This is the second Pedagodzilla on Tour visit to the Durham University Postgraduate Researcher Development Conference. This time Mark was also talking to four attendees of the conference. The difference this time is that all four chats have been combined into one bumper episode. The people Mark spoke to were Paul Stafford – Enterprise Manager… Continue reading Durham University PGR Development Conference – 2026

Welcome to the Playful Learning 2026 Programme-in-a-pod: an audio companion to the conference programme, where Mike Collins chats with some of the speakers, presenters and keynotes to get a vibe for the wild and wonderful sessions delegates can expect. Day three takes us towards the edge of the woods with magical forest alchemy, object-based digital… Continue reading Day Three Playful Learning 2026 Programme-in-a-pod: Snags, Spells, Idioms and Dolphins

Welcome to the Playful Learning 2026 Programme-in-a-pod: an audio companion to the conference programme, where Mike Collins chats with some of the speakers, presenters and keynotes to get a vibe for the wild and wonderful sessions delegates can expect. Day two heads deeper into the woods with climate choices, AI ethics, floor grids, learning forests,… Continue reading Day Two Playful Learning 2026 Programme-in-a-pod: Cardboard Castles, Climate Choices and

Welcome to the Playful Learning 2026 Programme-in-a-pod: an audio companion to the conference programme, where Mike Collins chats with some of the speakers, presenters and keynotes to get a vibe for the wild and wonderful sessions delegates can expect. Day one takes us into the woods with long shadows, everyday objects, seriously silly sessions, playful… Continue reading Day One Playful Learning 2026 Programme-in-a-pod: World-Famous Woods, Silly Sessions and Deadline Dashes

This is a series of chats Mark had on Day Two of the RIDL HE conference. He spoke to closing keynote speaker Mia Ridge, VR and digital forensics people Philip Anderson and Craig Clark, PhD candidate and escape room practitioner extraordinaire Rachelle Rawlinson, the real and fictional personae of Peter Bryant, Donna Lanclos and Lawrie… Continue reading RIDL HE Conference Day 2

Here is a compilation of the seven interviews with eight people Mark conducted with participants at the Research in Digital Learning Conference at Northumbria University today (3rd September 2025) https://hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk/ridlhe/ People chatting were Nashwa Ismail, Andrew Middleton, Jane Secker, Chris Morrison, Neil Dixon, Aisla Ingham, Alex Moseley and Susannah Quinsee

In the last of our five episodes (but first to be recorded) Mark talks to Mary Robson, who is the Senior Creative Facilitator in the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University and this year’s keynote speaker. Mark and Mary chat about her role and about how creative facilitation can help researchers gather better data… Continue reading PGR Keynote: Creative Facilitation with Mary Robson

In this episode Mark chats with a Post-Graduate Research student – Katherine. Katherine is investigating students’ literacy and how this relates to different factors. It’s a fascinating topic and also is an insight into the experience of being a Post-Graduate Researcher at Durham. Transcript on the link below

In the third of our podcasts from the PGR conference at Durham, the multi-talented Sarah Dodds, Digital Learning Advisor at the Durham Centre for Academic Development, talks to Mark about her crafting workshops and how she uses quilt-making and other techniques for data physicalisation and how embodying data can personalise and add emotional meaning to… Continue reading Crafting and zining for PGRS

And in the second of our coverage of Durham’s PGR Development conference Mark talked to Chidinma Okorie who is also a Senior Academic Development Manager in the Durham Centre for Academic Development. Her remit is implementing the PROSPER programme at Durham. OK Mark did say it’s the third one in the intro, they’re not being… Continue reading How to PROSPER at the PGR Conference