Looking Forward… For me personally, 2019 has been quite a year. In January, I graduated with a Doctorate in Education (EdD), which took place inside the awe-inspiring Canterbury Cathedral. In May, I became a Senior Fellow (SFHEA) with Advance HE (formerly The Higher Education Academy), and officially received my certificate at my University’s Learning and […]
The #OpenBlog19 challenge created by David Hopkins is sparking a series of posts where educators go on to challenge others to write a blog in answer to a given question. David challenged me to write about ‘The most valuable lesson I ever learned…’. This is the first thing I have written (apart from work-related reports) […]
The story so far… I have finally reached the finish line. I can now pick up my prize after 5 long years: the Doctorate in Education (EdD). In my last Pilgrim’s Progress Report, I had just submitted my thesis in January 2018. In March 2018, I had a mock viva, which went well and left […]
Oh dear! I do not seem to be doing well with these progress reports. It’s been almost 12 months since my last Pilgrim’s Progress Report! Previously on Pilgrim’s Progress… As I had previously noted, 2017 was the year where most of my writing was going to take place. It culminated in a succession of first […]
Back in 2014, I contributed a book chapter to David Hopkins‘ excellent book The Really Useful #EdTechBook. The book was incredibly well-received within the learning technology sphere. The experience for me, personally and professionally, was a very good one. So much so, that I asked David to consider me if he were to produce a […]
Sociomateriality welcomes responsible researchers. Please proceed with extreme caution. What’s in a word? Sociomateriality advances the view that organisations, work, people and technology should be conceptualised as being inherently inseparable, rather than the once “taken-for-granted assumption” of separate entities (Orlikowski & Scott, 2008, p. 434). The term came to prominence after 2007, appearing in journals […]
My EdD thesis has the tentative title of The Professional Learning of Academics in Higher Education: A Sociomaterial Perspective. The title tips its hat towards an earlier study by Knight, Tait and Yorke (2006). It is not a simple case of just replacing ‘teachers’ with ‘academics’. There is an important point to be made here, […]
Oh my, it has been 7 months since my last blog post and 19 months since my last Pilgrim’s Progress Report! The Road to Hell… I had the best of intentions for using this blog to record my progress. Instead, I have kept a private journal (in Microsoft Word) of everything that has been happening […]
A few months ago a member of my EdD cohort had set up a WhatsApp group so that we could keep tabs with each other, ask questions, and generally offer support to each other as and when we needed it. A Rough Ride We all knew that the doctorate programme of study was not going […]
It has been quite a while since I have written a blog post. A lot has been happening EdD wise. My data collection activities kicked off in December 2015 and will soon draw to a close in July 2016 (fingers, toes and everything else crossed), I will write a future blog post about that. Suffice […]