UKRI project to support book publishers to transition to open access models, especially learned society, subject association, and smaller specialist publishers. uksg.org/newsletter/uks… Geraint Rees Kurt Deketelaere @uclpress UCL Open Science and Scholarship Tiberius Ignat Ignasi Labastida Wouter Schallier

Great seeing this Centre for Global Higher Education report out! Lots of insights for those interested in the digital economy of HE.

VS theme call! 'Comparing, categorizing, valuating: entangled modes of ordering' -- edited by Thomas Müller, Leopold Ringel, Elisa Ronzheimer and Jørgen Sneis valuationstudies.liu.se/Comparing_cate…

' Hvad nu, hvis aktører i den danske folkeskole kort og godt besluttede sig for at bryde med de amerikanske tech-giganter om skolens og velfærdssamfundets digitale fremtid?' ... Lucas Cone skriver i Altinget - altinget.dk/kommunal/artik…

Interesting piece by Morten Hansen, Teaching Assistant at IIPP, on the importance of writing from a teacher's perspective. He asks 'what does the usage of automated reasoning do to the student experience?'

Read his reflective piece here: kingsdh.net/2023/12/11/poc…

I wrote about writing👇🖊️👇

Hey friends!

Devika Dutt and I are teaching our Decolonising Economics module for the first time this term (inspired by our book with Carolina Alves and Surbhi Kesar).

In case anyone's interested, we've made the syllabus publicly available 😊

ingridhk.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/6yyd00…

The Cable Wars undersea chessboard in one map👇

⚠️Trans-Atlantic financial information exchange via fiber optic cable encompasses $10 trillion per day

We are now open to Special Issue Proposals!

Have an exciting, engaging new insight that you would like to share with the Sociology audience? Submit now!

Deadline 3 October 2023

Details below!
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What role should governing bodies have in academic governance and assurance? I’m speaking today at the CDBU conference Whose Universities? I’ll be building on my earlier Higher Education Policy Institute Policy Note and blog hepi.ac.uk/2023/01/17/how…

Sorry for the cliché, but #TheDawnOfEverything (David Graeber and David Wengrow) really is a book that everyone should read.
Completely changed my view of human history and consequently of what we are capable of building together in the future.

Venture capital investment into defence tech companies has boomed in recent years on hope of US gov contracts. US investment in defence start-ups surged from less than $16bn in 2019 to $33bn in 2023, PitchBook data shows.
ft.com/content/45da39…

Callon's Ode to Markets.

My review of 'Markets in the Making'

Have a look if interested in values, commodities, and everything in between 👇

journals-sagepub-com.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/doi/epub/10.11…

💥 Brighteye Fund II - it's official! 💥

We're excited to share that we've closed our second fund at €100M, double the size of the first fund, taking our total AUM to invest in promising early-stage #Edtech companies across Europe to €150M 🚀

▶️ bit.ly/3XhH9mm

Our ESRC-funded project, ‘Universities and Unicorns: building digital assets in the higher education industry’ is coming to an end. Join us at our ‘end of project’ webinar series on 22 June: tinyurl.com/2p8v5kpa

What the Wonkhe piece does so well - building off this NY Times piece the other week - is show how “entrepreneurial” providers can in reality navigate around the regulations in England. nytimes.com/2023/06/05/wor…

New article:
Australia's $40 billion of education exports is a statistical trick
You've heard Australia exports billions in education services, but you won't believe where this number comes from

fresheconomicthinking.com/p/australias-4…

Today we presented on the value of web archives for unravelling what we call 'API Governance'✨, or the technicity of platform governance at the Governing the Digital Society symposium on Platform Observability. Read the paper (open access) here: doi.org/10.1177/205630… cf #resaw2023

A scathing critique of Professor Calkins and balanced literacy nytimes.com/2023/06/06/pod…

Delighted to announce the publication of our new open-access volume, 'How Computers Entered the Classroom, 1960-2000,' co-edited by yours truly and the brilliant Carmen Flury. Dive into the captivating history of computerization in European education. degruyter.com/document/doi/1…