I spotted this timeline for a book about AI within HE.
The book and what it intends to cover looks brilliant but it’s likely not going to be available until 2028, based initially off proposed abstracts created in May 2026.
That’s an age in AI. I don’t know if there’s an answer to this.
I’ve picked up a bunch of cheap A4 notepads and for ‘some’ activities for my upcoming May PG classes we are going old school so we remember the importance of writing.
For other activities we’ll use our Teams channels / Google NotebookLM etc but just now and again let’s write something down.
Tang, G., Eaton, S. E. & Cai, W. (2026). Academic
misconduct appeal services in China: Platform logics, self-platformization and
implications for integrity education. British Educational Research Journal, 00, 1–27. doi.org/10.1002/berj...
A very good article share for those interested in academic integrity.
What happens after an international student is accused of academic misconduct? This is one of those few articles I really read every word, fascinating stuff and months and months of work gone into the data collection.
If you know you know.
Reading the Wrestling World: Character and Cultural Meaning in WWF 1985-1993.
These form a small but important part of the instruction chapter.
This first slide set is the opening part of that wider project. More will follow as it develops.
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My argument is that this was more than a run of famous matches and stars. WWF built a symbolic world in which viewers learned to read characters, authority, nationality, morality, and spectacle very quickly through costumes, music, commentary, managers, and recurring types.
I’m starting to share snippets from a longer personal book project, Reading the Wrestling World.
The project looks at the WWF between 1985 and 1993, from WrestleMania I to the first night of Monday Night Raw, and asks what made that period so culturally legible and memorable.
I am going to do this!
Great news- book chapter proposal accepted.
Our chapter "Credibility After Neoliberalism: Rebuilding Trust Through Transparent Practice," for the upcoming book, "The Interconnectedness and Moral Obligations of Post-Neoliberal Education, Business, and Society."
Time to get writing!
At this stage it’s just a dream but maybe one day it could be a reality.
If you love wrestling and are a University academic (ok I get it, we might be small in number!) this just looks brilliant.
WrestlePosium VIII. What the world is watching…
Now this is fun!!
Maybe the fix needs to be to define what ‘special’ actually covers (and what it doesn’t), so disagreement stops looking like collapse. I’ll be writing about this soon.
This piece won’t my view of the politics, but that of how language and phrasing can be used, and potentially abused.
The US / UK special relationship works less like a fact and more like a story both countries tell to steady politics at home and signal alignment abroad.
This week’s Starmer–Trump friction is a reminder; the phrase gets stretched to cover everything, then cracks the moment interests diverge.
There is an unseen value for Universities if their academics are online and building a genuine personal narrative that prospective students can see and tap into.
This isn’t discussed or considered enough. I’m considering writing about it.
With recruitment competitive this is an important issue.
I had a desk rejection today re my 'Making Modest Employability Claims from Alumni Self-Report' short article. But good feedback and possibly the opportunity to resubmit in a different format.
So all is not lost, writing will not be wasted and will reframe and go again. No writing will be lost!
Coming soon to Medium-
The Two-Name Problem: Why Venues Don’t Rename Cleanly.
Stadiums and music venues often have two names; the official one, and the one people actually use. If you’ve got a “sticky” old name that won’t die, please reply with it.
This is for a future project I’m working on re repeated and resurfaced linguistics.
For my Supply Chain students this isn’t a ‘nice’ story but it’s real and current and a useful case study for very potential ‘flow’ problems which are on the horizon.
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Maybe there is a way that we can get students to assist with their own redesign of assessment.
I’m exploring this in my new MSc module Industrial Work Design and Organisation. You can read about it here.
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Slides all now complete for new MSc module I’ve been building. Industrial Work Design and Organisation, live in May. A module built specifically for Engineers to think about how we can redesign workflows and how to make systems and frameworks boost productivity whilst supporting employee welfare.
My latest Medium story is now live- AI Music and The Wedding Threshold
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Short letter has been submitted. Let’s see where it goes.
Here is how I’m attempting to redesign assessment for my students in 2026. Will it work? Maybe, maybe not but we have to try. We cannot give up, if you are a ‘teacher first’ academic you never give up trying!
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Trying something speculative; taking a dissertation of mine that’s been sat on a hard drive for years, then squeezing it down twice, first as a preprint, then as a journal briefing letter. It’s basically academic reverse-logistics with a DOI trail. Fingers crossed!
Well this looks absolutely horrible.
The key to my writing pipeline is always thinking six months ahead to what is next- future idea note to self. Title (working)
Sticky Names: Sponsorship, Linguistic Persistence, and Recursive Exposure in Stadium and Venue Renaming
This has been really fun to produce / finding the links about how wrestling fans have been trained to spot ‘fakes’ for decades. Let’s see what happens next. Probably ‘the’ most enjoyable piece of academic work I’ve produced. Partly because I’m a huge fan!
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