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Thoughts on: Optimising the Potential of Third Space Professionals in Higher Education (Whitchurch, 2010)

2010 was a bit of a banner year for Celia Whitchurch as we continue this journey following the development of her work on the Third Space (3S) in Higher Education. (I write Third Space way […]

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Take two – New thoughts on Shifting Identities and Blurring Boundaries: the Emergence of Third Space Professionals in UK Higher Education (Whitchurch, 2008)

I find myself returning to what might be considered the source for discussion of ‘third space’ workers in Higher Education after first exploring it 7 years ago in this post. (As it happens, earlier today […]

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Ed tech must reads: column #57

First published in Campus Morning Mail 18th Oct 2022 Compared to what? Effects of social and temporal comparison standards of feedback in an e-learning context from International Journal of Education Technology in Higher Education This […]

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Ed tech must reads: column #56

First published in Campus Morning Mail 11th Oct 2022 How Conducting a Mixed-mode Class is Similar to Hosting a Late-night Talk Show from Faculty Focus There is a theatrical element to good teaching in person […]

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Ed tech must reads: column #55

First published in Campus Morning Mail 4th Oct 2022 Should online learning have its own learning theories? from Tim Fawns A slightly philosophical start to the CMM week with this question from Edinburgh Uni digital […]

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Research update #63: Where to put theory in the thesis

Hi everyone with an interest in Research – I’ve spent a few days poring over theses related to edvisor themes trying to work out how people talk about theory (and methods) and where they actually […]

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Thoughts on: A short guide to ontology and epistemology: Why everyone should be a critical realist (Fryer, 2020)

Six years into my PhD, you might hope that I was broadly across the various worldviews and philosophies that underpin different approaches to research. And broadly speaking I think I am. I would say that […]

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Research update #44: Proposal writing Day 8&9 – Why use just one theoretical framework?

Why not use three? The last two days have been spent discussing how the different facets of my research into how the roles and value of edvisors in Higher Ed (I have been vacillating between […]

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Week #3 SOCRMx – Discourse Analysis

When I first stumbled across Foucault in some paper since cast to the depths of my mind, my immediate response was that it was wanky and unhelpful theoretical tosh. I’ll admit that I struggled to […]

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Thoughts on two papers about Sociomaterial theory by Orlikowski (2007 & 2010)

Maybe it’s two papers or maybe it’s a paper and an essay – but they’re both published in journals so I think they should be considered valuable in terms of my lit review. I think […]

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