Things I Learned at University How to bike on cobblestones and where to signal right.How to walk through doors held by Old Etoniansand not scowl. How to make myself invisible in seminarsby staring at the table. How to tell Victorian Gothic from Medieval.How to eat a Mars bar in the Bodleian. When to agreewith everything … Continue reading An irreverent poem
Slow reading
Slow reading during plague years
Barbara Grant and I, with interlocutions from editor Sean Sturm, have a paper published in the latest Knowledge Cultures: Surviving the Years of Plague: Two Feminist Academics’ Interrupted Reading of Raewyn Connell’s The Good University. The article will be available via Proquest and Gale Academic soon (or you can request an author copy). We shared … Continue reading Slow reading during plague years
Universities, goodness and plague
On Thursday evening, Barbara Grant and Sean Sturm (University of Auckland/Waipapa Taumata Rau, Aotearoa New Zealand), Rikke Toft Nørgård (Aarhus University, Denmark) and I hosted the first webinar in the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society (PaTHES) Slow Academia – Wonder, Wandering, Generosity & Presence in the University series. It was called Surviving the … Continue reading Universities, goodness and plague
The Slow Academic 