While we're doing our "the problem with university teaching" takes, mine is that it should be more shocking that in basically every UK university, the crucial decisions about teaching and assessment are made centrally, by fiat, and are almost never guided by active teaching staff or subject experts.
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
Good to be back with friends in Ireland today @maynootheducation.bsky.social to present my paper "Queer faith for education: The reparative pedagogy of Shon Faye's Love in Exile."
Check out other work from my Faculty's Values, Ethics, and Culture RKE theme here:
www.edgehill.ac.uk/departments/...
We didn't bastardise the English language into "ye", "yiz", "youse" and "yousins" to have Irish people unconnected to the US or other places it's used in saying "y'all", unless you're referring to the town in Cork we've PERFECTLY ADEQUATE second person plural pronouns at HOME
📣 MU Department of Education is delighted to host a seminar -Dr Seán Henry, Queer faith for education: The reparative pedagogy of Shon Faye’s Love in Exile
🗓 Date: Monday, 2nd March
⏰ Time: 4:00–6:00pm
📍 Location: SE229, Maynooth University
Register: forms.office.com/e/apbW21g4C6
In the UK academic recession, you will be at one of these stages since many unis buy the same cuts model from the same consultancies. It is always the same process:
*Talk of belt-tightening
*Incidental savings (e.g. printing, refreshments)
*Travel budgets cut
*Promotion freeze (1/4)
new article in British Educational Research Journal: bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... we ran focus groups with 42 teacher educators in England, showing how recent teacher education policy reforms are a system of administrative compliance which governs through fear and control.
In conversation with Shon Faye.
Premiering now: 👇🏼
youtu.be/3qkAGseHe3I?...
Couldn't agree with this more except the word 'unfortunately' - I think it's the best possible outcome right now. Union leadership needs to listen! There are lots of people making excellent points about why this wasn't going to work and they weren't being heard because the only option is STRIKE.
A letter from President Catherine Connolly to the trans community of Ireland, wishing them "warmest wishes" on TDOR. She also marks the 10th anniversary of the GRA 2015 and "reminds us that the work of safeguarding dignity and ensuring genuine inclusion remains ongoing."
@teni.bsky.social don't seem to use their bsky account so I'm posting this over here from their facebook because people should see it: one of the first things our new President Connolly did last week was write the community a letter for TDOR 🏳️⚧️
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President Catherine Connolly’s inaugural speech.
“As I speak, I am acutely conscious of the 165 million people currently forcibly displaced from their homes and countries due to war, famine and climate change. We cannot turn back the clock nor close our eyes to these realities.”
Don't ask me to explain but Dublin, Belfast and Cork are all autumn cities but Galway is a summer city.
Last week on Wonkhe: Former Teaching Excellence Framework chair Chris Husbands and deputy chair Janice Kay unpick the Office for Students’ proposals for the future shape of the exercise
Irish Educational Studies is seeking to fill 2 co-editor positions.
The new Co-editors will work alongside the editorial team of the journal, lead by General Editor, Prof. Audrey Bryan.
Check out further details here: esai.ie/irish-educat...
Deadline: 5pm, Fri 12th September 2025.
Wonderful to see this paper published!
"Knowledge of autism and attitudes towards inclusive education for autistic pupils: a representative survey of school communities in Ireland."
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I've signed up for online Irish language classes next semester! Looking forward to becoming a student again!
Well deserved, Ian, huge congrats! 🤗
Artists were the canary in the coalmine
Front cover of Allice Sullivan's report, which reads: Review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender. Report 2: Barriers to research on sex and gender.
Alice Sullivan’s latest government-funded report into sex and gender research is a masterclass in trying to turn anti-trans perpetrators into victims. /1
www.sullivanreview.uk/barriers.pdf
NEW on Wonkhe: Academics are encouraged to be innovative in their pedagogy but Emma Thirkell and Kamilya Suleymenova argue that insufficient attention is paid to academic identity buff.ly/yBVu3qp
Veli-Mikko Kauppi and I recently edited a special issue of Ethics & Education, focused on the work of early career researchers.
Check out our editorial introduction here:
Education for a better future? Theory, practice, and social justice www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I'm looking forward to present some of my research on queer thriving in Catholic schools at the Phillippine Society of Education and Philosophy next week!
Tues 6th May, 10.30am BST.
NEW on Wonkhe: Nikolai Elkins notes that gay men consistently outperform their peers – and urges policymakers to adopt more nuanced, intersectional approaches to attainment buff.ly/KTLNUJd
This makes me laugh every year 🤣
The longer I live in Liverpool, the more like home it becomes. Easter clothes were also a thing for me growing up ...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
They're not "protecting women". They're little servants of patriarchy and fascism that think they've a right to harass and attack anyone who doesn't fit their narrow, conservative view of womanhood and are delusional if they think the same gowls they're doing the legwork for won't come for them next
A pink background with a speech bubble that reads: The Politics of Categories
Categories used by the state to sort people into boxes are never neutral.
Some thoughts on the UK Supreme Court case ruling and the wider anti-trans campaign to narrow sex and gender categories in policy, data and law.
📝 kevinguyan.com/2025/04/16/t...
IES updates, given by Prof Audrey Bryan.
IES updates, given by Prof Audrey Bryan.
The IES/Taylor & Francis reception
Wonderful to be part of another annual meeting of @esai-irl.bsky.social last week!
Highlights included IES updates from our General Editor, Prof. Audrey Bryan, as well as the IES/Taylor & Francis conference reception 🥂 Until next year! #esai25
