I believe the one of the biggest challenges we have faced has been what I would define as structure, and I think our experience with it is one of the most important things we can share with those who make the course in the future. I have tried to be …
Over the last couple of months, I helped facilitate an investigation for The Student into the working conditions of tutors. Though the eventual article included responses to questions that we asked about pay, hours worked for preparation and general working conditions, I also asked tutors questions about the mental health …
So this is it, the end of this year in the Future of Our University course. I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to participate in this course from its idea to its realisation and to have shared this experience with all these great people. I would have …
In this reflection piece, I study human organisations from a system thinking perspective. More precisely, I explore the system we set together to organise ourselves in this course and the place we took in the whole institutional system that is the university. The idea of human organisation was central to …
How do we learn without reading? Can we? I’m torn (productively!) by holding simultaneously contradictory perspectives on the question of reading and its place in the course this year; so I think it would be a useful question to start my reflection with this theme. My immediate reaction is that …
I made this card to say thank you. Thank you to everyone who participated and engaged in such a wonderful project which I was ever so excited about from the first moment it was suggested over a year ago. I would like to contextualise this gratitude, for fear of it …
When trying to think about what I wanted to focus on in my reflection my mind kept going back to the discussion we had a few weeks ago about these reflections. In particular, I remember that there was general agreement that we should focus on what we felt were the …
Groups as gardens In the workshop run by the permaculture research group, we spoke about applying principles of permaculture to group dynamics, and how, within this, it can help to compare groups to gardens. I found this a very powerful analogy, and for this reason I have chosen to …
For the final session of a seven-month-long journey together, the group had asked people to prepare five-minute activities. I wanted to bring my excitement about Kristin Ross’s book Communal luxury: the political imaginary of the Paris Commune to the group, and brought along printed copies of an interview with the …
For my reflection on the first semester of this course, I wrote a short essay about my personal experiences related to education, mainly comparing Korean and British education system. For my reflection on this semester, I also wrote a short essay, but this time I specifically focused on exploring the …
