News and Updates

This was Engles' verdict on William Morris, and the quote was prominently displayed in the house where he lived as a teenager, and which I visited recently.  It's now the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, and makes for a fine day...

... for recuperation and rejuvenation.

I'm not going to EERA-ECER in Dublin which starts next week.  It would have been good to see so many familiar faces, but I no longer appreciate sitting around all day (for several days) listening to people read their papers....

There was the usual excitement at this year’s NUS National Conference.  It passed an amendment to Motion 201 in the Education Zone debate calling on NUS to determine the most effective strategy to either boycott or sabotage the 2017 National Student...

The latest edition of NERC's Planet Earth magazine contained a breathless feature on a partnership between M&S and NERC to create "a more sustainable global food system".  You can read all about this here. Carmel McQuaid, who sounds as if she...

Rumour has it that WEEC is looking for an outfit in the UK to host a forthcoming conference – only organisations with the requisite quotient of gullibility and desperation need apply. I'm reminded of what Richard Ingrams said when Mrs Thatcher...

I started off the week noting that I was in thrall to the astonishing John Lilburne.  Another hero, albeit of a very different kind, is Henry Wilt.  Now, it's difficult being in the Fens and not to think of Wilt, that...

I think that PhD development courses have to be tricky things to structure for a number of reasons; foremost, perhaps, is the wide-ranging experiences that participants bring: from the novice setting out, for example, to someone well through the research and...

In commenting on my post on Monday, Alan Red reminded me of my pragmatic approach to issues of research, and of something I'd written in 1999 for Educational Studies: Environmental Education: Arguing the case for multiple approaches This paper develops existing arguments...

Wednesday in Cambridge began with a focus on epistemology in the capable hands of Leif Östman.  Most gratifyingly, he began in the 1600s with the scientific revolution when nature as object and humans as subject first emerged and we conceptualised the mind. There...