Academic Reflections

• Sustainability Paradoxes: A Research‑Teaching Nexus in Action

  3/29/2026

  Academic Reflections, Pedagogy

  education, education for sustainable development, ESD, higher education, learning, research-teaching nexus, sustainability paradoxes, teaching, teaching and learning

• Women in Academia: Getting Unstuck and Rethinking Resilience

  3/10/2026

  Academic Encounters, Academic Reflections

  Advance HE, AURORA, female academic, female leadership, getting unstuck, growth, resilience, women in academia

• Becoming a Human Book: Reflections From Rathlin Island’s Human Library

  2/22/2026

  Academic Encounters, Academic Reflections, Beach

  adventure, Beach, community activism, enviro-leisure activism, Future Island-Island, Human Book, Human Library, Knowledge Exchange, marine litter, nature, Rathlin, solastalgia, travel, writing

• Shaping Tomorrow: Reflections from THRIC 2026

  2/2/2026

  Academic Encounters, Academic Reflections

  academic agency, academic conference, conference review, education, events, hospitality, learning, research, shaping tomorrow, Special Interest Groups, teaching, THRIC2026, tourism

• Exploring the Working Lives of Women in Northern Ireland

  1/23/2026

  Academic Reflections

  EPIC Futures NI, esrc-festival-of-social-science, lived-realities, northern-ireland, women, work

• The beach: a liminal space between hope and despair

  1/2/2026

  Academic Reflections, Beach

  Beach, community activism, enviro-leisure activism, Future Island-Island, interdisciplinarity, marine litter, solastalgia

• Language, People, and the Pathways We Build

  12/30/2025

  Academic Reflections

  economics, EPIC Futures NI, human centred, labour market, language, philosophy