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CERS’ Higher Education Bulletin, 11th October 2021
Theme of the Week A plea to marketers Nic Hillman of HEPI meanders about his higher education journal in a recent blog, suggesting that higher education transforms cities and regions; provides the skills, the knowledge and the cutting-edge research that delivers progress as he advocates these to marketers as a good product– so actually equalling…
Childhood and Society Seminar: Cold War Literature for Children with Professor Victoria de Rijke (12pm London Time, 11th Oct 2021, free, online)
Abstract: This visual presentation will explore the tensions inherent in producing literature about war for children. It will trace a line of ‘expressive suppression’ from the radical, avant-garde picturebooks of the Cold War period to a later postwar ‘hypomnesia’. I will argue that C21st backward-looking representations of the Cold Warreflect changing political dimensions and ideologies…
CERS’ Higher Education Bulletin, 4th October 2021
Spending Review Huge economic contribution Many have published their contribution to the spending review. GuildHE and the Russell Group have also published as have UniversitiesUK. They state that Universities in England contribute around £95 billionto the economy and support more than 815,000 jobs across England, new findings by Frontier Economics today reveal. In terms of GDP, the higher…
CERS’ Higher Education Bulletin, 27th September 2021
The REF On 12 May 2022, the REF will publish the results of REF 2021. Publication will include the overall quality profile awarded to each submission, by unit of assessment (UOA) along with the output, impact and environment sub-profiles combined to produce the overall quality profile for each. ASSESSMENT Advance HE has published a…
Video: Portal-time and wander lines – What does virusing-with make possible in childhood research? (Professor Jayne Osgood, Childhood and Society Seminar)
This paper emerged from the forces of a global pandemic that has invited us to wrestle with what ‘virusing-with’, as an everyday, bodily and affective practice, makes possible in educational research. We feel the Coronavirus perform its agency in ways that are imperceptible but palpably sensed – in our everyday lives as early childhood scholars,…
CERS’ Higher Education Bulletin, 20th September 2021
New Leadership It been a busy week in higher education. The long awaited Westminster Cabinet has seen a new Secretary of State for Education – Nadhim Zahawi – with Minister for Universities Michelle Donelan staying but adding apprenticeships and skills to her beefed-up ministerial brief, as well as Cabinet duties. Freedom of Speech There has…
Childhood and Society Seminar with Professor Jayne Osgood: Portal-time and wander lines: What does virusing-with make possible in childhood research? (12pm London Time, 20th Sep, free, online)
This paper emerged from the forces of a global pandemic that has invited us to wrestle with what ‘virusing-with’, as an everyday, bodily and affective practice, makes possible in educational research. We feel the Coronavirus perform its agency in ways that are imperceptible but palpably sensed – in our everyday lives as early childhood scholars,…
Digital Critical Pedagogies for Enhancing Dialogues about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Learning and Teaching
Principal Investigator: Dr Mona Sakr, Co-Investigator: Faiza Hyder Funded by the Centre for Academic Practice Enhancement (CAPE), Middlesex University. In three stages, the project examines how learning and teaching of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in university courses can be enhanced through digital critical pedagogies. This is urgent given the need to weave EDI more…
Video: Challenging Negative Perceptions around the ‘African Child’ (Childhood and Society Seminar Series)
This free online event was hosted on Monday 12th July 2021. Dr Evelyn Corrado, Roehampton University & Dr Leena Robertson, Middlesex University Contemporary childhood studies have portrayed the ‘African child’ as one who is vulnerable and disadvantaged. The developing world construct is a ‘western’ preconceived label, which shapes a universal deprived position for Africans. Nonetheless,…