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…
Hybrid teaching and student poverty in the 22/23 academic year
Mark Carrigan Earlier in the summer David Hitchcock circulated an important guide about student poverty, offering advice about the coming socioeconomic crisis and what it means for students. With the possibility that inflation could hit 20% in Britain by January, it’s likely that poverty will become widespread amongst the student population. Not simply in the relative sense of…
Does Big Tech have too much power in the post-pandemic university?
During the pandemic platforms like Zoom and Teams became central to the core operations of the university, enabling teaching and research to continue in the absence of face-to-face interaction. The radical change involved in what has been called the online pivot built upon a much longer term process of growing reliance upon digital infrastructure across…
Academics should embrace Lo-Fi podcasting
Mark Carrigan I produced my first podcast over a decade ago. It was an interview with political sociologist Colin Crouch about his concept of Post-Democracy. The resulting conversation was high in intellectual content, low in production values, but I was so enthused by what I’d just made that this limitation didn’t occur to me. It…
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