I enjoyed reading this - I rarely enjoy reading academic articles, but this one speaks to arguments about #agonism in #HigherEducation
I make similar points about #AcademicWriting in ch 2 'Academic writing as political': https://uclpress.co.uk/book/critical-perspectives-on-academic-writing/ #OpenAccess
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-025-09644-0

Critical Perspectives on Academic Writing offers a timely, theoretically grounded examination of the often marginalised yet foundational role of academic writing in UK higher education. Based on the UCL Institute of Education’s Academic Writing Seminar Series, the volume brings together leading researchers and practitioners to interrogate the contested politics, practices, and pedagogies of academic writing […]
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Collaboration Architecture is featured in Touchpoint, the Journal of Service Design, out today.
Also, not hidden somewhere on the inside, but it is the first article.
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“With this issue of Touchpoint we wanted to step back and change the perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific development in the discipline of service design, we wanted to look at where the practice itself is going. What we do is no longer niche nor young, and we must avoid the standardisation and sedimentation of practice that can stifle the sometimes radical innovation our field needs. The contributions in this issue were a response to our call to look beyond the established horizons of service design towards what’s coming next. And what a fascinating set of provocations they are!”
https://www.logos-verlag.de/cgi-bin/engtransid?page=/touchpoint-issues.html&lng=eng&id=
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