The Pedagodzilla podcast on tour! Mike Collins and Mark Childs share their coverage, conversations and reflections from education conferences and events around the UK. Join us as we get the flavour of the doings, chat with the foremost folk in the sector, and have a good laugh while we do it.
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
