In this podcast, Ibrar Bhatt speaks to Karen Gravett about her article ‘A critical practice for contemporary times’. Karen suggests that there is a need to re-examine critical theorising in contemporary higher education, where critique is at risk of becoming stale, meaningless, even harmful. She proposes a move towards critical practice. Rather than critique being a cognitive individualised process. Her article is available in Teaching in Higher Education at this link:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13562517.2025.2449643