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Narrative fiction has become an important site for exploring interiority and the complexities of self-reflection. The conscious separation o...

On Monday children in England returned to their classrooms for the first time since the 2021 lockdown was introduced. I knew that because I ...

  Apparently school in lockdown has arbitrary rules just like school in real life. I have it on good authority that one such rule is that yo...

I really enjoyed the Doing Data Differently project because it was a move out of my comfort zone and into the realms of educational data - a...

  An Online Colloquium 12th-19th November 2020 What does data do in education? What does it become? Why does data visualisation matter? What...

Having a personal library could well become a thing of the past - and it's certainly a luxury, a rarefied form of consumerism and someth...

I never met Gordon Wells in person, but as a long-standing admirer of his scholarship I was deeply moved to read about his tragic death. It ...

  I took up drawing again about a year ago - I say again because I haven't really done any since my teens. Armed with a pocket-sized ske...

Continuing on the theme of books that provoke surprising connections when read together I want to recommend pairing Marilyn Strathern...

I was advised not to write about neurodiversity by an expert, a well-respected colleague that I've worked with for a number of years. ...

Covid-19 has impacted on so many things - too many to list. And as it has progressed a whole new vocabulary has sprung up in its wake. If ...

Online multimodal communication seems to thrive when it's easy to use and experiment with. It's one of the more attractive feature...

There couldn't be a better time to believe in science, to trust that reading the RNA structure of Covid-19 is useful and to hope that ...

It's only natural to compare the new with the old, to compare new situations with those we've seen before. It gives a sense of persp...

These are strange times to be thinking about data. In the tightening grip of pandemic and amidst all the uncertainty there is a thirst for...

A long-established habit of mine is to have two books on the go at the same time. More often than not one of them will be fiction, but the...

The only time I met a king was when I was trekking in Zanskar in Northern India - and even that's not quite true because although his f...

Reading through the proofs of our new book Undoing the Digita l is an interesting experience that throws up a whole range of reactions and f...

If my name still counts for something it is in the way it associates with my passport number and my license plate. Increasingly I get the se...

In a recent piece for the London Review of Books writer James Meek satirises British political opinion as a division between those living...