Special issue: call for papers
Special issue: call for papers Critical perspectives on teaching in the multilingual university (co-editors: Ibrar Bhatt, Mbulungeni Madiba and Khawla Badwan)
Editorial changes at the journal
I am excited to have been appointed as a new Executive Editor for the T&F journal ‘Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives’. I have an interesting special issue idea which I hope to share with you very soon.
Zhang Chengzhi
I am very slowly, line-by-line, working through, and trying to get a handle on, work by Zhang Chengzhi (张承志), a prominent and outspoken Chinese-Muslim intellectual. Little or none of his work is available in English, but he remains an important voice to be accessed in terms of understanding […]
Two books on the origins of universities
I read two interesting books this Summer: George Makdisi’s Rise of Colleges and W. Montgomery Watt’s Influence of Islam on Medieval Europe. Both books contain authoritative accounts about how the scholastic method of inquiry, and most elements of the academic system (but not its organisational system) in the […]
Plenary panel at SRHE conference 2019 on ‘Preparing critical students for the post-truth era’
This is an online recording of the plenary panel that I was a part of the the Annual Conference of the Society for Research into Higher Education. The keynote panel was on ‘Preparing critical students for the post-truth era – key research questions’ and featured Neil Harrison (University […]
A recent event on ‘Academics in the Digital University’
A recent SRHE event on ‘Academics in the Digital University’ at Queen’s University Belfast
The Digital University, Social Justice and the ‘public good’
Reflection on a recent event I organised at Queen’s University Belfast
