I agree. I found the analogy with the banking sector prior to 2008 to be really instructive. Wd like to see more analysis of managing financial impact from information reporting (touched on). + sections on rebalancing teaching activity spend vs marketing and fostering cooperation not competition.

RIP Jürgen Habermas. To me, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is one of the most meaningful books I ever read.

Thank you 🙏🏼 for all of these lovely lists! Much appreciated

Hi are these only open to UoM folks? Would love to attend online on 5 Mar if that’s possible as an alum? Thanks if you can let me know

I’d love something new from Sarah Waters. (This is next best 😀) The Paying Guests is brilliant - although The Night Watch is my very favourite!

Work-based learning: Call for papers | Dr. Fran Myers Work-based learning: Call for papers

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Call for papers: work-based learning conference for doctoral and early career researchers - OU Milton Keynes 30 April 2026.

This looks terrific. I know hauntology is a minority interest in academia, but great fan of Justine Pors work in this area. Look forward to reading in due course!

Me too! Uncomfortable being on the other side of the fence as well this time ….

I think your thread worked just as well for the anxious parents 😀 thank you!

If you are the line manager or workplace mentor of a UK apprentice, we would love to hear from you about your experiences for a research study.

Problematising the unseen role of the line manager in degree apprenticeships: where do we go from here? Purpose. The paper examines the key – yet often unseen, under-appreciated and under-studied role in learning played by the line manager on degree apprenticeship programmes.Design/methodology/approach....

doi.org/10.1108/HESW... Been interesting to work on this via Higher Educaton Skills and Workbased Learning Journal with @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social with a more explicit policy agenda. Paper looks at degree apprenticeships and how there should be more benefits for line managers who support them.

Refocusing apprenticeships towards younger learners will require a renewed focus on student support Research by a team at The Open University suggests that, when it comes to degree apprenticeship independence and success, prior experience in the workplace makes a difference

This week on Wonkhe: Research by a team at The Open University suggests that, when it comes to degree apprenticeship independence and success, prior experience in the workplace makes a difference

Thanks for sharing our early findings, @wonkhe.bsky.social - any government moves to shift apprenticeships more heavily towards younger learners will have implications for how we support and retain them - including greater investment in workplace mentorship structures.

We will order! See you soon Fran 😀x

This was my first submission to @managementlearning.bsky.social - on disruptive emotions in pandemic working. If you are thinking of submitting here - wld highlight engaged and supportive process from reviewers and editor that made such positive improvements to paper. Thank you 🙏🏼

‘Lost futures’ and undermined pasts of the pandemic: Digital lecturers’ ghostly reflections of time, self and the university - Fran Myers, Hilary Collins, Hayley Glover, 2025 This article seeks to bear witness to the spectres of uncertainty and anxiety experienced through workplace isolations as university teaching occupied solely di...

It's been five years since that strange and silent spring of lockdown. The pandemic affected so many of us in so many ways. Article has been written both with sadness and a sense of privilege in tracing otherwise lost voices. Thanks to Management Learning for publishing.

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Some great advice here. Good luck to anyone at risk or dealing with ‘next’ right now. Useful advice I was given last time - if you are part way through a paper or two, and want to use some time to write - make sure you get everything you need before you lose library access …

Wow thanks so much all. So interesting (and fascinating displacement activity from my usual organisation studies stuff!) Thank you, will certainly have a read of your thesis, Will.

Yes, it’s that word ‘perilous’ that underscores the connector for me. I think there is also an earlier quote on Galadriel being fair and perilous (will have to look that one up!)

Lovely! I always find myself thinking of Keats ‘To a nightingale’ when I read the Lorien scenes… ‘do I wake or sleep?’ I am no Tolkien scholar though - does he ever talk about Keats or is it one of those random connections you make as a reader?

Yes this. Original request arrived mid-marking on Tuesday afternoon. Reminder on Sunday, with the hurt ‘shame you didn’t want to review’ coming 45 minutes after the reminder…. Soz but get paid to mark assignments first ….

Yes please 😀

A terrific article. Depressing, but beautifully and evocatively written on a subject that’s worrying us in higher education daily.

Seconded! It’s not my field but would be amazing to occasionally get such seminars online.

<em>British Educational Research Journal</em> | BERA Journal | Wiley Online Library In this paper, we entwine sympathetic concepts of liminality and workplace identity to capture processual, agential and emotional elements of transition for established professionals from other secto...

Would like to thank editorial team and anonymous but no less appreciated reviewers at @berj-2025.bsky.social - delighted to get this one in bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Now hoping to extend to further study on governmentality impacts on professionals coming into teaching ….

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Another bit of self-promotion, sorry. Good luck in your search journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I’ve picked up ‘reverse editing’ following someone else’s tip recently. Start with your concluding paragraph and work upwards - does your argument still work? Really good for spotting if your conclusion is a bit …fadey…

Saw your LinkedIn post, just joining here myself ….(slowly!)