Thanks so much for your encouraging feedback – I’ve definitely been reminded in this process of how important encouragement is from the student perspective!

When you mention the naming of the problems, I’m left thinking about how to move from naming to action. How to incorporate that action in my teaching practice, to what extent…Read more

The Mei Hu article has been especially helpful for me in accessing a discourse around shame. I find it instructive that she identifies the way in which the culture of individualism suggests that systemic problems in Higher Education should fall to the responsibility of individual students.

She brings in…Read more

I’ve found myself exploring Ahmed’s writing a lot in this unit. It’s been very helpful to read beyond the works of hers I was familiar with (it seems appropriate as she is queen of the blog).

I find myself needing to be reminded of a more urgent activist voice when I’m approaching this work of…Read more

The complexification of questions of faith brought out in…Read more

I was really struck by your observations around the characteristics of fast-paced work environments, and how they tend to prioritise normative and hegemonic values that prioritise certain bodies and exclude others. Similarly your comments about how there is not a baseline provision made in education settings outside of a limited and…Read more

Like others, I enjoyed the seeds analogy that you use to point to structural and environmental facto…Read more