At the excellent @jvetjournal.bsky.social 2025 conference in Oxford 🇬🇧, I had the opportunity to present ongoing work with my colleagues @leesawheelahan.bsky.social, Antti Seitamaa and Penni Pietila. We draw upon critical realist philosophy, further developing the concept of #reflexivity.

Hello @crnetwork.bsky.social, with @leesawheelahan.bsky.social we published an article in @bjse.bsky.social. We theorise the person envisaged in the global education policy discourse based on #skills and propose an alternative based on #CriticalRealism. It's open access. See, doi.org/10.1080/0142...

US authorities now demanding Helsinki University to remove words like "climate change" and "equal society" from a Fulbright scholarship call. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

What was desired with #inclusion when it was coined in the 1960s was to PROMOTE economic growth policies. Not DECLINE them, as the Trump administration does now. #DEI

The view that improving freedom of speech by forbidding words to be spoken is really something. It must go to history the greatest paradox of the bourgeois far-right populists ever #DEI #Fulbright #SocialJustice

In this article with Leesa Wheelahan, we use the critical realist concept of depth-ontology to examine personhood which is related to, but distinct from, human agency, social structure and the social context in which people practise their skills. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I would say we stand behind the same beliefs here in Finland 🇫🇮

Two things are certain: yesterday was not a good day, and I will never buy a Tesla!!

What I like most about this UK school of humanism is that it is based on realism, the philosophy of real people living in a real world and not a fantasy one.