[This is a blog post based on my forthcoming talk at the PESGB Gregynog Conference, taking place in Wales from 23rd-25th July 2018]   The annual Gregynog conference is organised

Just published: Raaper, R. (2018). Students as consumers? A counter perspective from student assessment as a disciplinary technology. Teaching in Higher Education [Online First]. doi: 10.1080/13562517.2018.1456421 This blog post is an invitation

Students’ Unions and Consumerist Policy Discourses in England: An Exploration of Discursive Contradictions [This is a blog post based on a paper given at the symposium ‘Student politics in contemporary

[This is a blog post based on a forthcoming presentation at the British Education Research Association Conference, taking place in Leeds in September 2016] There is an increasing scholarly concern around

I was fortunate enough to attend the recent Foucault @90 conference, held at the University of West of Scotland on the 22-23 June. It was well attended with a strong

This carries on from the previous blog post that explored policy reception in terms of decentralised neoliberalism and/or masked re-centralisation. Part 2 will now demonstrate borrowing from Foucault’s notions of