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Kay Sidebottom is a Lecturer in Education, and Programme Director for a new MSc Education at the University of Stirling. With a background in community and adult education, her pedagogical specialisms include critical, radical and anarchist education, arts-based practice and community philosophy. Current research projects focus on what we can learn from ‘more-than-human' teachers; that is, the animals, insects and wider ecological systems on which humanity depends. Her recent collaborators include dogs, bees and algae.
Inclusivity as a concept is widely discussed, taught and applied as education grapples with difficult questions of equity and fairness in times of increasing human complexity. However, its meaning...
Continue reading blog postI first engaged with critical posthuman theory in 2015, at Rosi Braidotti’s Posthuman Summer School at the University of Utrecht. At the time, I was working in teacher training, preparing people...
Continue reading blog postWho is it for? The ECR Network’s symposia series is targeted at early career researchers (ECRs) – be they current Masters or Doctoral students or those in the early post-doctoral phase....
Traditional research practice often fails to acknowledge our embodied, entangled and complex roles, with ‘ethics’ becoming merely a form to tick off along a path to neutral and objective...
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