited to interact with academics at UAL’s Teaching Platform Series in February 2018. I chose to speak about why I think situating the artist-student is important for assessment in the creative arts, and to highlight how recognizing the challenges is the point of the issue. This post relates to that … Continue reading Challenges to situating the artist-student within interpretation

In this past fortnight, I have been fortunate enough to be accepted as a member of a newly formed network and as an associate fellow of a prestigious research institute. The network is newly formed, though the debates and concerns which have led to its formations are not. Universities have always been fraught spaces, with … Continue reading Notes on networks, connections and ‘work’

While I was working on how to respond to the possibilities of a Higher Education Studies course, that brings together the often disparate islands of teaching and learning, research, policy for agents across diverse international contexts, I was fortunate enough to get an opportunity to present at the colleagial space of Society for Research into … Continue reading Questions of authorship to guide curriculum development of a Higher Education Studies course connecting international contexts

The discussion of this blog, and the basis for what I am proposing here, does not come from my current institutional context in the UK/ EU. It comes from my experiences of working with staff in both formal courses in academic development and Higher Education Studies (HES), and in informal consultation and research collaborations related … Continue reading The conditions for difference and disruption to catalyse ethical obligation in HE