Ian Robson
@ianrobsons.bsky.social
PhD | Associate Professor | Northumbria University, UK / Methodology | Creative & participatory inquiry in communities / artist / adoptive parent / game-player.
Session w/ students on the MA in Childhood &Early Years Studies on feminisms & childhoods. 👉🏽theory-action as troubling, materiality & embodiment, & the challenge to thinking about positionality, policy & practice as never neutral. www.northumbria.ac.uk/study-at-nor... @northumbriauni.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Session w/ students on the MA in Childhood &Early Years Studies on feminisms & childhoods. 👉🏽theory-action as troubling, materiality & embodiment, & the challenge to thinking about positionality, policy & practice as never neutral. www.northumbria.ac.uk/study-at-nor... @northumbriauni.bsky.social
Joining colleagues from the NIHR Innovation Observatory and Edinburgh University at today’s Horizon Scanning and Innovations for Health in Coastal Communities held at Edinburgh Futures Institute. We’re looking at research innovation capacity and capabilities, a subject I am passionate about! 👁️👂🏼🌊
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Joining colleagues from the NIHR Innovation Observatory and Edinburgh University at today’s Horizon Scanning and Innovations for Health in Coastal Communities held at Edinburgh Futures Institute. We’re looking at research innovation capacity and capabilities, a subject I am passionate about! 👁️👂🏼🌊
Got a #teaching session coming up that gives me a chance to do something new with @northumbriauni.bsky.social Professional Doctorate students (www.northumbria.ac.uk/study-at-nor...). #Art installation and textual propositions to encounter Deleuze’s #concepts. These cards are some examples.
October 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Got a #teaching session coming up that gives me a chance to do something new with @northumbriauni.bsky.social Professional Doctorate students (www.northumbria.ac.uk/study-at-nor...). #Art installation and textual propositions to encounter Deleuze’s #concepts. These cards are some examples.
I often find “going away” to workshops and conferences hard work socially, but the recent #ESRC funded RE:PLAY workshop for learning designers was great. Investigating #playfullearning in Higher Education. In this case, developing a design process and resources for educators.
October 2, 2025 at 6:51 AM
I often find “going away” to workshops and conferences hard work socially, but the recent #ESRC funded RE:PLAY workshop for learning designers was great. Investigating #playfullearning in Higher Education. In this case, developing a design process and resources for educators.
Setting off later in the UK’s first Playful Learning in Higher Education study. @nicwhitton.bsky.social leading wonderfully as Principal. We will be co-designing the Playful Learning design process and resources for designers with colleagues from across the country. Woop! 🙌
September 28, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Setting off later in the UK’s first Playful Learning in Higher Education study. @nicwhitton.bsky.social leading wonderfully as Principal. We will be co-designing the Playful Learning design process and resources for designers with colleagues from across the country. Woop! 🙌
What a great time participating/ speaking at this today. Organised by Petra Makela and colleagues.
September 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
What a great time participating/ speaking at this today. Organised by Petra Makela and colleagues.
July 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Reached peak teaching experience today covering questions of ontology and epistemology with Donkey Kong. He has so much to teach us. #teachingandlearning #highereducation @northumbriauni.bsky.social
April 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Reached peak teaching experience today covering questions of ontology and epistemology with Donkey Kong. He has so much to teach us. #teachingandlearning #highereducation @northumbriauni.bsky.social
Off to teach and learn with professional doctorate students this weekend. My module is about your workplace as a site of research. I work especially hard to help them make their work environment strange. Love it. @northumbriauni.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Off to teach and learn with professional doctorate students this weekend. My module is about your workplace as a site of research. I work especially hard to help them make their work environment strange. Love it. @northumbriauni.bsky.social
Had a small part in the project but get hold of this new book built on excellent scholarship. We HAVE to look to alternatives to giving up to poverty and tweaking unjust systems. 👉🏾 policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/basic-income #basicincome #poverty #publicpolicy
April 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Had a small part in the project but get hold of this new book built on excellent scholarship. We HAVE to look to alternatives to giving up to poverty and tweaking unjust systems. 👉🏾 policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/basic-income #basicincome #poverty #publicpolicy
Some playful bird related art from my studio last night. Create something today. #painting #creativity #joy
April 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Some playful bird related art from my studio last night. Create something today. #painting #creativity #joy
Studio messing about.
March 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Studio messing about.
Thanks @northumbrialibrary.bsky.social for adding this book to your collection. Loving it, and it will be so helpful to my research. #libraries #deleuze #design
March 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Thanks @northumbrialibrary.bsky.social for adding this book to your collection. Loving it, and it will be so helpful to my research. #libraries #deleuze #design
Great plotting with Insights NE about a participatory action research project I’m shaping up for social housing partners. Want to mix up bureaucratic thinking with Deleuzian concepts and board game geeks. Of course.
March 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Great plotting with Insights NE about a participatory action research project I’m shaping up for social housing partners. Want to mix up bureaucratic thinking with Deleuzian concepts and board game geeks. Of course.
So pleased I can run my studio practice in my own time. It acts as a constant provocation to my academic work, and the black hole of bureaucracy. #innovation #academia #practice
March 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
So pleased I can run my studio practice in my own time. It acts as a constant provocation to my academic work, and the black hole of bureaucracy. #innovation #academia #practice
The sun is out so we NEED to get a pint in. 😉
March 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The sun is out so we NEED to get a pint in. 😉
February 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Ah, the irony of having to remix my own proposal about remixing public design practices. Always good to taste your own medicine, will make for a better research bid…
February 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Ah, the irony of having to remix my own proposal about remixing public design practices. Always good to taste your own medicine, will make for a better research bid…
I am drafting notes for a prospective Arts & Humanities Research Council project using my new red #ink. Let you eyes rest upon its amazingness. That is all, carry on.
February 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I am drafting notes for a prospective Arts & Humanities Research Council project using my new red #ink. Let you eyes rest upon its amazingness. That is all, carry on.
Parrot/back lane event.
February 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Parrot/back lane event.
Apparently, i’ve got to read all these books I get hold of. @northumbrialibrary.bsky.social 😉👍🏽
February 13, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Apparently, i’ve got to read all these books I get hold of. @northumbrialibrary.bsky.social 😉👍🏽
Creating a framework for a forthcoming project with experts by experience (those living with persistent #pain symptoms) on reinventing community support. 3 steps: “my experience”, “How, what and where?”, & “Even better if”. Genuine #co-production, so details will emerge as we work with residents.
February 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Creating a framework for a forthcoming project with experts by experience (those living with persistent #pain symptoms) on reinventing community support. 3 steps: “my experience”, “How, what and where?”, & “Even better if”. Genuine #co-production, so details will emerge as we work with residents.