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Richard Watermeyer
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Dad of Three | Sociologist | Professor of Higher Education at University of Bristol | Co-Director of CHET | West Ham Season TH | Wannabe Surfer | Half Saffa
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Should Generative AI tools be used for the UK’s REF? Have your say here: tinyurl.com/4ca8h2rm

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Should Generative AI tools be used for the REF?
This survey is intended to collect views from across the UK higher education community as to whether generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools should be used for Research Excellence Framework (...
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May 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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⏰Get your tickets today!

Join us for our sixth seminar “The death of prestige: disbanding a rankings imperative” with Leslie Gonzales, Michelle Stack, Georgiana Mihut, PhD and Camille B. Kandiko Howson.

📅Date: Wed, March 26th
🕐Time: 1:00 p.m. (GMT)
📍ONLINE

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March 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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WHO SHOULD LEAD UK UNIVERSITIES?

📢 All UK academics and professional services staff, there is still time to provide your views on who you think is best placed for Vice-Chancellor roles by completing this short survey (est. 10 minutes completion time): tinyurl.com/3xsbjwwa
Who should lead universities?
This survey is intended to collect views from across the UK higher education community on whether academics or non-academics are best placed to lead UK universities.
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February 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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📢 All UK academics and professional services staff: WHO DO YOU THINK SHOULD LEAD UK UNIVERSITIES? Please provide your views on whether academics or non-academics are best placed for Vice-Chancellor roles by completing this short survey (est. 10 minutes completion time): tinyurl.com/3xsbjwwa
Who should lead universities?
This survey is intended to collect views from across the UK higher education community on whether academics or non-academics are best placed to lead UK universities.
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February 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Interesting post from @lsebr.bsky.social @andresbafer.bsky.social Christopher Neilson & Seth Zimmerman suggesting that who you know is, is more important than what you know at elite higher education institutions

#AcademicSky #HigherEducation blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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February 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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51% of people in the UK know “not much or very little” about what their local university is actually for, which contrasts with many institutions' confident rhetoric about their central place in 'the community'. universityappg.co.uk/resources/re...
Understanding the knowledge gap: public perceptions of UK universities | APPG
Research we commissioned from Public First shows that parents want their children to go to university, but there’s a knowledge gap between the public and higher education institutions.
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December 18, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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Come work with @alinecourtois.bsky.social @rachelbrooks.bsky.social & myself on a new Open Research Area project, ‘Virtual Mobilities of International Students: towards a new model for the internationalisation of higher education?'

www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

Deadline: 5 Jan 2025

Pls repost!
CH12254 Research Assistant/Research Associate - Jobs at Bath
Research Assistant/ Research Associate
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December 11, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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Fantastic opportunity to join the @instituteforgov.bsky.social as a researcher - please flag to all the brilliant people you know! www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/about-us/car...
Researcher | Institute for Government
We are inviting applications for researchers, to start as soon as notice periods allow.
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December 12, 2024 at 10:58 AM
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Academics' weak(ening) resistance to Generative AI tools: link.springer.com/article/10.1... New from @donnalanclos.com @lawriephipps.bsky.social Hanne Shapiro @danielleguizzo.bsky.social @cathryn-knight.bsky.social and me.
Academics’ Weak(ening) Resistance to Generative AI: The Cause and Cost of Prestige? - Postdigital Science and Education
The disruptive potential of generative AI (GenAI) tools to academic labour is potentially vast. Yet as we argue herein, such tools also represent a continuation of the inequities inherent to academia’...
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December 3, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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⏰Get your tickets today!

Join @davidstaley8.bsky.social @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social Darren Moon and @jkom.bsky.social on Dec 11th at 1:00 p.m. (GMT) for our next online seminar “The reshaping of #HigherEd by #DigitalTech”.

🔗Register here ▶ shorturl.at/ifwnA

#HigherEducation #Digitalisation #AI
November 28, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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November 27, 2024 at 8:42 AM
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Great to see The Centre for Higher Education Transformations (CHET) now on Bluesky @chet-bristol.bsky.social
November 22, 2024 at 9:52 AM
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Looking forward to this @chet-bristol.bsky.social and IoE CHES seminar on HE internationalisation with amazing speakers Hans de Wit, Malcolm Tight, Jenna Mittelmeier and Catherine Montgomery. All details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/undoing-in...
Undoing internationalisation?
Eventbrite - Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET presents Undoing internationalisation? - Wednesday, November 27, 2024 - Find event and ticket information.
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November 22, 2024 at 9:50 AM
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Do we need a league table of scholars produced by Silicon Valley?: wonkhe.com/blogs/do-we-... New from @lawriephipps.bsky.social @donnalanclos.com and me in today’s @wonkhe.bsky.social.
Do we need a league table of scholars produced by Silicon Valley?
For Lawrie Phipps, Donna Lanclos, and Richard Watermayer a new ranking of individual academics is a troubling development in a changing academic landscape
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November 21, 2024 at 9:55 AM
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NEW on Wonkhe: For Lawrie Phipps, Donna Lanclos, and Richard Watermayer a new ranking of individual academics is a troubling development in a changing academic landscape https://buff.ly/4eLzJyF
November 21, 2024 at 7:20 AM
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Are professors "Intellectual Leaders"?
📢 Calling all Associate & Full Professors, working in any discipline/university in the world. What are the opportunities & barriers you face as providers of 'intellectual leadership'? Please complete/circulate this important global survey: tinyurl.com/25jtcabf
November 20, 2024 at 2:08 PM