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Parallel tracks? (Higher) education for employability and intellectual...
Updated: I enjoyed speaking today about the Wilson Review alongside Trudy Norris-Grey at the Westminster Briefing event on graduate employability. One interesting question from the floor followed up...
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Humanities and sciences: making common cause
In September, the first cohort of Master’s students in environmental sciences and humanities will be starting at the University of East Anglia. According to Mike Hulme, Professor of climate change at...
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Does a great piece of history writing have to address itself to one...
I just wanted to reblog a interesting piece on the Guardian Higher Education Network that takes on the academic/public history divide. John Gallagher argues that history can be both popular and...
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Questioning academics
Reblogged from through the looking glass: A table at the Science Museum's Dana Centre coffee shop. No, I don't know what it means either. The latest episode of Brain Train is up - the podcast I work...
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‘Science’ and ‘arts’: should we play in each other’s fields a bit more?
I find science and maths a real draw. I often listen to The Life Scientific, Material World and More or Less podcasts ahead of more predictable favourites Making History, The Long View and History...
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Policy advisers: out of the top corridor and into the classroom?
The university policy adviser is now a fixture in higher education. At least, there are enough of us that we’re now getting organised. There’s a large Political Affairs Network under the auspices of...
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(Teaching) history in the news
I had an interesting exchange with Robert Gordon VC, prolific Tweeter and blogger, Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski, over a post he put up about students’ apparent lack of awareness of a major news...
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The PhD viva: the five things that made a difference, part II
Back in April I posted shortly after submitting my PhD thesis on the five things that made a difference to me in getting it done. The viva seemed a distant prospect. Maybe you have to invest so much...
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Exploring why vs. defining what: public history at the 2015 ICHS Congress
Together with former AHA Executive Director, Arnita Jones, I’m convening a roundtable on public history at the 2015 Congress in Jinan, China. Initially we were asked to tackle the topic of ‘what is...
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Connecting research and teaching
One of the academic stereotypes often bandied around is that we only have eyes for our own research – teaching is an irritating and burdensome responsibility. While there may be some out there with...
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Heritage and Business in Partnership: the power of the anniversary
John Lewis’ 150th anniversary is in full swing. Products with designs inspired by and recovered from the amazing archives now held at the Heritage Centre in Odney are everywhere. I was lucky enough...
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The Humanities, the public intellectual and human flourishing | Arts and...
‘Something needs to be done – urgently. We are agreed – right? But what?‘ stands the heading introducing a recent issue of the journal Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. We are given a peak at...
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Reclaiming Relevance from the Dark Side – Public History Weekly – The...
My latest contribution to Public History Weekly, a playful (and rather tenuous) appropriation of Star Wars metaphors to make a point about the tendency to create artificial and insidious binaries:...
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My latest blog for Public History Weekly was inspired by meeting around 30 Essex applicants for group interviews earlier this year, all with their own reasons for wanting to study history and a truly...
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