Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Conversations

In this second episode of the 'Meet The Editors' series of podcasts, Ibrar Bhatt sits down with some of the journal's Editors to go behind the scenes to explore what TiHE is really about, and giving prospective authors an honest and grounded sense of what TiHE editors look for.

Guests:

Neil Harrison (Executive Editor)

Karen Mpamhanga (Executive Editor)

Kevin Kester (Executive Editor)

Juuso Nieminen (Executive Editor)

In this first episode of a new series of podcasts, Ibrar Bhatt sits down with some of the journal's Editors to go behind the scenes to explore what TiHE is really about, and giving prospective authors an honest and grounded sense of what the publication journey actually looks like.

Guests:

Aneta Hayes (Chief Editor)

Karen Gravett (Executive Editor)

Greg Misiaszek (Executive Editor)

In this episode, I talk with Kevin Kester about the special issue on 'Conflict, Peace & Teaching in Higher Education' which he guest edited with Greg William Misiaszek.

You can read Kester and Misiaszek's editorial and the whole special issue here:

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cthe20/31/3

In this episode, Ibrar Bhatt talks with Jiahui (Jess) Luo about her article ‘How does GenAI affect trust in teacher-student relationships? Insights from students’ assessment experiences’.

And you can read Jess’s article here:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13562517.2024.2341005?src=

In this episode, Ibrar Bhatt talks with Gene Flenady about his article ‘Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors’ (co-authored by Robert Sparrow)

You can read their article here:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13562517.2025.2497263

In this episode, Ibrar Bhatt talks with Daniel Plate about his article ‘The intellectual bankruptcy of anti-AI academic alarmism: a rebuttal’ (co-authored by James Hutson)

You can read their article here:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13562517.2025.2562594

In this episode Ibrar Bhatt talks to Claire Timperley (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand) about her article 'Assessment as pedagogy'. Claire advocates an alternative approach to assessment where authenticity signifies meaningful learning outside the confines of the classroom.

You can read Claire's article here:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13562517.2024.2367662

In this episode, Ibrar Bhatt talks with Shuchen Xiang about her article ‘Problematizing the critique of culture: an alternative Chinese hermeneutics for teaching the humanities’.

Xiang argues that in the humanities, there is a pervasive tendency to view criticality in terms of the deconstruction of normative socio-cultural relationships, especially in traditional, non-western cultures. In contrast, she describes an alternative hermeneutics based in classical Chinese philosophical concepts.

You can read Shuchen's article here:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13562517.2025.2487765

In this episode Ibrar Bhatt speaks to Alison MacKenzie about her article titled 'Gaza: an indictment of critical philosophy'.

You can read Alison's article here:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13562517.2025.2502382?src=exp-la

In this episode Ibrar Bhatt speaks to Carla Briffett-Aktaş about the role of student silence for criticality.

You can read Carla's article here:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13562517.2025.2449650