The Morphogenetic Approach: Celebrating Margaret Archer’s Legacy – June 27th, 1pm to 6pm
Margaret Archer made a remarkable contribution to social theory, critical realism and social ontology over the course of a long career. In this event we will bring together people who worked with her and have been influenced by her work to celebrate this intellectual legacy. The afternoon event will consist of a number of panels,…
CfP: Social media in Higher Education: What’s happening?
JIME special collection – call for papers The Twitter interface famously prompts users to submit content by asking the question, ‘What’s happening?’. Given the recent turmoil surrounding the platform, it is a timely question to reflect back on itself, and social media more broadly. While the relationship between social media and higher education is far…
Generative AI and the Future of the University: Three Events at the University of Manchester
May 10th, 17th and 24th – 3pm to 5pm at the University of Manchester Since it was launched in November 2022, Open AI’s ChatGPT has enthralled millions with its uncanny ability to respond to queries in a conversational manner. Its capacity to immediately respond to natural language questions with detailed factual knowledge has sparked debate…
Retiring the Post-Pandemic University project
For a number of reasons we have decided to retire the Post-Pandemic University project. Over a two and a half year period we published 235 posts from contributors around the world, organised two large online conferences and ran a podcast series on methodological adaptations to lockdown. The site will be kept online as an archival…
Digital Scholarship After Covid-19
Mark Carrigan This talk will discuss how the university has changed over the last two years, as well as which of these changes are likely to remain. We can’t expect that the university will snap back to pre-pandemic normality, particularly with regards to the central role that digital platforms now play in academic life. If…
Are you looking for a teaching role in digital education?
Are you looking for a teaching role in digital education? The Manchester Institute for Education is hiring three Senior Tutors to support a range of programmes, one of which is the MA Digital Technologies, Communication and Education. This is a rapidly growing area of the department with a recently launched research group and a range…
Disrupting the post-pandemic university: an audio experiment
By Milan Stürmer and Mark Carrigan It has been widely observed that the pandemic led to an enforced digitalisation in higher education. Familiar modes of interaction like meetings, seminars and conferences came to feel strange to most as mediation through video conferencing platforms like Zoom became the norm. Reflection on this phenomenon tends to imply…
Critical Education Leadership and Policy (CELP) Conference on 5th and 6th October 2022
The CELP Conference is hosted by the Critical Education Leadership and Policy research group from the Manchester Institute of Education (MIE), University of Manchester. As a research group, CELP undertakes policy scholarship that explores education leadership as a site where policy is enacted, power relations exerted, and professional identities and practices are suggested and inhibited.…
When it ends
Jana Bacevic In the summer of 2018, I came back to Cambridge from one of my travels to a yellowed, dusty patch of land. The grass – the only thing that grew in the too shady back garden of the house me and my partner were renting – had not only wilted; it had literally…
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