Engagement

This is a project that is enriched by public engagement. Please visit our project update section to track project developments.

Read our contributions to the public discussion on rentiership, assetization and digitalisation:

• Komljenovic, J. (2023) Seeking better oversight for staff and student data. WONKHE (18 Jul).
• Birch, K. (2023) There are no markets anymore: From neoliberalism to Big Tech, State of Power 2023 Report, The Transnational Institute (3 Feb).
• Komljenovic, J. (2022) Assetisation: what is it and why is it important?. Policy insights: the digitalisaiton of education. NORRAG. PP 28-29
• Birch, K. (2022) EdTech’s precarious futures: are there material limits to data-driven higher education?, Northern Research Review and Advisory Group (NORRAG) Blog (15 Nov).
• Komljenovic, J. (2022) Urgent questions for edtech stakeholders and policy-makers, University World News (20 August)
• Birch, K. (2022) Digital charter bill will do little to protect Canadians' personal data, National Post (21 Jun).
• Birch, K. (2022) Competition is important — in the digital sphere and in the debate over competition policy, National Post (11 Apr).
• Hansen, M. (2022) Building education assets, one crumb at a time, Postpandemic University blog (20 March)
• Mármol Queraltó, J. (2022) Critically analysing EdTech investors’ logic in business discourse, The Society for Research into Higher Education Blog (SRHEblog.com) (9 March).
• Komljenovic, J. (2022) Mapping financial investment flows in digital higher education: a focus on data-rich operations, The Society for Research into Higher Education Blog (SRHEblog.com) (16 Feb).
• Birch, K. (2022) Beware efficiencies! Assetisation as the future defraying of costs savings in the present, The Society for Research into Higher Education Blog (SRHEblog.com) (23 Feb).
• Hansen, M. (2022) Understanding the value of EdTech in higher education, The Society for Research into Higher Education Blog (SRHEblog.com) (2 March).
• Sellar, S. (2022) Digital platforms and university strategies: tensions and synergies, The Society for Research into Higher Education Blog (SRHEblog.com) (16 March).
• Hansen, M. (2022) Times Higher Education is expanding, but what is it becoming?, LSE blogs (10 Feb)
• Birch, K. (2022) The assetization of social life, Bot Populi (19 Jan).
• Hansen, M. (2022) Understanding the value of edtech in higher education, University World News (15 Jan).
• Raaper, R. and Komljenovic, J. (2022) The changing role of students in British higher education governance: Partners, consumers and digital users, Centre for Global Higher Education Working Paper 79 (Jan).
• Birch, K. (2021) Big Tech poses challenges our outdated competition laws were not designed to address, National Post (29 Nov).
• Gulson, KN, Sellar, S., Webb, TP (2021) Synthetic governance: on the impossibility of taming artificial intelligence in education, on_education, Journal for Research and Debate (Dec).