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
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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
Heterotopias in higher education
The wonderful thing about calling myself the slow academic is that it gives me permission to publish a post that has been a long time coming. I started this post after a November 2020 gathering of the Higher Education Scholars Network, a loose collaboration of Sydney-based higher education researchers that went online during the pandemic … Continue reading Heterotopias in higher education
The Slow Academic 