Kate is a doctoral researcher on the programme PhD in Higher Education: Research, Evaluation and Enhancement at Lancaster University. In this episode, Kate presents her research exploring students' perceptions of value for money in English Universities. Using Callon’s notion of performativity, she is investigating the extent to which students are cognizant of the market dynamics of English HE including the students as consumers narrative and how the national policies of value for money such...

Madi Ruby is a doctoral researcher on the programme PhD in Higher Education: Research, Evaluation and Enhancement at Lancaster University. In this episode, Madi presents the notion of humanistic management and how it can be applied in higher education. Contemporary management at universities is most typically conceptualised in line with the new public management, or neoliberal managerialism. These are seen as causing increased bureaucratisation of work, ever-rising workload, and staff...

In this inaugural episode, we are hosting Dr Kyungmee Lee. Kyungmee is a scholar of technology-enhanced learning at Lancaster University, and she has recently written two pieces for The Conversation sharing her tips with academics about online teaching. In these unprecedented times of the pandemic, most universities around the world shut their campuses and buildings, and moved their teaching and learning online. However, this is not so easy to do, and designing a proper online course normally...