Writing
A reflection on sympoiesis and what it means to think without bounded individuals "Nothing makes itself; nothing is really autopoietic or self-organizing." This simple statement from Donna Haraway's chapter on sympoiesis carries a radical challenge that keeps unfolding the more I sit with it. It'
Teaching Practices
A field note on building a portfolio approach that asks students to develop ethical analysis through cultural engagement—not just case studies I'm launching a new assessment this term for Ethical Practice and Behaviours with my second year HRM students, and it builds directly on my earlier thinking
Writing
Explore media-making as sense-making pedagogy: how students creating podcasts, zines, and videos develops collaborative knowledge creation.
Writing
UK business schools optimise for metrics, not imagination. Teaching Otherwise calls for disruption: creative pedagogy, futures literacy, and ethical learning.
Teaching Practices
A teaching practice using film and TV to explore how workplace diversity is represented across time.
Teaching Practices
Analyse workplace culture through popular media. From The Office to The Circle, learn how films and TV reveal changing workplace ideologies and what alternatives might be possible.
Writing
Most sustainability teaching in business schools operates within "corporate sustainability solutionism"—we tick boxes about the SDGs while the house burns. Dallyn et al offer something different: literal compost bins as curriculum, connecting students with soil and the slow work of decomposition.
Writing
The term is over. Now comes this different time - not exactly rest, but expansion. I've been carrying fragments all year - ideas that sparked during workshops, questions from conversations, provocations from reading. Summer lets me spread these fragments out, see what connects.
Teaching Practices
Students discover priorities through physical objects, then use assessment tools and group work to build ethical decision-making skills.
Writing
Understanding the Sustainability Mindset The Sustainability Mindset Indicator (SMI) assesses how we think, feel, and act in relation to our planetary moment. Rather than measuring knowledge about environmental issues, it explores the deeper patterns of consciousness that shape how we engage with complexity, uncertainty, and our interconnected challenges. At its
Teaching Practices
Spend the entire session outdoors helping students develop genuine connection to the environment. This practice grounds students in place to understand why sustainability matters through felt experience rather than abstract concepts.
Teaching Practices
Using magazine images and collaborative collaging to explore complex concepts through visual thinking. Reveals insights that analytical writing might miss, allowing students to hold complexity without immediate resolution. Works for any subject.
