{"id":5311,"date":"2014-01-03T10:29:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T10:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=5311"},"modified":"2014-01-03T10:29:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T10:29:38","slug":"walter-walter-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/01\/03\/walter-walter-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter, Walter everywhere ..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am pleased to ssee that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sste.mmu.ac.uk\/staff\/staffbiog\/default.asp?StaffID=1130\">Walter Leal<\/a> is settled back working in the country, and as busy as ever. \u00a0Although, I know that WL has his critics, his UK re-entry is surely very welcome, and especially at a time when life was in danger of losing its satirical cutting edge. \u00a0Huzzars, then, to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sste.mmu.ac.uk\">Manchester Metropolitan University<\/a> for this bold move to bolster their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ref.ac.uk\">REF<\/a> ratings.<\/p>\n<p>When I first met Walter \u2013 it just after he had risen to prominence with a stand-out presentation on the <strong><em>Conference on the Boat<\/em><\/strong> (now part of ESD folklore) \u2013 he was called <em>Walter Leal Filho<\/em>, and I am still uncertain when he was de-filhoed (or, indeed, why). \u00a0In fact he was still Filho back in 2012 when he gave this GUNI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guninetwork.org\/resources\/guni.talks\/walter-leal-filho\">talk<\/a> which, if you are new to all things Walter,\u00a0is an admirable introduction to his scholarly insights. \u00a0As someone who has so much to offer, one thing seems certain, if he and the QAA ever get together, ESD in the UK will never be the same again.<\/p>\n<p>A very happy 2014 indeed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am pleased to ssee that Walter Leal is settled back working in the country, and as busy as ever. \u00a0Although, I know that WL has his critics, his UK re-entry is surely very welcome, and especially at a time...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}