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 […]
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 […]
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 SRHE event on ‘Academics in the Digital University’ at Queen’s University Belfast
I am pleased to be organising a one-day seminar hosted by Queen’s University Belfast, and supported by the Society for Research into Higher Education. Venue: Great Hall, Lanyon Building, Queen’s University Belfast, University Road, Belfast, BT7 1NN This one-day event is a space for dialogue on social justice, […]
Lectureship I am now a year into a lectureship at Queen’s University Belfast. This role has meant that I have not had the time to write updates on this blog as I have been busy focussing on a new location and new institution. The change and new role […]
The following are the slides for a paper I delivered today at the Annual Conference for the SRHE (the Society for Research into Higher Education) The whole paper is available via the following link: Click to access 0163.pdf
