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What are Rules Anyway?
I’ve been thinking a lot about rules. We are currently operating under Covid restrictions, we’ve had the “rule of 6”, constraints on business operations, reporting and testing regulations. Everyone is...
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2020 leisure
What a year. I have often done some kind of new year or birthday review blogpost. This year is really hard to cover, obviously dominated by the Covid-19 pandemic. This year at work has been like a...
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Turning 45
As I write this, Scotland has just announced a month-long lockdown and we’re awaiting a press conference about stronger restrictions in England. So mentioning that it’s my birthday tomorrow is the...
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Where we are with digital learning adoption
Blended and online learning is now a mainstream concept, after decades treated as a niche concern. There are so many voices in this space now, journalists, practitioners, researchers, policy makers. I...
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A New Chapter
After eight and a half years, it’s time for me to finish this chapter of my career and move on from the University of Warwick. A New Chapter I leave Warwick’s Academic Technology Service in good...
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New Vocabulary
Like many of us, in 2020 I found myself using words I’d used rarely or never before. Lockdown, quarantine, R rates, infection vectors. Like living in a disaster movie, we absorbed this bleak reality...
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A Wider Perspective
Over the last six months or so, I have been trying to get a fresh perspective. I have been particularly enjoying non-fiction, and I feel like this is a good time to reflect on some emerging themes....
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Systems Thinking
In a previous blog post I described the sorts of reading I’ve been doing to get a wider perspective while I’m on a career break. Confession. I’m still not sure if this thirst for learning is because...
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We all know that Covid has accelerated the adoption of digital services. I wrote some rambling posts back in September 2019 on themes around our digital lives: formats, privacy and presence. It all...
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My 2022 reading: making sense of stuff
Over the last year I’ve been busy working, reading, thinking and talking but I haven’t blogged. Back in October 2021 I blogged on my reading and then synthesised the systems thinking themes, with a...
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How we do change
I’ve been reading about change, and reflecting on my professional experiences in change programmes. I’m thinking about how we know when to change, how we collectively start to change, how we formally...
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Hope and Conditional Optimism
If you know me you’ll know I gobble up books. I’ve recently feasted on a few more so I thought I’d summarise a particular theme that runs through these: Hope! Collage of book covers (books also listed...
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