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25 June 2026
3 minutes to readTeaching by Stepping Aside: Rethinking Pedagogical Presence in an Age of AI
In this post, I reflect on how submitting my ASPIRE PRP fellowship application forced me to rethink the educator’s role – arguing that true engagement emerges not from being the smartest person in the room, but from strategically stepping aside. Through my use of Perusall and Edstem, which enable pre-seminar collaboration and…
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11 June 2026
5 minutes to readMethods for teaching methods: reflections on sparking ‘aha’ moments
While the teaching of research methods is core to social science and cognate disciplines, pedagogic attention to research methods education has been conspicuously lacking. In this post, I reflect on the publication of a recent National Centre for Research Methods resource (including my contribution to it) designed to buck that trend and…
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7 May 2026
5 minutes to readTaking transformative learning into the workplace: the role of field courses
Drawing on academic debates and new teaching practices at Exeter, this article explores the potential employability benefits of engaging learners with transformative field-based teaching. Whilst Geography is a primary focus for this discussion, I suggest that the ideas may resonate across other field-based disciplines. What do we mean by ‘employability’? Employability is…
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30 April 2026
4 minutes to readHow published research can shape scaffolded learning for safer prescribing
This post reflects on how two strands of published research on medicine safety were used to design scaffolded learning for safer prescribing. Drawing on work in pharmacovigilance and pharmacogenetics, it shows how research can be translated into case-based learning that helps learners interpret uncertainty, discuss medication-related risk clearly, and make more reasoned…
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