The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly. — Carl Honoré
The first Seminar on the SLOW University took place on the 6th November at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), Palace Green, Durham University. In this guest blog post, Maggie O’Neill reflects on this seminar and looks forward to the next on 11th March 2014.
This is the third of a trio of posts about the Slow University that started life as presentations in a seminar at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Durham University. In it, guest blogger Ruth Mueller, explores how the compulsion for speed in academia plays out in the lives of postdocs.
This is the second of a trio of posts about the Slow University that started life as presentations in a seminar at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Durham University. In it, Heather argues that some calls for slowing down scholarship mask a conservative politics.
This is the first of a trio of posts about the Slow University that started life as presentations in a seminar at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Durham University. In it, guest blogger Luke Martell, argues that we shouldn’t fetishise speed at the fast university. This distracts from what’s behind it. And we should ask whether slow is what the slow university’s really about.
