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Adobe Express Living CV for Business Students Our students built personal Adobe Express web pages instead of writing the usual reflective assignment. The interesting part was to see how much personalisation and ownership students took over the finished product once the brief stopped asking for a document and started asking for something they would actually…
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I’m pleased to share that my article, “Constraining Innovation: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Power and Assessment Policy in Higher Education,” is now published in the Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education. The paper started life as an assignment on the doctoral programme at Lancaster University and became something I kept returning to, because…
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I am pleased to have been selected for the inaugural Adobe Higher Education Faculty Leader Cohort, one of a global group spanning 33 countries for 2026–27. Part of the year included a visit to Adobe’s headquarters in San Jose, where it was wonderful to meet students and educators from across the globe, as well as…
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Has knowledge been forgotten? Notes from Cambridge I had a wonderful couple of days at Jesus College, Cambridge, for the 8th Cambridge Symposium on Knowledge in Education. I was very pleased to have the opportunity to share my research with colleagues who have inspired my work. Thank you to Leesa Wheelahan and Johan Muller, who…
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I presented this research at the Assessment in Higher Education Conference in Manchester last week. It’s an annual gathering of people who think seriously about assessment, which meant the questions were sharp and the disagreements were productive. I’ve written up the argument below, and attached the one-pager I took into the room. I’ve spent the…
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This week I led a session for the Manchester Metropolitan University Digital Futures Community of Practice on the theme of digital skills. I wanted to share some of what came out of it, because the conversation was realy rich and I think it surfaces some things the sector needs to sit with. I started with…
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Our second I-TELL Show and Tell webinar shifted the spotlight onto two complementary themes: making learning visible over time, and creating immersive spaces that extend what a business school experience can look and feel like for students and partners. Vincent Pattison: using Miro as a long-format learning space We welcomed Vincent Pattison (Manchester Fashion Institute),…
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Our first I-TELL Show and Tell webinar set a strong foundation for the series, bringing colleagues together to explore practical approaches that strengthen learning, creativity, and student belonging. Tony Morgan from Leeds University opened the session with an engaging overview of diverge and converge techniques. His focus was how structured creative processes can support more…
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This post builds on work by Willingham, Karpicke and Blunt, Bjork, Wheelahan, Chi and colleagues, and the practical guidance of Sherrington, Jones and Hendrick. Business Schools talk a lot about creativity, innovation and experiential learning. Yet none of these thrive unless students can recall core concepts and frameworks with ease. Retrieval practice offers a practical…
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I am pleased to share the recording of my recent presentation, delivered as part of the Open University’s Cross University Scholarship Seminar Series: Enhancing Student Success, which took place from 30 June to 7 July 2025. The series brought together colleagues from the Open University, Manchester Metropolitan, Cardiff, and Lancaster Universities to explore innovative approaches…
Structured Creativity 