The Politics of Representation

Call for blogs

Sanitisation and Race: The Continued Purging of the Nation State

Giant Leap with Small Steps

Seema Nath, Doctoral Student

This question needs to consider lived narratives and experiences from the wider student body and a deep reflection on the part of institutes about why HE should invest in diversity, equity, and inclusion in the first place…

A joint ‘grammar’ to manage power, representation and expectations in UK doctoral education

Aliandra Barlete, University of Edinburgh

The authors invite for a very timely conversation which seems innocent but in fact opens Pandora’s box…

Carving space for multiple knowledges in HE

Consuelo Béjares, Ph.D. Student, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge

Member of the Latin American Research in Education Collective — LAREC

NO ONE LIKES A MAD WOMAN — YOU MADE HER LIKE THAT

Anonymous

While there are both minor and significant alterations that could be made to the doctoral program in order to begin addressing the various crises of representation in HE, I am hesitant to offer my reflections…

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Anonymous

I have deliberated over the assigned question for quite some time and pondered over not on what to say but rather on the how. My brief tenure at Cambridge has conditioned me to expect the Great British deference when engaging with crises. It is this (pseudo) politeness that…

Acknowledging doctoral programmes as sites of knowledge transformation

Sharon Walker, University of Cambridge

A response to the blog question needs to address the simple observation that doctoral students’ interactions with their institutions and…

Working the ruins of… yourself?

Finding creative form and movement within a poststructurally-induced academic-paralysis

Seeing and being the visualised ‘other’: humanitarian representations and hybridity in African diaspora identities