Teaching and learning with context collapse
What scares me in learning? I might be called upon by the teacher and not have an answer, or not…
Where does the mental structure of the PhD live
User interface design is fascinating to me because of what it reveals about what the designer thinks of the user…
What’s your contribution to knowledge? Go on I’m waiting…
‘Use the weapon’ (‘Arrival’, Villeneuve 2016) What is a PhD? PhDs are defined by their original contribution to knowledge. In…
Front and backstage teaching
There has always been a theatrical, stagey element to lecturing. That is sometimes literally apparent. We teach in lecture theatres….
What is up with the balaclavas guys?
Lovely discussion with students in my not-quite criminology classes about imagery of crime using Europol’s SOCTA 2017. The report crisply…
Research design, what even is that?
… structured, rigorous curiosity Also guess who’s convening the Research Design course come the semester start. A challenge in teaching…
I know you don’t want to talk about ontology so I plan to make you
Ontology and epistemology are two dimensions of research that are easily despatched in a sentence yet which give every research…
Questions about reading which are really about you, the reader, but are also about me, the writer
The kind of reading you do matters a lot to the kind of scholarship you are doing. The classic image…
Software for the gravid researcher
Everyone develops their own set of software tools over time. There are lots of handy specialist software programmes out there….
Is it a university building or an unethical experiment in social psychology? Why not both?
Visiting the art college and the Informatics school reminds me how uncreative most academic buildings and arrangements are. Many bear…
