Anarchy in the H.E.

Dr Nick Mount is Academic Director at the University of Nottingham Online. This is a strategic role which heads the University’s multi-million pound investment in online learning for all.

By trade, Nick is a physical geographer and Associate Professor of Hydroinformatics. He has worked far and wide striving for sustainable peace through socio-physical-political systems.

Nick is also an established folk musician, having played guitar for Northampton’s now dis-banded folk band The Cordwainers.

Join us as Nick gives us his views and perspectives on curriculum design, digital learning, and a future of micro-credential learning.

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Mike Pascoe PhD teaches anatomy at the University of Colorado, USA. This is his passion. Mike talks about his neurophysiology education and transition into Physical Therapy programs, and tells us about his innovative research and teaching practice with innovative ways of helping students learn. 

Elena Rocca is a researcher specialising in issues at the interface between scientific evidence, practice, policy and philosophy. Elena has a multi-disciplinary background that includes Pharmacy (MSc), Molecular Medicine (PhD) and Philosophy/Ethics of Science (post-doctoral experience and collaborative research).

She is particularly interested in responsible science-based decision-making and in the conceptual premises of sustainability in biotechnology, medicine and innovation. She has a specific focus on risk and safety of new biotechnologies, both from a practical, methodological and philosophical perspective.

Elena is also interested in educating young practitioners and researchers to interdisciplinarity, starting from a critical understanding of their own and others’ basic assumptions.

Join us now as Elena discusses her experiences developing interdisciplinary courses and the importance of critical thinking in higher education.

There is more to education than teaching and learning! Says Tim Ingold, a British Anthropologist, and now Emeritus Professor and the University of Aberdeen. 

In his book "Anthropology and/as Education",  Tim Ingold argues that both anthropology and education are ways of studying, and of leading life, with others. 

 Education, he contends, is not the transmission of authorised knowledge from one generation to the next but a way of attending to things, opening up paths of growth and discovery. What does this mean for the ways we think about study and the school, teaching and learning, and the freedoms they exemplify? And how does it bear on the practices of participation and observation, on ways of study in the field and in the school, on art and science, research and teaching, and the university?

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For the anthropologically-minded, have a listen to Tim's engaging YouTube lectures:

Lisa Kelly is an English Lecturer currently researching the way we frame Higher Education as a consumer experience. 

In Lisa's own words: "The idea of ensuring a level of quality in our provision comes from an aspirational and well-meaning place. However some of these aspects are not compatible with a fully engaged learning process and lead to problematic scenarios where intent and expectation do not meet."

Lisa teaches in H.E. in a Further Education College setting and will also discuss the ups and downs of this.

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Dr F Scott Feil is concerned about the rising costs of healthcare education. Listen to our conversation about his journey in higher education and his thoughts on a future of healthcare education.

Dr. F Scott Feil is a physical therapist and educator focused on improving the lives of individuals in the geriatric space. He began his career in 2007 as a traveling physical therapist taking contracts in Texas, Hawaii and North Carolina.

In 2008, Dr. Feil began the outpatient therapist portion of his career as a worker’s compensation physical therapist for seven years. He then spent three years in Waco, Texas working in home health and skilled nursing facilities. He subsequently completed his Doctor of Education (EdD) at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences (USAHS) in 2018.

He began teaching at USAHS in September 2020. Dr. Feil’s teaching experience also includes one year as an adjunct professor for geriatrics and advanced movement analysis courses for Baylor University’s Doctor of Physical Therapy program.

Dr Paul Greatrix is the Registrar at University of Nottingham and a bit of a punk. Well, he likes The Stranglers and The Fall, and has 14 years of blogging about hot H.E. matters at least. 

Listen to our conversation about a wide range of H.E. matters including Paul's story of his time in the higher echelons of H.E. and his thoughts on regulation, league tables and essay mills.

This month we talk with Alex Broadbent about the future of knowledge!

Alex Broadbent PhD is founding Director of the Institute for the Future of Knowledge, Professor of Philosophy, and Associate Member of the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at the University of Johannesburg. His research is in the philosophy of epidemiology, medicine, and causation, and he is Editor in Chief of the journal Philosophy of Medicine. Outside university life, he engages in consultancy, advocacy and policy work related to public health and uses of science in legal contexts, and writes opinion pieces on topics such as the fourth industrial revolution and public health issues. He is an Associate Member of the Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society at Durham University and of Millennium Chambers, The Barrister Network, London.

Alex is also director of The Institute for the Future of Knowledge (IFK) which is a cross-disciplinary ecosystem at the University of Johannesburg, devoted to understanding the relationship between what we know and what will happen, for the purpose of improving both. The future is an ancient concern. Recent advances in computational abilities promise improved predictive performance, yet global events have proven to be resiliently unpredictable. The University of Johannesburg established the IFK to further its championing of a future-oriented focus for South Africa and the wider region.

Join us as Alex discusses his thoughts on the future of knowledge, health, medicine, and higher education.

Welcome to the very first episode of Anarchy in the H.E.! To get us well and truly started we have Joost van Wijchen from HAN University of Applied Sciences in Nijmegen the Netherlands.

Joost is senior lecturer, educational designer, physiotherapist and health professional. Joost is famous for developing the rebellious Delta-Stream physiotherapy programme at HAN and here he talks all about his journey in Higher Education, and how he came about to develop this ground-breaking programme. And more!

Here are Joost’s chosen PUNK SONGS: