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I work in #HigherEducation in Manchester, UK &spend my time on #belonging, #inclusion, #StudentSupport & #EquitablePedagogy. I have three kids, a horse &a serious book buying problem, all of which will probably come up here. I like hearing what other people are thinking about and love learning from them.
I am a (UK) National Teaching Fellow &have my Principal Fellowship from AdvanceHE. You can find my ORCID here: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1553-4737
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tends to chat about#InclusivePractice, #EmancipatoryPedagogy, #Belonging, #StudentSupport
Like, analyzing a specific managerial chain in a field that literally keeps itself segregated for decades? You think that doesn't include certain rules? Come on, that's not universal human laws of communication that represent all human beings, if you are willing to get SITUATED with the specific toxicities of a management chain in a given place why aren't you comfortable getting situated with the cultural baggage that structure brings in?

Sometimes these pieces seem to land on a model of human sociality that is fundamentally about unconscious impulses driving us into irrational behavior. That's old school and contradicted by more sophisticated social cognition work.

Explanations are incomplete when they don't push us to think, what are groups and environment*person interactions that DO create the conditions for meaningful dissent? Why do they happen in some places and not others? Your answer can't just be "people are bad"

also psychologically i feel like student loans would be easier to pay off if you know that paying them off means someone else is directly benefiting by getting an education

Also a useful question when folks come to me and say, "we want to change our engineering org's culture" is: "and how will we know the culture has changed....?"

For me, assuming you can actually observe it in a safe way (not a given, prob needs someone like me to design it lol), less threatened belonging could be part of that answer. It keeps you honest in a way that many other measures don't.

I watched Inside Out 2, NOBODY TOLD ME IT WAS ABOUT PSYCHOLOGICAL BELIEF FORMATION, I am destroyed
Pilots on Facebook are sharing stories + images of #SpaceJunk breakups and alerts they have seen. Surreal that this is seemingly a regular occurrence in #Aviation now.
Good morning, everyone. It may be another Monday morning, but I hope you all have a great day. You’ve got this.
Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is...

I missed this last week. Lovely #GoodNews story about the ginnel gardens of Manchester.
( Note for readers: a ginnel is a back alleyway between terraced houses).

#Gardening #Manchester #UrbanGardens

‘When it’s sunny, we get the barbecue out’: urban gardeners transform foul alleys into verdant havens | Access to green space | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/12/when-its-sunny-we-get-the-barbecue-out-urban-gardeners-transform-foul-alleys-into-verdant-havens?CMP=upside_email

‘When it’s sunny, we get the barbecue out’: urban gardeners transform foul alleys into verdant havens

Flowers, herbs and community spirit all flourishing in garden ginnels reclaimed from once-rubbish-strewn alleys

The Guardian
JOB POSTING: Director of teaching and learning center at SUNY Cortland https://www.higheredjobs.com/admin/details.cfm?JobCode=178889628