Connected World

10 September 2024

Building a restorative (VU) university through dialogue

Interpersonal conflict occurs in every organisation – and universities are no exception. However, academic environments have certain characteristics which can create more opportunities for conflict and disrespect of boundaries. Universities function in a very hierarchical manner, and academics are under…

10 June 2024

Why can’t learning be more fun?

My daughter experiences school-related stress on a regularly basis. She often comes home telling me she had to work really hard, with almost no time for fun or games. The many tests and grades make her nervous. Of course, this…

28 May 2024

The Power of Poetry

“Poetry makes nothing happen”, W.H. Auden famously wrote in 1939, as the world was preparing for another world war. It was a strange comment to make by a poet who earned his living writing poetry. Imagine Picasso at the time…

2 April 2024

It’s the Media, Stupid!

After our final school exams in 1989, my friends and I went on a vacation. Not to a Greek island to enjoy house and beach life, but instead to the remotest place our Interrail tickets would take us: Alta, Norway…

5 March 2024

Adventures in digital parenting

There’s a picture on my father-in-law’s Facebook profile. It features my body, covered by a paper gown, my tiny son Luca, naked except a diaper and a knitted hat, and the smiling face of my partner. It is a snapshot…

8 February 2024

Tattoo memory

One of my earliest memories of Morocco concerns my great-aunt Fatima. I must have been aged four or five, but I can still see her fragile, wrinkly face as she stood in front of my sister and me in the…

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