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Dr Nicola Rivers and Dr Dave Webster Since the introduction of fees to UK Higher Education there has…
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Higher Education is not The Apprentice, and neither is the ‘Real World’.
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Dr Nicola Rivers and Dr Dave Webster. Enabled by technology, we were discussing assessment feedback in Higher Education,…
Schrödinger’s Snowflake.
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Too scared to make a phone call, and hear opposing views, while simultaneously the greatest threat…
Critiquing Discourses of Resilience in Education
Resisting Resilience, and other unpopular opinions Dr Nicola Rivers and Dr Dave Webster Everywhere you look in Higher Education, we are told … More
LIFT report blog: From ‘Grit’ towards collaborative pedagogic reflection.
Dr Nikki Rivers Dr David Webster Throughout 2017-18 academic year, we have been working on a Learning Innovation For Tomorrow … More
What is ‘motivation porn’, and why does Higher Education seem addicted to it?
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Dr Nicola Rivers and Dr Dave Webster. In our recent work, looking at discourses of ‘resilience’ and ‘grit’…
Stop Trying to Fix Students and Start Trying to Fix the University
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Dr Nicola Rivers and Dr Dave Webster What do Universities do for students to help them secure a…
Why it’s always personal… Rejection, failure and the University as a bad boyfriend
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Dr Nicola Rivers and Dr Dave Webster [With a hat-tip to the Thesis Whisperer] Academia is fuelled by…
Teaching In Higher Ed podcast on Resilience in Education.
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Recently, Dr Rivers and I were interviewed by Bonni Stachowiak, from Teaching in Higher Ed, for their…
Grit, Resilience and Vulnerability: Higher Education, Neoliberal Accounts of Human Nature & Student Attributes
This is a blog to accompany our University of Gloucestershire, Being Human Research Priority Area-funded, project, entitled Grit, Resilience and Vulnerability: … More
