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The Open University is seeking a partnership to co.deliver a seminar series on all aspects of Pedagogic Research, Scholarship and Innivation. Let me know if this appeals. @Welspraxis.bsky.social

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Let them drink bleach. #MAGA

Upcoming event Leadership in a Time of Monsters: Responding to Contemporary Challenges 7 Oct 2025 Register here: bera.ac.uk/event/leader...

Print or Digital: that is the question! New blog post on PGR Bloggers by Dr Lesley Fearn: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/welspg... * Which matters most - convenience with depth? * Does the digital disrupt reading for pleasure? Have you embraced, or rejected the Ebook? Photo by Lesly Juarez on Unsplash

Print or Digital: that is the question! New blog post on PGR Bloggers by Dr Lesley Fearn: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/welspg... * Which matters most - convenience with depth? * Does the digital disrupt reading for pleasure? Have you embraced, or rejected the Ebook? Photo by Lesly Juarez on Unsplash

The Nigel Farage who wrote this about Charlie Kirk's murder will be furious at the Nigel Farage who made Lucy Connolly a star of the Reform conference

The next scholarship seminar in our series with Gothenburg University will discuss 'Teacher professionalism and teacher professional development'. It takes place on Wed 24th Sept from 14:00 - 15:30 on Teams. If you would like to attend, let us know in the replies to receive the Teams link.

Upcoming event Leadership in a Time of Monsters: Responding to Contemporary Challenges 7 Oct 2025 Register here: bera.ac.uk/event/leader...

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Attending #BERA2025 in Brighton. Join myself and @azumahcarol.bsky.social at the SIG Ed. Leadership meeting on 9.9.25. Tell us what you would like the SIG to offer. Find out about an edited collection #Emerald and ‘In a time of Monsters' SIG event. @educationuom.bsky.social

Looking forward to #BERA2025 in Brighton. Join us for our presentation “Joining the game of school governance: parents’ accounts of school governance in a professionalised context” Help us think about how policy could redefine the ‘game’ @celp-uom.bsky.social @azumahcarol.bsky.social

@beranews.bsky.social @markrpriestley.bsky.social @cpaucl.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social @welspraxis.bsky.social @kathyhibbert.bsky.social @kathymchandler.bsky.social Your ideas are welcome.

Reviewer 2: Your paper is a square. Squares are bad. Turn it into a circle. Me: painstaking revisions to turn that square into a circle. R2: Your paper is now a circle. I don't like circles. It is lacking sides and corners. Turn it into a rectangle. Me: 🤯🤬 #PeerReview #AcademicSky

📌 So ready for women to govern our nation going forward • Who's with me ⁉️ 🐥

BERA @BERANews Upcoming event Leadership in a Time of Monsters: Responding to Contemporary Challenges @azumahcarol 7 Oct 2025 Register here: bera.ac.uk/event/leader...

BERA @BERANews Upcoming event Leadership in a Time of Monsters: Responding to Contemporary Challenges @azumahcarol 7 Oct 2025 Register here: bera.ac.uk/event/leader...

How STRONG is your vocabulary? www.merriam-webster.com/games/vocabu...

📌 Hope this soul follows him everywhere . A true hero 🐥

Would you like to guest edit an issue of the BERA Curriculum Journal - we'd welcome your ideas. Especially ideas that fit our vison of a curriculum driven by: a commitment to the ethical imagination, decolonization and anti-racist pedagogies bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

To call these people Nazi is to pay them a compliment. They are worse than disgusting.

@beranews.bsky.social @markrpriestley.bsky.social @cpaucl.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social @welspraxis.bsky.social @kathyhibbert.bsky.social @kathymchandler.bsky.social Your ideas are welcome.

Would you like to guest edit an issue of the BERA Curriculum Journal - we'd welcome your ideas. Especially ideas that fit our vison of a curriculum driven by: a commitment to the ethical imagination, decolonization and anti-racist pedagogies bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

#TheArchers I know bullying is evil. But I like the fictional character Chelsea and I think bullying is exactly what Amber needs.

#TheArchers Chelsea is exactly what Amber needs. She will save the day.

This has got to STOP : A man in Scotland has just been charged with terror offences by Police Scotland — for wearing a pro‑Palestine Action T-shirt. At a festival. This isn’t about public safety. It’s about silencing people who speak out against genocide. Scotland's police are disgraceful.

Uocoming event by BERA educational leadership SIG Leadership in a Time of Monsters: Responding to Contemporary Challenges Link for sign up and details www.bera.ac.uk/event/leader...

We’re thrilled to share that a paper co-authored by our Director of Praxis, Carol Azumah Dennis, has won the HERDSA Routledge Article of the Year Award 2024! Find out more on our website. @azumahcarol.bsky.social @openuniversity.bsky.social university.open.ac.uk/scholarship-...

Oh, so did Amber apologise to grandpa? I must have missed that bit. #TheArchers

Uocoming event by BERA educational leadership SIG Leadership in a Time of Monsters: Responding to Contemporary Challenges Link for sign up and details www.bera.ac.uk/event/leader...

Dennis, Aubrey-Smith, Alvarez, Waterhouse & Ferguson (2024) Professional doctorates reconciling academic and professional knowledge: towards a diffractive re-reading, Higher Education Research & Development, 43:7, 1525-1539 Open Access and very readable: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Peter Hain says anti-apartheid campaigners would have been treated as terrorists under logic used to ban Palestine Action www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Whatever your views of Starmer personally, and I admit mine are below bedrock low, by spending so much energy on truly hideous policies designed to chase Reform and strip marginalised groups of rights and support, Labour has had a complete cluster of a first year. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Mapping ecologies of practice: a framework for reflective teaching and academic development in higher education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fuck that guy, eternally. Link within to Lila Shapiro's definitive @nymag.com piece. Using this link because some folks might not be aware that NG is **suing** one of the survivors of his alleged abuse. something something "ally" something something "feminism" www.vulture.com/article/neil...

She going to frame him for crime the minute he gets out. Poor George, got kissed by a girl and he's going to cry. #TheArchers

On the occasion of #SocialMediaDay, it was wonderful to have @andytattersall.bsky.social present at our Seminar on the 'Future of Social Media in HE'. So many interesting insights and lots for our Social Media Scholarship Hub to consider. Thanks to everyone who attended 😍 @azumahcarol.bsky.social

International Social Media Day, seminar on Monday 30th June, 12-1pm 'The Future of Social Media in Higher Education' with Andy Tattersall, University of Sheffield. Hosted by the brilliance that is @oliviakellyou.bsky.social To attend, complete the form for an invite: lnkd.in/eNTeJNyt

Even they draw the line at genocide

Allowing assisted dying while savagely cutting PIP is telling disabled people they're allowed to die with dignity but not to live with dignity

A labour of unrequited professional love. New Blog post from OU PGR Blogger: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/welspg...

A labour of unrequited professional love. New Blog post from OU PGR Blogger: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/welspg...