Friday, 03 April 2020, 11am-5pm in London, UK Register online here: https://www.srhe.ac.uk/events/details.asp?eid=456 There is widespread agreement that universities are undergoing a profound transformation but much less agreement on what these changes mean and how we should characterise them. The Digital University Network has stressed the role of new technologies in transforming practice within the university. … Continue reading The Transformation of Higher Education: Acceleration, Platformisation and Digitalisation
Our new MPhil programme: Knowledge, Power and Politics in Education
Following a successful launch at the Faculty’s post-graduate open day, applications are currently being received for the Faculty’s new full-time MPhil route in Knowledge, Power and Politics in Education. The course presents an exciting new offering in the Faculty MPhil programme, drawing on an interdisciplinary approach to examine the dynamics shaping knowledge formation in formal, … Continue reading Our new MPhil programme: Knowledge, Power and Politics in Education
The Platform University 2, March 10th-11th 2020
10 - 11 March 2020 Lancaster University Unfortunately, we have to cancel this event for a second time because it clashes with the next UCU strike action. This event won't be rescheduled and we have left this post here for reference. Higher education is increasingly ‘platformised’. Indeed, digital platforms have become ubiquitous. They are dominant … Continue reading The Platform University 2, March 10th-11th 2020
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The Social Media and Education Study Group
Two billion Facebook users, 1.5 billion YouTube users, 800 million Instagram users. On a single day we produce 525 million tweets, upload 54 million photos, and watch five billion videos. The scale and ubiquity of social media presents education with opportunities and challenges raising urgent questions of theory, methods and practice. We are proposing an … Continue reading The Social Media and Education Study Group
Entering the Next Decade of Youth Literature and Beyond
The Race, Empire and Education (REE) Collective at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Education, in association with Researchers Exploring Inclusive Youth Literature (REIYL), invite you to attend an event with author, editor, and poet Kwame Alexander (see attached poster). On the 28th of February, Mr. Alexander will be presenting, “Entering the Next Decade of Youth Literature … Continue reading Entering the Next Decade of Youth Literature and Beyond
A Cultural Political Economy account of Higher Education in Mercosur
By Aliandra Lazzari Barlete CPGJ’s Aliandra Barlete received the Best Dissertation Award by the CIES’s Higher Education Special Interest Group for her PhD thesis titles ‘A Cultural Political Account of Higher Education in Mercosur’. Below we share the thesis’s prologue. It was a cold day in June 2016 in Montevideo. I sat alone outside the … Continue reading A Cultural Political Economy account of Higher Education in Mercosur
The Public Sociologist in Authoritarian Times: Negotiating Risk and Complicity
Lakshmi Sagarika Bose at the Wolfson Education Society Wolfson College Chancellors Centre Syndicate room 2, 17:45-19:00 (refreshments from 17:30) The confluence of rising authoritarianism and constricting levels of academic freedom highlight the necessity of contending with emerging questions on the political role of the academic in the face of widespread illiberal trends. Increasing arrests and … Continue reading The Public Sociologist in Authoritarian Times: Negotiating Risk and Complicity
