Morten Hansen

Big new 'campus':

Greenwich and Kent announce merger to form 'super-university' Universities are facing ongoing financial worries, with the regulator saying other mergers could follow.

Big uni news in Southeast England:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....

Child & Teen Consumption Conference Child & Teen Consumption conference will be held from 22 to 24 April 2026 at King’s College London.

🧸 Is childhood intensifying or eroding? This question will guide the 2026 Child & Teen Consumption conference at King’s.

Contributions are invited on themes like agency in digital economy, sustainability and climate crisis, and changing institutions of childhood. Deadline: 22 August 2025 🔽

A philosopher & a child debate God & the universe YouTube video by Phil Halper (aka Skydivephil)

youtu.be/xSZ5e7zPLcs?...

Child & Teen Consumption Conference, 22 - 24 April 2026 King's College London, 22 - 24 April 2026

📣 CFP now open! Is childhood intensifying or eroding? Join the 2026 Child & Teen Consumption conference at King’s College London (22–24 April)

📝 Submit by 22 Aug 2025
🔗 ctcc-2026.kcl.ac.uk

#ChildhoodStudies #DigitalCulture #CFP

I've noticed that also. Wonderful that this is getting some scholarly attention.

A very quiet congrats 🤫😊

NEW on Wonkhe: Poor-quality teaching and student outcomes. But where? bit.ly/4jmeUMH

The preprint can be accessed here for those who don't subscribe to the journal: kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files...

An ed-tech tragedy? Educational technologies and school closures in the time of COVID-19 - International Review of Education International Review of Education -

I really enjoyed writing this review of the important UNESCO book 'An Ed-Tech Tragedy?'

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Number of registered providers.

There’s now a record number of providers on the OfS register. Laine Theatre Arts join quite a number of providers offering musical theatre degrees. As an ‘approved’ provider Laine doesn’t have a fee limit - so charges £21829.50 per academic year (students can access a £6,000 loan).

Private international foundation courses, and what they say about university leadership by Morten Hansen My research on the history of private international pathway providers and their public alternatives shows how some universities have stopped believing in themselves. Reversing this…

Private international foundation courses, and what they say about university leadership srheblog.com/2025/05/06/p...

Students on bicycles #TourdeStrasbourg 🚴

Media kit in English 🇬🇧

Download here: turadostrazbura.rs/media/2025/0...

Exciting! 🎉🍾

✍️ A new report authored by Dr @rikkeamundsen.bsky.social in @kingsdh.bsky.social calls for more nuanced understandings of sexual consent, especially when digital technologies are involved.

📱 Explore the report's top five recommendations here 👇

Pace back and forth really fast when presenting, and time will slow down (Einstein etc)

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

This is such a bonkers story: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A student vlogger recording in front of a camera.

👀ICYMI: @jelena3121.bsky.social, @askebos.bsky.social & @mortenhansen.bsky.social on what students actually think about university rankings

👇 blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

#THErankings #QSrankings

Hi. I'm sharing a pre-print by @anavaldi.bsky.social and me that is gaining traction @ssrn.bsky.social.

Critical minerals policies are generating pressures to create 'technological peripheries' in both the South and North. We look at Chile and Spain.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Happy to have this paper out in HE. Do have a look if you are interested in the relationship between public and private higher education, and how to reverse outsourcing once it has happened.

link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

Join us for a public talk on "Hegel in Cyberspace" with Katherine Everitt!

📅 March 5, 4–6 PM
📍 King’s College London (Strand Campus)
🍷 Free drinks included
🔗 Sign up now: buff.ly/4hXfrVo

#Philosophy #DigitalHumanities #Hegel #AcademicEvents #KingsCollegeLondon

If you bookmarked "Rankings are all bullsh*t anyway, why not do my own?" but did not get to read it yet, worry not, we've got you covered with a short blog post about it

Bonus track: there is a video by one of our vloggers in it 🤩

Huge congratulations to @wstronge.bsky.social & @helenhester.bsky.social on this masterpiece. Lots of political shifts (to put it mildly) since this book was conceived & it’s more important than ever…#postwork @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social

‘Rankings are all bullsh*t anyway, why not do my own?’: Vloggers and genre remediation

What do student vloggers have to say about #rankings?
What does gossip have to do with subversion?
And what do Hufflepuffs have to do with any of this?

Of this & more in our new paper: ‘Rankings are all bullsh*t anyway, why not do my own?’

👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What is ‘critical’ in critical studies of edtech? - Education Technology Society There is growing interest in critical studies of education and technology. But what does it mean to be ‘critical’ of edtech, and how can this work genuinely make a difference in the world? Felici...

What does being 'critical' about edtech mean? Listen to my interview with Felicitas Macgilchrist about the need to examine the messiness of edtech, highlight untold stories of 'other' edtechs, dig deep into context, and the power of rage-driven hope! www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...

Generative AI is a hinge point for higher education Decisions taken now around how generative AI is used by academics and universities will shape the future of research. Mark Carrigan argues whilst optimistic scenarios are possible, generative AI st…

Interesting reflections on GAI and research by Mark Carrigan

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...