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.
28.02.2026 01:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
27.02.2026 17:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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!
25.02.2026 01:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Well this looks absolutely horrible.
24.02.2026 02:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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Submission gone into Sage for a little competition to win some $$ - Bounded Sources and Traceable Claims:
A Practical Routine for Critical Thinking When Standards Change.
Fingers crossed!
The scope is limited but it’s real and an honest account of the time and moment.
Alumni-Reported Employability Competency Development in a Higher-Education Enterprise Programme: Young Enterprise Start Up (2021)
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Well is this the best piece of work I’ll ever produce? Almost certainly not, but it’s of personal importance to me.
I recreated my old Masters dissertation and did some updates on it, just basic literature etc to give it a slightly more modern feel, no substantial changes. So now it’s available.
Brilliant update as usual and very informative.
18.02.2026 06:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sometimes with your research you have to be honest with yourself and say what I have produced here is not groundbreaking.
But that doesn’t mean it has no value.
It just needs to be cleanly presented as what it is. We don’t need to hype everything.
Well I’ve tried, and here it is if you would like to read about it.
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How can the Kraljic Matrix, which categorises procurement decisions according to their strategic importance and supply risk, and a framework for the governance of generative AI in assessed writing possibly link together?
17.02.2026 07:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Public note to self. Reworking a 2021 HE enterprise programme dataset into a 2026 competency-only SoTL article. Old work can still become useful if you narrow the claim and clean the evidence. Don’t waste writing or research.
17.02.2026 02:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What do you think of this? It’s either crazy or a brutally honest social experiment in academic publishing. jaigp.org/about
15.02.2026 06:26 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Ok paper submitted and now we see and wait.
12.02.2026 18:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Do you ever get the feeling that ever so slowly your work and thoughts might be beginning to be noticed by others?
12.02.2026 06:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oh my goodness. I just converted references in a manuscript from APA 7th to Chicago 17th manually.
There’s an automated way to do this isn’t there, please tell me there is as I am never doing that again!
This was kind. When a student goes online and you get some nice feedback it doesn’t half help keep you going.
Thank you, in all seriousness you have made my day and made starting again tomorrow a bit easier.
We teach because we love it!
You know what I truly love more than anything else in my job. Being a teacher.
It’s hard and tough, and often you feel you are getting nowhere, but something always brings to back in. That’s when you know you’re a teacher.
We should always be giving our students a hand ‘up’ when they are doing external work.
Give this guy a follow as he’s a young male doing good work in an area where us ‘fellas’ need it most.
Keep talking.
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I don’t know if this is of any use to people but if it is feel free to to use it- Quality-First AI Writing Check (Sand Cone): A worksheet with worked example.
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Just wondering if anyone has tried this AI literature searching tool yet. So many out there which I haven’t as yet had chance to play with. This one is called ‘Answer This’.
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AI assisted writing. Treat it like Ferdows’ sand cone.
Start with QUALITY, verify facts & citations.
Then DEPENDABILITY, repeatable workflow + source fidelity. Then SPEED, use AI for structure/editing (time-boxed).
Then EFFICIENCY, minimise rework, archive/reuse fragments.
Truth first. AI second.
In this weeks Medium story I examine ‘The waste problem in Academic Writing’. You can read it here if you like on Medium.
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