I've recently run sessions for summer school students from China and the US on public health. Occasionally you can get gasps from studen...

There's a wonderful event happening in Manchester at the moment. The Bound and Infinity bookshop in Tib Street is hosting a number of fr...

As I'm turning my attention towards the topic of "work" (and turning away from "education"), I'm concerned that ...

This is a follow-on from my previous post about the fate of transdisciplinary scholarship in the present academy. That perhaps sounded like ...

The humanities exhibit various patterns of academic practice in today's university, but the most irritating is the "hunt for explan...

I've been very interested to watch the launch of the World Flourishing report from Harvard yesterday. The Guardian picked one of the hea...

I'm in Seoul at the moment, on an "AI Tour" of East Asia in Hong Kong, Zhuhai (China), Seoul and Taiwan. Having spent a couple...