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Associate Teaching Professor #studychat #LoveLD #creativeHE. For playful pedagogy; creativity as liberatory practice; making, drawing & animation for learning.
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#LoveLD Of course we should be writing: open.spotify.com/episode/6uas... @GordonAsher #ldppodcast in, against & beyond the neoliberal university.

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A joy to share this episode of the L&T Chat Show podcast with with Vici Daphne Händel talking about In Real Life Games, creating physical and social games using her play activity wheel model. open.spotify.com/episode/03zp... #LoveLD

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#LoveLD - love the LDPPodcast - and this issue with our friend and collaborator Sandra Abegglen - and here it is: open.spotify.com/episode/6aWr... Our girl done good, didn't she Tom?

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#LoveLD - love the LDPPodcast - and this issue with our friend and collaborator @sandra_abegglen - on collaboration - looking back at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/collabora... & forward to the forthcoming Stories of Hope book: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116.... Girl done good @LevellerB

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Lyon, France’s third-largest city, is the latest European government to announce it’s ditching Microsoft’s Office suite in favor of open source alternatives.

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A3 1.The neoliberal environment makes research a tool for promotion and not a way to probe into issues of interest. It kills the beauty of intellectual exploration 2.Sometones institutional aims do not align with the researchers aspirations and that can be a serious obstacle #LTHEchat

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Huge thanks to @maishaislam.bsky.social for the great questions. Have a great summer. #LTHEChat is having a rest and back in autumn 2025! #LTHEchat

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It's 👏 not 👏 just 👏 "REFable" papers 👏 that 👏 make 👏 impact! #LTHEChat

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A6 I’d remove the word research from your question and the implicit and explicit segregation. We are all academics. Some of us are pushing the boundaries of knowledge and some of us are pushing the boundaries of knowledge acquisition. #lthechat #donotBloomme

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I feel like I only just got here, though 🥲 #LTHEChat

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#LTHEchat A6 I would say, We are a learning institution - we want to model inquiry and the enthusiasm to learn and communicate - all will be supported in some form of research acitivity - it will not be by 5year plan! it will follow your interests, it will enrich you and us - and we will value that

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A5 “you’re a research-led University, describe how your undergraduate teaching environment has been informed by and has contributed to, discipline based education.” #lthechat

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A4 the rules for REF 2029 continue to reduce the perverse incentives to creatively exclude (relabel) researchers* essentially because their (sub) discipline has lower impact factor journals. #lthechat *best academic thing that ever happened to me, but that wasn’t the intent when it was done.

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#LTHEchat A5 I have not looked deeply into this REF round - but am saddened at how quickly HEI abandoned research around HE pedagogy because it was so poorly understood by the assessors last time round. Of course it is cheaper to exclude the many from feeling research active - but it is not equal.

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#LTHEchat A4 the last REF rounded included HE Pedagogy - however it seemed to be poorly understood by the evaluators and took some overall 'scores' down - so HEI immediately lost their nerve & tossed it out - thus actively disenfranchising many, and modelling lily livered compliance. Plus ca change

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A3 the single biggest threat is divisive use of the word “scholarship” - don’t allow yourself to be othered, you’re a discipline based pedagogical researcher. #lthechat #reclaimscholarship

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