Markets, Expertise and the Public University: A crisis in knowledge for democracy? Wednesday 28 June 2012, 14.00-17.00 Open University, Milton Keynes, Library Seminar Rooms, 1&2 The Creating Publics project was launched in March 2012 with the aim of innovating new ways of engaging publics in the on-going processes of social science research and public life. For the 3rd … Continue reading »
Upcoming social media training workshops at the University of Warwick
Digital Change GPP Workshops for University of Warwick Researchers An introduction to multi-author blogging Tuesday, May 29th, 12pm to 1pm Research Exchange, Seminar Room 2 Register for the event here Introduction to academic podcasting 6th June, 12pm to 1pm Research Exchange, Seminar Room 1 Register for the event here Demystifying social media 18th June, 2pm … Continue reading »
Postmodernism and the Three ‘Pomo Flips’
Faced with theoretical or philosophical positions that seem untenable, it is tempting to counter them by reversing or inverting them, for example, responding to empiricism’s belief in the rooting of knowledge in empirical observation by claiming knowledge to be independent of observation and observation to be wholly dependent on discourses. This strategy retains the problematic … Continue reading »
Postdoctoral Funding Workshop
31st May 12 noon to 3:30 pm (including lunch between 12 and 1) Scarman House This event has been designed to give attendees the ability to produce competitive Post-Doc funding applications by giving them the chance to listen to, and interact with, more experienced colleagues who have won Post-doc awards. Matthew Watson is Professor of Political … Continue reading »
Relationality and Reflexivity
What we are attempting to accomplish is to marry our concerns to a way of life that allows their realization, a way of life about which we can be wholehearted, investing ourselves in it with each personifying its requirements in our and unique manner. Hence we gain and maintain some governance over our own lives. … Continue reading »
Wherefore Art Thou Elvis?
I cut my teeth on the stone of a teenage romance I was the salt of the earth, I was hard, and the last of the independents And the breath from my chest I was blowing kerosene My lips and fingertips were stone, I wore my heart on my jeans I sang the blues like … Continue reading »
Continuous Publishing, Open Research and Impact (part 2)
Part 2 of this post. I had to stop writing because the battery on my phone was dying. Though the fact that I can write part 1 of the post (on my phone in a coffee shop in Manchester while waiting for a train) and write part 2 of the post (from a desktop computer … Continue reading »
Continuous Publishing, Open Research and Impact
Some initial thoughts for a talk i’m doing tomorrow: – what goes into producing a chapter or a paper? Lots of ideas, conversations, extracts from texts, chunks of writing etc. some of these have a social existence, in so far as they emerge out of formal or informal academic conversations, however most are private and … Continue reading »
Protests against privatisation at Sussex University – Tuesday 22 and Thursday 24 – please spread the word!
Staff and students announce protests against University of Sussex privatisation Staff and students at the University of Sussex will be protesting against plans to privatise university’s support services next week. Campus trade unions today (Friday) announced there will be protests on Tuesday (22 May) and Thursday (24 May) at 1pm at the university’s library square (see notes … Continue reading »
Using visual metaphor to explain how stuff works: what theorists can learn from beatboxing?
In this video the Beardyman, UK beat boxer renowned for his use of live looping, collaborates with the visual artist mr_hopkinson to visually describe the practice. As someone who is fascinated by this kind of music but had never understood how it works, I was incredibly impressed by the articulacy of the visual message. The video communicates embodied practical knowledge through … Continue reading »
