Research update #25: getting on with it
Drawing once more from the Pat Thomson well – “the key thing I have to remember is” that perfect is the enemy of the good I really enjoy preparing things, getting all my ducks lined […]
Colin Simpson
Research update #24: The community
I mentioned recently that I’d come across some interesting anthropological research suggesting that the key reason that academics rarely innovate their teaching is fear of looking foolish in front of their students. There was a whole […]
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Building rapport between Educational Developers and Academics/Teachers
Our colleagues in the great white north – the Canadian Educational Developers Caucus – have produced a rich looking guide to building rapport between ed developers and academics/teachers. I haven’t had a chance to dig […]
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Research update #23 – The ‘troublemaker’
I went to a cross institute training thing last week and for some reason we did an icebreaker exercise where we had to introduce the person that we were sitting next to to the room. […]
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Selected tweets and notes from HERDSA 2017
Here’s a Storify that I created from tweets I made at the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) conference in Sydney last week. This is slightly scattered – in addition to notes […]
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Research update #22 – The Outsider
Today’s Pat Thomson inspired post revolves around “Risks I will and won’t take” Writing about the last paper that I read really brought home to me the fact that I’m looking at and engaging with […]
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Thoughts on: Responding to university policies and initiatives: the role of reflexivity in the mid-career academic (Brew, Boud, Lucas & Crawford, 2017)
Is academia a workplace like any other? Going by the normalisation of academic staff attitudes towards organisational policies and initiatives displayed in this paper, it’s hard to believe so. As a professional staff member in […]
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More creating opportunities and less kicking goals
I’ve been playing a bit of Rocket League on the Playstation 4 lately and it’s had me thinking about what I do at work. The game is essentially soccer with rocket powered, jumping stunt cars […]
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Looking for a new narrative
I woke from a dream this morning – no, it’s ok, I’m not going to tell you about it in detail – and am now wondering about the kind of story that I see myself […]
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Research update #21 – Where is this going?
When I tell academics what stage of my PhD I’m up to, they invariably smile wistfully and tell me that this stage is probably the best part of academia ever and I should just enjoy […]