Deputy director (engagement, HE) at Jisc. Interested in innovation, change, leadership, technology; passionate about cricket, rugby, cycling, food & mountains.
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Joined August 2008
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How is digital technology creating impact in HE institutions today? Nick Skelton looks at how digital can make improve student experience and create growth opportunities 🧑🎓 jisc.ac.uk/blog/how-higher-e…
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Thanks to the hard work of the sector and the negotiations team, UK universities have reached an agreement with Elsevier that provides both unlimited open access publishing and access to paywalled journal articles jisc.ac.uk/news/jisc-respons…
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New research by me and @SnellJulia now published in @Language_In_Soc: ‘The (white) ears of Ofsted: a raciolinguistic perspective on the listening practices of the schools inspectorate’. It’s available open access and here’s a thread summarising the work. tinyurl.com/2p8jwpsx
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"London.Toronto.Shenyang. Bucharest". Britain's tennis superstar, who came to Bromley aged 2, exemplifies a rising 'melting pot generation' in 21st century Britain. With mixed ethnic heritage, plural identities can simply reflect lived experience of extended family relationships
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.@JohnOBrienEDU in today’s #Digifest21 opening keynote compares leadership in the immediacy of the pandemic as a ‘murmuration’ and depicts the #PivotToOnline in one image.
The myth of the pace of change in HE as glacial is also challenged.
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My midnight @Jisc #DIGIFEST21 presentation in the UK had so many questions at the end that the producers extended the session by 15 mins! Thank you SO MUCH to all the awesome folks that joined the session and engaged 🙌.
Welcome to my classroom :)
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The higher education community is invigorated with a drive to engage students and deliver future-proofed skills - CEO Paul Feldman on a post-Covid digital transformation ji.sc/2HEPBd4
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Join the discussions on 15 December to hear all about the new digital research community group, and Jisc’s updated research strategy jisc.ac.uk/events/shaping-fu…
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Today’s report – learning and teaching reimagined: a new dawn for higher education? – reveals how COVID-19 has fundamentally shifted the higher education landscape ji.sc/a-new-dawn
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I'm looking to connect with anyone who has had a positive and more inclusive time at university during lockdown than before COVID.
Retweets would be appreciated.
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the room next door - Dominic Cummings
LONG VERSION
youtu.be/U7zkejgYSlg
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#FlattenTheCuve - WP comes up with a powerful graph around implications of isolation vs not ..
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The most incredible call I will ever take on radio. Dr Al has changed my view on life
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0877m…
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.@StephenNolan Thanks for the interview with heroic A and E Doctor Al. Should be required listening on why public health advice must be observed.
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Just to be clear, we will not be selling the sanitiser. But giving it away to those who need it.
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1. The govt strategy on #Coronavirus is more refined than those used in other countries and potentially very effective. But it is also riskier and based on a number of assumptions. They need to be correct, and the measures they introduce need to work when they are supposed to.
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Friday 13th #CoVID_19 update. Rather than a tweet storm each day, I've put the rest of today's graphs here: nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/covid19…
This allows more space for explanation, and a stable location for people to look. Feel free to comment here though!
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While you're sitting pondering your mortality, think how astounding it is that one single viral particle from a bat can replicate so far and cause so much trouble! Biology is amazing!
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With the current coronavirus situation, homeworking is in the spotlight. But among the encouragement to be video conferencing, meeting virtually and collaborating remotely, it's worth pausing to think about the human element ji.sc/2xnhCQH