The 'Committee on Publication Ethics' (COPE), a non-profit, has useful guidelines for editors and peer reviewers. These should be more widely publicized. publicationethics.org/guidance?t=pee…

Academic freedom and the governance of the neoliberal university - unwind the corporate management structures - return universities to collegial self governance. stuff.co.nz/manawatu-stand…

bloomsbury.com/uk/practitione… I co-edited this volume with @LaetitiaM19. We wrote a chapter on socio-analysis of the field of EAP. Some excellent contributions from around the world by @BeeBond1 Namala Tilakaratna Shawon ahmed Michelle Joubert @PhDgirlSA Iwona Pringle @sarahtee7

Check out this article: cnn.com/2023/09/21/chi…

Congratulations to the University of Leeds on launching their new MA in teaching EAP ahc.leeds.ac.uk/homepage/414/m…

Thoughtful review of @BeeBond1 and my edited book on the politics, policies and practices of EAP by Yasemin Kirkgöz of Cukorova University, Turkey – emphasizes the concerns we raised about the future of EAP esptodayjournal.org/pdf/january_20…

Was looking again at Bill Readings 'The University in Ruins' - liked this quote (p. 175)

There are many of these books, but this one is by a sociologist (University of Michigan) and is well argued.

I like Bourdieu's approach to reflexivity - quote from 'An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology', Bourdieu and Wacquant (p. 46)

An insightful but depressing account of what universities have become. rdcu.be/dEvve

The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA, 2013) needs to be read, publicized and reemphasized in all universities as counter to the absurdities of the academic game. DORA sfdora.org/read

discussion of normative values in critiques of the corporatized university Kant versus the Managers: Historical Reconstruction and the Modern University academic.oup.com/jope/article-a…

Recommend this small book to anyone doing research. A good discussion of reflexivity.

Some interesting thoughts in this article. Knowing Neoliberalism: Social Epistemology: Vol 33 , No 4 - Get Access tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Another chapter in H. Nesi & P. Milin (Eds.), International encyclopedia of language and linguistics (3rd ed.). doi.org/10.1016/B978-0…

Quote from Bhaskar's (1975) 'A Realist Theory of Science' (p. 188) - some problems aren't new

The Marsden Fund is the main source of research funding in New Zealand. The Government has announced that the Fund will no longer support research in humanities or the social sciences. Our university system would seem to have a bleak future.

Starting to migrate to ian-bruce2.bsky.social

Language, Knowledge and Society in Higher Education - The Intersection of Social, Epistemological and Discursive Knowledge in Academic Communication bloomsbury.com/uk/language-kn… Published, Thursday, January 22. This has been a huge project. Looking forward to conversations about it.

We have provided a short blog post about our new book 'Language, Knowledge and Society in Higher Education'. The link is celt.leeds.ac.uk/news/book-publ…