One last Hurrah!

After almost 15 years, I am leaving my university post and taking a step back from the academy. Or at least the organised type of academia you find at Higher Education institutions these days, because obviously I’m still somewhat invested in ‘academia’ – since it IS in the name of this blog 😉

Since developing and running workshops is one of my favourite things to do, I decided to ‘go out’ with one last Hurrah (to be honest, I’m hoping it won’t exactly be a ‘last’ anything, but it feels like a goodbye in many ways). Therefore I am preparing a new workshop to my roster as the last event I’ll do at my current university, which will be a playful networking workshop exploring collaboration in HE. We will co-create the event by collating resources, sharing challenges and doing our best to avoid the silo alarm…

(I actually called it ‘Silo Alarm’, but for some reason the person in charge of putting it online for the university renamed it… oh well)

If that sounds like fun, and you have time to come to Stoke-on-Trent on 21st June, sign up here and join us!

Collaboration in HE is very close to my heart, because over the last 15 years, I’ve run workshops for (and taught) all sorts of different disciplines: studio-based creatives (from Animation to Surface Pattern design), accounting to medicine, and for some reason lots of sociologists, as well as PhD candidates and Early Career Researchers investigating a multitude of topics, and one of the things they all had in common was that they felt isolated in their discipline. So let’s do something about that!

Can’t make that date (or missed it)?

Fear not, you could always check out the other workshops I offer/have run, and hire me to run one for you! I have done a bit of an update of my workshop page, so please have a look if you need somebody to deliver a few hours to a few days of playful, creative fun. If you can’t find what you’re after thematically, get in touch to have a chat about a bespoke option – a custom workshop just for you!