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An Invitation At a time of mounting social and environmental crises, it becomes imperative for educators to reflect and reconsider the aims and purposes of education. Beyond its immediate functions to serve pre-established expectations or providing formal training in a competitive market, we consider education as a relational practice and a place of encounter within […]
On 11 September 2025 Nick Daniels, Mel Batcharj and I attended the UCISA User Experience (UX) Community Day 2025 – organised by Emma Horrell and the UCISA committee. In this blog we share our reflections from the day. Sep 19, 2025

Joseph shares his journey as a Martingale Scholar and how the scholarship has helped him grow both academically and personally, as well as his tips for any future Scholars.
14.00-15.00 BST – Zoom Webinar (Register via Eventbrite here) Historic Water Supply Landscapes in the Metropolitan Territory of Malaga, Spain Dr Celia López-Bravo Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Art and Architecture University of Málaga Jointly organised with Cultural Heritage at the Metropolitan Peripheries – CUMET project https://cumet.hypotheses.org/ Malaga […]
This blog was contributed to the University’s ‘Student Stories’ blog by Carl, a postgraduate online learner. Many thanks to Student Stories for allowing us to republish here. Moving to online learning was quite a change for me after being used to my previous routine of in-person classes. At first, it felt strange not making the […]

In this extra post, Shahrzad Shariatpanahi shares her findings and recommendations from a scoping project designed to find out what works, and doesn’t work in postgraduate researcher communication. Shahrzad is a Biomedical Engineering PhD researcher and recently completed PGR Communications and Engagement Internship with the Institute for Academic Development. As a postgraduate researcher (PGR) at […]