I have co-written a Commentary piece for the new journal Postdigital Science & Education (Springer) entitled Lies, bullshit & fake news online: Some epistemological concerns (see link). The article is a brief commentary on some ideas that my co-writer Alison MacKenzie and I have been discussing in relation […]
Something for your diaries! I am pleased to announce the following as just some of the TESOL & Language Education seminars to be held at Queen’s University Belfast in the coming months. Each of these seminars will also be promoted on the QUB School of SSESW webpages but […]
Here are the slides to a guest talk delivered at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at Edinburgh University on the theme ‘Just Google it! Digital Literacy & epistemologies of ignorance’: A version of the same talk was delivered at a symposium in the annual conference of […]
I am pleased to have published a new paper, to appear in a Special Issue of Teaching in Higher Education. The Special Issue is entitled Experts, knowledge and criticality in the age of ‘alternative facts’: re-examining the contribution of higher education and will be available on the journal’s website […]
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 to my paper at the EATAW (the European Association of Teaching Academic Writing) Conference at Royal Holloway University (London, UK): The talk was basically an overview of the key issues in my recent book ‘Assignments as Controversies’, published by Routledge/T&F. I talked about novel approaches […]
I am delighted to have visited the University of Leeds today, to deliver a keynote for the student-led ‘Resonances’ conference. Here are my slides for the day:
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