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  • Social Media and Doing a PhD: what do you need to know?

  • Debates about the nature of education

  • The social origins of educational systems 

  • the school in the sky, the school between the cracks

  • Who’s a Bully? Civility, Authoritarianism, and Power in the Contemporary Academy

  • #BSADigital Live Blog: Session 3 – Data Futures

  • Socialising children into digital agency: why it’s not the same as reading, writing and arithmetic

  • Education Beyond Dispute: the work of Stafford Beer for Teaching and Learning

  • (Post)Humanism in the Accelerated Academy

  • Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

  • CfP: Post-H(uman) index? Politics, metrics, and agency in the accelerated academy

  • What does the case of Jeffery Sachs tell us about the accelerated academy?

  • From the Ivory Tower to the Glass Tower

  • Call for Papers: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

  • What we mean when we talk about the Platform University

  • Defending the social at #undisciplining

  • Fast and slow writing in the accelerated academy

  • Critique and Agency in the Accelerated Academy, June 8th @CPGJCam

  • The slow university

  • Call for Papers: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

  • Platform capitalism and the future of education

  • Call for Papers: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

  • Why would senior managers feel contemptuous of their expert staff?

  • The Intellectual Self-Defence of #USSStrikes: Social Media, Critique and Collective Intellectuals

  • ‘Student Experience’ and the social ontology of the student

  • Social media, #USSStrikes and Digital Sociology

  • Social media strategy and #USSStrikes

  • CfP Changing Political Economy of Research & Innovation Workshop 2018

  • Two important initiatives for social media in higher education

  • The social struggle between collegiality and bureaucracy

  • Before the culture war on universities, there was a culture war on schools

  • CfP: Accelerated Academy

  • Against university marketing

  • Craft and exploitation in the digital university

  • CFP: The Digital Dissertation: History, Theory, Practice (an eBook & Database Project)

  • The coming big data revolution within higher education

  • The rise of the ‘higher education professional’

  • On the Spiralists

  • The Political Economy of Student Housing

  • The Polysemic University

  • The Porous University – A critical exploration of openness, space and place in Higher Education

  • The Uberfication of the University: the Digital Studienbuch and the 21st Century Privatdozent

  • Marketing the Digital University

  • The new frontiers of monitoring your students

  • The ambivalent promise of higher education

  • A conversation between myself and @benjamingeer about a Bourdieusian approach to understanding alt-academia

  • The centralisation of the web and the constraints on academic speech

  • The Future of ‘Impact’ in the UK

  • The (Coming) Crisis of Free Speech in the Digital University

  • Abundance and austerity 

  • An Introduction to the Accelerated Academy: by me and @Filvos

  • Educational technology in an age of Trump: a risk to students?

  • Removing Statute 24 constitutes a seismic shift in job security for all Warwick university employees

  • The marketing case for radical university leadership, or at least the pretence thereof

  • Cartoons about the impact agenda 

  • pirate philosophy in (and for) the digital university

  • some thoughts on the poetics of impact

  • Pascalian Meditations on the Digital University

  • The MOOC as a trojan horse

  • The Eschatology of Technology

  • Against ‘openness’

  • The forward-facing ideology of technology: erasing history and context 

  • How universities shape the technology developed for them

  • The (un)productive chaos of disciplines

  • Discipline and innovate 

  • Academic exceptionalism and the black-boxing of academic labour

  • On Teaching Theory

  • The Impact Agenda as Paradigm Shift

  • This week: the second Accelerated Academy

  • When universities fail to cope with digitalisation

  • Some recent articles about the accelerated academy

  • Some thoughts on fast and slow science in the accelerated academy

  • Big data, new skills: how the accelerated academy hinders the interdisciplinary collaboration we need

  • Symposium: Anxiety and Work in the Accelerated Academy

  • The Dispositions of the Metricised

  • The Lean Revolution in Higher Education

  • Symposium: Anxiety and Work in the Accelerated Academy

  • A wonderful example of how universities can use YouTube

  • Symposium: Anxiety and Work in the Accelerated Academy

  • The limitations on learning to code as a labour market strategy

  • Social Media and Academic Labour

  • Social Media and Academic Labour

  • Credentials, recruitment and big data 

  • UCU workload survey report

  • Are exploitative professors breaking the law by recruiting student interns?

  • Magical thinking as occupational opportunities contract 

  • Call for Papers: The Accelerated Academy

  • What do universities know about our sexual orientations?

  • A special @thesocreview feature on the rise of the Superstar Professor

  • Social Media and Academic Labour, June 27th in Leeds

  • Call For Papers: The Precariat & The Professor

  • The Second Accelerated Academy

  • Seeing Like a University: The Need for an Academic Caesar

  • The value of university managed online spaces

  • How will social media transform #highered?

  • CfP: 2016 Learning with MOOCs Conference, October 6-7, 2016 at the University of Pennsylvania

  • #BritSoc16 fringe event: ‘Radical Education Inside and Outside the Neoliberal University’

  • Notes on the Uberisation of Doctoral Education

  • The Shifting Plate Tetonics of the Human Sciences 

  • Open access as a mechanism for the acceleration of higher education

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