Blog What does it mean to be an academic leader? 9 Jun 20226 Nov 2022 By Mark Carrigan I’ve been thinking about this question a lot over the last few days. I returned to Cambridge at the weekend to attend farewell events for Susan Robertson…
Blog… ‘Academic Fantasies’, ‘Lines of Interiority’ and the Rituals of Student Politics 17 May 20225 Nov 2022 Image Source: Kate Kasiutich for Unsplash.com By Lakshmi Bose, Jo-Anne Dillabough, Elizabeth Maber The landscape of Hungarian Higher Education (HE) over the last decade represents a battlescape over populist ideals…
Blog… Schoolhouse Rot: Critical Race Theory and the US’ Decaying Democracy 4 May 20225 Nov 2022 Image Source: Jeswin Thomas for Unsplash.com By Gabe Abdellatif Critical Race Theory, or at least what conservatives have defined as critical race theory, has dominated the popular discourse on public…
Blog Critical Social Theory Workshop: Violent Modernities, Political ‘Crises’ and the ‘Politics of Freedom’ 1 May 202212 Nov 2022 Event: Wednesday May 11th, 4:30 to 6 pm, followed by drinksCapturing spaces on the move: Modernity’s mobile materialities of political reordering in Israel-Palestine and beyond GS4 , The Donald McIntyre Building…
Blog Turning Red and social theory: contextual incongruity, emotions, and media  22 Apr 2022 Image Source: Max Cortez for Unsplash.com By Sebastián Ansaldo The latest Pixar film, Turning Red, has caused an interesting discussion regarding issues of representation, character identification, portrait of adolescent life,…
Blog Going on Strike from the Internet: A Plea for Disconnection 18 Apr 2022 Image Source: Jonathan Kemper for Unsplash.com By Mark Carrigan I spent the first two days of the recent strike disconnected from the internet. I unplugged my router and let my…
Blog Chalk & cheese, or complementary flavours? Can Latour’s Actor Network Theory & Archer’s Theory of Agency (Archer, 2003) help us understand learner’s experiences in a post pandemic world? 7 Apr 2022 Image Source: Tim Gouw for Unsplash.com By Maeve O'Regan What’s it like to learn at a geographical, physical and social distance from the academic campus environment when you haven’t signed…
Blog Transforming Oppressive Structures 3 Mar 20224 Mar 2022 By Oudai Tozan Image Source: Cody Pulliam for Unsplash.com Transforming oppressive structures is one of the most complicated but important undertakings for us. It is a topic that captures my…
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