Thought Pieces

Short-term mindsets drain people of creativity and motivation. They make longer-term strategic visions fade into the background. Drawing on recent work, Paul Gentle examines the… Read More »“As long as your arm” Breaking free of a short-term mindset

‘A static body of knowledge on the shelf’ is how we might perceive the Humanities. But if we were to really look and examine the… Read More »Really looking

How to avoid the trappings of de-facto university language. Tom Scott, writer and university lecturer, examines the rise of Acabusinish, the unlovely hybrid of academic… Read More »Do you speak Acabusinish?

In conversation with Professor James Dunlop, Stuart Delves discovers how a metaphor can be used to decipher infinite ideas and mathematical complexities (and secure a… Read More »The ABC of Space

Kindness is as essential to our writing as the letters we type, and this is as true for higher education as it is for any… Read More »How kind are your words?