My background to dissolution
I always try to do some due diligence in relation to the things that I write and the books that I publish. My latest book, The Dissolution of the Universities, emerged from reading over a number of years about the…
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Published: The Dissolution of the Universities
My new book, The Dissolution of the Universities, has been published by MayFly Books. It is free to download from the MayFly website. If you can donate to keep the radical press going that would be appreciated. My sincere thanks…
The Dissolution of the Universities: 24 June
My new book with MayFly Books is published next Wednesday, 24 June. The book begins from the premise that: The University is in crisis because it is the crisis. The argument works with one of the key questions raised by…
New article: The Impact Of The Current Student Loans Regime On Muslim Student Engagement And Retention In English Higher Education
With Yusraa Maryam and Sumeya Loonat, I have a new article published by the British Educational Research Journal, on The Impact Of The Current Student Loans Regime On Muslim Student Engagement And Retention In English Higher Education. The article builds…
New book: The Dissolution of the Universities
I have just submitted the final draft for a monograph with MayFly Books. The title is The Dissolution of the Universities. This book was written in the shadow of Gaza. It forms one strand of my grieving and mourning the…
Workshop: the dissolution of the universities
I ran a workshop on the dissolution of the universities at the International Festival of Decoloniality 2026 on Tuesday. This was such an enlivening event, in particular in bringing a range of stories and narratives into conversation, in a way…
Muslim Friendly Universities Report: Being and Becoming: British Muslim Students’ First-Year Journeys in Higher Education
Over the last three years I have had the privilege of working with a range of Muslim students and staff on research at the intersection of faith and the student experience. One arm of this led to a report on…
My MA and PhD theses: Yorkshire politics in the early eighteenth century
I recently had an enquiry about my PhD, which I undertook at University College Worcester (validated by Coventry University), between 1994-97. My PhD was titled (and the citation is available from): Political Persuasion: Politicians and the Electorate in Yorkshire County…
Book project/conference workshop: The Dissolution of the Universities
I’m leading a workshop at the University of Derby’s International Festival of Decoloniality. The workshop, The Dissolution of the University (or how do revolutionary teachers teach, after Gaza?), connects to my next monograph, slated for publication in 2026: The Dissolution of…
Teaching to transform the curriculum (T2TC): Building frameworks for racial literacy
With the DMU Stephen Lawrence Research Centre (SLRC), I led a British Educational Research Association (BERA) small grants project. BERA’s intention is to support research focussing on the professional learning for teacher educators, and our project connected to the SLRC’s…