How the Being, Belonging, Becoming framework can help surface hidden assumptions in programme design One of the questions I am often asked about the Being, Belonging, Becoming (BBB) framework is …
Being, Belonging, Becoming: Designing for Lived Student Experience
Higher education talks a great deal about belonging. We talk about community, engagement, student voice and inclusion. Yet belonging is often framed as something relational or pastoral, something that sits …
The Spinnaker Group: A Space for Exploration in Teaching, Learning and Student Experience
Across the higher education sector, those with strategic responsibility for teaching, learning, and student experience are grappling with increasingly complex challenges. Policy reform, growing student diversity, financial constraint, and the …
Getting the Right People in the Room
Curriculum Design Through Charrettes As universities respond to lifelong learning, increasing flexibility, and more complex student lives, curriculum design has become both more urgent and more contested. Ambitious policy goals …
Welcome to my posts
In 2026, with significant challenges and opportunities facing the higher education sector, I thought I would muse aloud. This is a space for reflection on higher education policy, leadership, pedagogy, …
The Lifelong Learning Entitlement
The Lifelong Learning Entitlement is not just a funding reform. It is a pedagogical challenge. As the Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE) moves closer to implementation, the sector risks treating it …