My Imaginary University

Nov 17 2024 24 ep. 39 mins 4
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An exciting new(ish) higher ed podcast brought to you by Dr Paul Greatrix, Registrar at the University of Nottingham, in which a notable sector figure is asked to create and describe their ideal imaginary university. My Imaginary University is a sort of Desert Island Universities concept but without the desert island, the music, the book or the luxury. Will their imaginary university be a bit Christminster, rather Rummidge-like or more in the Manchester Medlock mould? You'll have to listen to find out. And to discover what kind of VC our guest will be and what their university's anthem is.

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S2 Ep4: Episode 4: Never Knowingly Undertaught- Vale University's Boarding School Experience

Nov 17 2024 54 mins  
This episode is another landmark in the My Imaginary University podcast series. For the second year in a row the podcast was recorded in front of a live audience at the Wonkhe Festival of Higher Education at Senate House, University of London. This time, my guest is Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, the Higher Education Policy Institute, who creates an intensively residential insti

S2 Ep3: Episode 3: University of All the Feels - Higher Ed with Emotional Maturity

Oct 06 2024 47 mins  
This episode of My Imaginary University features Debbie McVitty, Editor of Wonkhe and prominent higher ed commentator who creates a rather special institution, the University of All the Feels or Feels Uni, a place where, as their slogan has it, "when we do something we meant to do it that way." Debbie gives us a broad sweep of information about the university covering many dimensi

S2 Ep2: Episode 2: No legislation without graduation at Democracy U

Aug 12 2024 35 mins  
In the latest episode of the podcast in which notable sector figures are invited to dream up a fictional university we have Professor Adam Tickell, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Birmingham, who delivers a novel idea to improve Parliament, politics and public discourse. Adam presents us with Democracy University, a very special kind of institution which provide

S2 Ep1: Season 2, Ep 1: Delivering Deliverology at Cuckoo U

Jul 15 2024 33 mins  
Season 2 of My Imaginary University kicks off with a thoroughly novel creation from Professor Mark Peace, the newly appointed Academic Director of the King's Experience at King's College London. Mark presents Cuckoo University, an incredibly lean organisation with no buildings and very few staff, which is dedicated to enabling students to make the most of the Lifelong Loan Entitle

S1 Ep20: Episode 20: Monasticism and Modernity at the University of Hyper-Humanities

Jul 12 2024 35 mins  
Our latest imaginary vice-chancellor is Paul Clark, formerly of HESA and UCL and now an independent strategy consultant. Paul has created a novel institution which is rooted in the past but with an eye very much to the future. There aren’t huge numbers of students on campus at this super-connected ivory tower of an institution but it does have a large online presence. It's a ful

S1 Ep19: Episode 19: The Uni of Peace and Quiet and Learning to Love a Mid-life Crisis at Transition U

Jun 23 2024 35 mins  
Time for a further landmark in the My Imaginary University podcast series. It is another live recording but our first at an international conference. This recording was made at the 2024 HUMANE annual conference at the University of Amsterdam and features not one but two imaginary higher education institutions. Our creative presenters are Leon Van de Zande, Secretary General at the

S1 Ep18: Episode 18: The University for Service - Outstanding HE for the Public Sector

Mar 26 2024 31 mins  
Our innovative creator in the latest edition of the My Imaginary University podcast is sector stalwart and HE consultant at large, Aaron Porter. Aaron's bold university idea is to create an institution dedicated to serving the public sector and educating prospective public service professionals from nurses to teachers to fast stream civil servants. With campuses based in former d

S1 Ep17: Episode 17: Tri-Nation Seaside Study at As Yet Untitled U

Mar 18 2024 39 mins  
My guest on this episode of My Imaginary University is Alistair Jarvis, Pro-Vice-Chancellor Partnerships and Governance at the University of London. Generously supported by a billionaire philanthropist, Alistair's university is based on three campuses on estates by the sea on the south coast of England, Dubai and Nigeria. The three campuses are equal in every way and every stude

S1 Ep16: Episode 16: Hauntings, Hallelujahs and a Holistic Student Experience at Camford University

Feb 20 2024 42 mins  
This episode of My Imaginary University stars Johnny Rich, who is Chief Executive of the Engineering Professors' Council and of Push, the independent university guide, among other roles. Johnny is proud to be the Vice-Chancellor of Camford University, a post he was appointed to some years ago with a bold remit to change the ancient institution. As VC he has instituted a radical a

S1 Ep15: Episode 15: Greenworld U: interdisciplinary HE with Shakespeare, starlight and dancing

Jan 29 2024 39 mins  
This edition of the podcast stars Professor Julie Sanders, Vice-Chancellor and Principal at Royal Holloway, University of London. Julie offers a novel concept, Greenworld Univerisity, a constellation of campuses based on the notion of green world spaces in Shakespeare or spaces of possibility. Her university has a very broad offering - not just Shakespeare - and provides huge fl