Very many congratulations to Maisa Obeid who successfully defended her thesis yesterday. She completed a #PhDinTEL and was supervised by Don Passey. Many thanks to the Examiners Melis Cin & Simon Hayhoe. CTEL:Lancaster lancaster.ac.uk/educational-re…

Seminar tomorrow - still time to sign up 👇

Looking forward to this. I get to talk about Adorno and Honneth and educational research - all the interesting stuff!

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In May, (The) Puiyin Wong 👑🇭🇰😸 https://puiyin.org/ & John Brindle & their village inc Tamsyn Smith James Allen Brett Bligh Philip Moffitt Kathy Chandler Katy Jordan will share their stories of doctoral reseach CTEL:Lancaster Educational Research. #TELresearchers #HEresearchers Come join us: bit.ly/CTEL0524

Gwenda, Gwenda Mynott, wrote a great PhD thesis and gave a brilliant account of it in her viva (I was the internal examiner). So I am really looking forward to this seminar.

I am looking forward to contributing to this conference.

#ACRE2024
Announcing our first keynote, Professor Paul Ashwin Paul Ashwin
will be asking us 'What are we educating students for?'

Booking is now open for ACRE, and FoE staff, students and our partners join us free.
Find out more and book: ehu.ac.uk/acre24shop

🚨Want to study MA Education and Social Justice - part-time and fully #online ?!

Join Jonathan Vincent from Educational Research for an online applicant webinar this Thursday 25th April at 6pm via Zoom🗓️

Link 👉: t.ly/H-r4w

Really looking forward to this (online) seminar on 1 May by Gwenda Mynott. All welcome Educational Research CHERE@LU

New report on digitalisation and datafication of UK universities and the #EdTech industry with findings from the Universities and Unicorns project. It’s aimed at HE and EdTech stakeholders and policymakers. With Morten Hansen, Sam Sellar and Kean Birch. t.ly/S_mrL

Very many congratulations to Celeste McLaughlin who successfully defended her thesis yesterday. She completed a #PhDinHEREE and was supervised by murray saunders. Many thanks to the Examiners Paul Trowler and Lucila Carvalho. @CHERELancaster lancaster.ac.uk/educational-re…

Our latest OA paper (with Carmen, Mikateko Mathebula, and Faith Mkwananzi) breaks academic writing norms, opting for critical conversationalism to explore the complexities of participatory research. We each challenge and expand on one another's ideas: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

HE institutions face enough challenges from an increasingly sceptical society without engaging in divisive & meaningless competition, which undermines their integrity and trustworthiness, and is solely for the benefit of those who produce commercial university rankings 10/10

Once the spell of commercial university rankings is broken, we will wonder why universities ever participated so greedily in this deceitful practice that misleads prospective students, funding bodies, governments, and employers 9/10

As life was happening, this methodological piece on elite interviews in politically fragile contexts came out some time ago, drawing on our experiences and reflections on conducting such interviews. Interested in a copy? Get in touch with me - methods.sagepub.com/case/negotiati…

Academics need to stop completing hollow reputation surveys. University leadership teams & governing bodies need to urgently reflect on the grave harm that continuing to play the zero-sum rankings game is doing – both to themselves and the long-term credibility of the sector 8/10

There are the makings of a movement against commercial uni rankings. However, this movement needs to be focused on promoting ‘Quality Not Rankings’, making it clear that the latter provides no meaningful measure of the former 7/10

We are in a crazy position where, to meet their DORA commitments, unis make strong promises not to use any metric without being explicit about its limitations on one part of their website, whilst, on another, they unreservedly boast about their ranking performance 6/10

‘Any form of university education that claims its quality is demonstrated through commercial university rankings has been mis-sold.’
Great piece from Paul Ashwin and Derek Heim, resonating with some of our emergent results on young women's uni experiences
wonkhe.com/blogs/rank-hyp…