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Last week, an anthropology PhD student in New Zealand wrote a summary and response to a paper I gave at the Association for Journalism Education annual conference, in September this year. I though her commentary was a thoughtful piece with a fair set of conclusions: that bloggers self-select their networks based on beliefs. And that [...]

Today is blog action day, and this year’s theme is poverty.
As for La Marguerite, one of my favourite personal/public blogs on climate and human responsibility, I was thinking of blogging something close to home, maybe climate related. But much of the thought process at the moment is around writing a critical incident diary for my [...]

I’ve just been responding to a survey for a forthcoming book, Embedding Sustainability across the Higher Education Curriculum, being put together by a researcher from Brighton University. It looks like a great project and a thoroughly needed piece of research.
These were my very brief responses to my experiences so far, but something I’ll be thinking [...]

To celebrate 100 posts, I’m taking a leaf out of Paul Bradshaw’s blogbook (1000 things he’s learnt about blogging) and reflecting on what I’ve learnt over the last nine months. A small thanks to Paul, as he’s certainly one of my top five blogs I check every day, and from whom I have learnt a [...]

We’re working on a new digital project at Sunderland that will give our students a great outlet to develop their skills online. One of the key issues we’re coming up against, of course, is the liability that we as a journalism department may have as publishers of student work.
A practical benefit of the new digital [...]

This story on political viewpoints getting on university reading lists (in the US) is an important one, as it shows how the good ol’ American tradition of inserting bias into education has reached a teaching of the environment.
As some of the comments on this article say, the textbook in question (’American Government’) is a politics [...]

I’ve had a couple of conversations with my students regarding the value of degrees.
For example, one student, who runs themusicmagazine.co.uk, a pretty sharp self-made music, err, magazine, was wondering what the value of a degree was when he could easily publish and develop as a journalist without having to attend lectures. Particularly when he and [...]