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Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
I went on a course on emotional intelligence … so interested in this piece that came up in this weeks Times Higher Education: It is about recognising your own emotional reactions to what happens under...
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Getting a Scholarly Monograph Published
Having published my first book, with calls for a sequel of case studies … I would like to get my PhD turned into a book this year (10 years aftetr I finished the PhD), so this guidance may be helpful:...
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The Scholarly-ness of Sources
Interesting piece in this week’s Times Higher Education. I certainly use a range of sources in my writing, but then my recent book Raising Children in a Digital Age does not count for the REF, as it’s...
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Valuing Staff in Academia
Having commented on the suggestion that 9 month contracts could be introduced in the UK, there’s another piece which suggests that universities must value their staff on more than their research...
View ArticleA student’s lecture to professors (via @timeshighered)
This looks like it could be worth a read – a student tells his lecturers what they should do with their lectures in order to ‘allow learning’: The question “Why Continue Reading →
View ArticleGroup Work: Not Pulling Your Weight?
I’m really interested in group dynamics (see mini project undertaken as part of PGCLTHE), so an interesting case study here: “Academically ambitious students contribute to moving the average up –...
View ArticleValue in a PhD?
An interesting piece on the ‘value’ and employability of a PhD Who would do a PhD? Who would willingly submit to spending endless hours, over three or four years, in Continue Reading →
View ArticleSummer Fruitfulness in Academia?
Great piece on the joys of academic pressure: It’s not true, of course, that September is entirely grim. Being back at work means colliding with cheery colleagues in the corridor, Continue Reading →
View ArticleSpeaking Up Required in Higher Education…
A really interesting piece about the place of ‘introverts’ in higher education where action learning means not speaking up is no longer an option: However, university students are no longer allowed to...
View ArticleWhat is ‘Intellectual Cowardice’?
Always interesting to read from those who are public about their ‘fears’ – once fears have been named, they can be faced, right? Anxiety about being a fraud does seem Continue Reading →
View ArticleRudeness in Academia?
It’s definitely there! Is it really required? I am not really interested in working with people who focus on criticism over critique, a core difference in attitude: And this, in Continue Reading →
View ArticleMOOCs are damaging Mentoring?
Having spent a significant chunk of today talking about mentoring, an interesting piece to come across in Times Higher Ed: I have spent nearly my whole life, since kindergarten in 1956, Continue Reading →
View ArticleLectures Still of Value?
Really interested in the debates about teaching styles, especially re: lectures: By the 1970s, educational scholar Donald Bligh had written one of the first comprehensive reviews of the research...
View ArticleThe Power of Words (@timeshighered)
This is an interesting piece on the power of words: It is only an imaginative use of language that allows for the emergence of new ideas and a new understanding Continue Reading →
View Article“I shouldn’t really be here” says @timeshighered
Been thinking about ‘Imposter Syndrome’ etc a lot recently, so here’s an interesting story from Times Higher Education about so many academics feeling like frauds: On a recent train commute to Continue...
View Article#TimetoTalk with Historian Barbara Taylor
In the Times Higher Education today there’s an interview with Barbara Taylor, a historian who is the subject of The Last Asylum. “By the time Eve was published in 1983,” she recalls when we meet...
View ArticleTimes Higher: Is there still a place for lectures?
The end of this piece made me laugh: Not that lecturers themselves are necessarily so wedded to such high-minded considerations. One extremely distinguished English literature professor habitually...
View ArticleCreating ‘Networking Buzz’
Enjoyed this piece, as I’m always looking for ways to connect people up and make the most of that knowledge – let’s stop reinventing the wheel, and put our heads Continue Reading →
View ArticlePhD: Has the quality dropped? If so, who’s “to blame”?
This is rather concerning (but not particularly surprising, as we’ve heard all those complaints about GCSE, A-Level, degree level standards dropping, etc.) re PhD doctorates. Really, by the time you...
View ArticleA call for Interdisciplinarity
Having had a role promoting interdisciplinarity, and taken a job where I can be part of a team within an academic context – an interesting argument for more working together Continue Reading →
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