Other press coverage
& blog posts

The University Project

• 'The University Project' - Mark Carrigan, 14 November 2011
• Much has been made of the supposedly supine response of vice-chancellors to the wholesale reform of higher education by the coalition government. But any vacuum in opposition to the changes is being filled by a growing number of grassroots campaigns offering alternative visions for the future of the sector.
  'Edification, Edification, Edification' - Times Higher Education, 20 October 2011
• 'THE Scholarly Web' - Times Higher Education, 13 October 2011
• '10 Inspirational Tips from the Man from MONGOOSE' - The University Blog, 21 February 2011

New Public Thinking

• 'Are the BBC's academics a good reflection of new public thinkers?' - The Guardian, 29 June 2011
• The need for public intellectuals who can engage with the big ideas of our age, shape debate and envisage new directions has seldom been greater.
  'Sage Concern' - Times Higher Education, 3 February 2011

The Institute for Collapsonomics

• For some, collapsonomics is about finding ways to build resilient, sustainable, local-food communities that make use of creative frugality and reskilling. For others, it's about mass disaster relief planning.
  Collapsonomics: A New World Order? - The Irish Times, 7 January 2012
• It seems we need a term for big, obvious threats that are sure to emerge - think asteroid impacts - but which few want to face. Handily, students of "collapsonomics" have already coined one: "black elephants."
  The New Scientist discovers Collapsonomics, 21 April 2010

And finally...

• 'Monarchy: change our minds' - BBC, 7 June 2002 (in which I feature as a "Jubilee Babe")
• Dougald Hine is celebrating. Last week he was singled out by his employers as their top door-to-door salesman. And he gained a first in English at Oxford.
  'First at the Door' - The Guardian, 1 August 2000