I am, in no particular order, “inexperienced”, “not clear”, “confusing”, “a very bad teacher”, “acts like he is way too important and cool”, “can never ask him questions”, “monotone”, “not helpful”, etc., etc. Well, that… Read More »My teaching failures …
… yet another blog I did on the Lisbon Agenda article I wrote with Vlad Mykhnenko. This time published on the website of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI). “By 2010, the European Union… Read More »Even more dissemination! The Lisbon Agenda … again!?
Another short piece by yours truly just published called ‘The Lisbon Agenda: Financialising Europe’s Economy‘ on the New Left Project website. “My main aim in this short piece is to outline how the Lisbon Strategy… Read More »… more dissemination of the Lisbon Agenda paper
What motivates me here are the numerous conversations I’ve had over the last few years with people already in academia, those trying to get into academia, or those drifting around the edges in insecure posts… Read More »How to get a (tenure-track) job in academia
A friend – Vlad Mykhenko – and I have just had a paper published called “Lisbonizing vs. financializing Europe? The Lisbon Agenda and the (un)making of the European knowledge-based economy” in the journal Environment and… Read More »Summary of my new paper: “Lisbonizing vs. financializing Europe?”
One of the things about being an academic is that we face serious critique and rejection of our written work, future research plans and very ideas themselves, almost on a daily basis if we take… Read More »Pulling back the veil on academia …
Not that this matters too much, but thought I’d add this warning so it’s clear. It seems that my old URL address (keanbirch.org) has been taken over by someone else, for whatever reason. I couldn’t… Read More »My old URL address
It would seem that Ontario universities are facing some critical choices and decisions over the coming few years, many of which will determine the institutional shape and function of York University specifically and the higher… Read More »Strategic vision for the future of York University
I’ve just co-authored a report entitled “Climate Change, Sustainable Infrastructure and the Implications for Engineers” – available here. It’s for a workshop to be held in January 2014 (originally on 31st October 2013) and hosted… Read More »Climate change report: Implications for engineers