Democratic university governance
Universities for a Democratic Society (Part IV) Report from Future U: Creating the Universities We Want A conference of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations 27–28 February 2014...
View ArticleHigher Education for a Democratic Society (Part I)
Report from Future U: Creating the Universities We Want A conference of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations 27–28 February 2014 #futureu In England, there is considerable...
View Article‘For feminist consciousness in the academy’
‘For feminist consciousness in the academy’ My new piece in a special issue of Politics and Culture, Materialist Feminisms against Neoliberalism. ‘Ironically, it may be precisely because critical...
View ArticleWhy schools are not like businesses (and how governors can protect them for...
In November 2014, school governors across England received news about a new campaign – ‘Make Schools Your Business’ – to place more people with business skills on governing bodies. It is one of a...
View ArticleAlternative ways of thinking the university (UNIKE conference)
In February, I presented one of several papers on ‘Alternative ways of thinking the university’ at a conference on Universities in the Knowledge Economy (UNIKE). I was joined by Joss Winn, also from...
View ArticleCSE Midlands launch event: What is to be done in the age of austerity and...
I will be speaking about placing higher education in the service of social justice at this exciting event in April… CSE* Midlands launch event: What is to be done in the age of austerity and autonomy?...
View ArticleEducation Should Not Be Run for Profit
Published in Reclaiming Schools: The Arguments and the Evidence (March 2015) Full text Late last year, UK Education secretary Nicky Morgan made waves through schools by declaring that while she was...
View ArticleEducation without borders
Two years ago, I wrote a blog post on the borders of education – the increasing use of state power to control international movement in and through universities in England. I was concerned with the...
View ArticleNew book – The Education of Radical Democracy
I am delighted to annouce the publication of my new book, The Education of Radical Democracy. It explores why I think radical democracy is so necessary, difficult, and possible today – and why it is...
View ArticlePractices of possibility in neoliberal social systems
2015–16 Independent Social Research Foundation Mid-Career Fellowship Following is a brief summary of the research I will be undertaking this year. To read the full version of the proposal, visit the...
View ArticleThe passion of despair
In the first chapter of The Highway of Despair: Critical Theory after Hegel (2015), Robyn Marasco opens up a whole new field of possibility, or ways of thinking it — through despair. ‘Against a...
View ArticleBuilding the co-operative university
Exciting developments in the project to conceptualise and lay foundations for the co-operative university PAPER: ‘Beyond public and private: a framework for co-operative higher education’ (Joss Winn...
View ArticleImperialist, white-supremacist, capitalist patriarchy? No kidding.
This post began as a reflection on why the term ‘imperialist-white-supremacist-capitalist-patriarchy’ isn’t funny. I attended a conference session on gender violence and inequality in universities in...
View ArticleRemarkable ‘Foucault and Education’ readings
Bibliography of works on Foucault and Education I don’t think I’ve seen anything like this before… 50+ pages of references to works on education through many different Foucauldian lenses… Image: Thomas...
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