LATEST PUBLICATIONS

The post-coronial future of higher education: Utopian hopes and dystopian fears at Cambridge University

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If I asked you to describe your ‘perfect dystopia’ of a post-pandemic university, what kind of scenario would emerge? And which images arise when you try to picture the opposite, an ideal utopian outcome? When I interviewed students and academics at Cambridge’s Faculty of Education about hopes and fears for the future of HE, responses included scenes that could inspire even the gloomiest science fiction scripts. It is clear that Covid-19 has raised critical questions addressing the existential core of HE institutions and their futures. By imagining best and worst-case scenarios, this time of crisis becomes an opportunity to pause and reflect: what kind of university do we ultimately want, and what is it we absolutely don’t want?

​Read the full blog here

Podcasting during a Pandemic: How can we Reimagine the Future of the ‘Post-Covid’ University?

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This article reflects on conversations about the future of the ‘post-coronial’ university, hosted by the Cambridge Quaranchats Podcast. 

How can we make more space in academia for the ‘spoken word’? How do we think and understand differently through speaking and listening? What kind of co-construction of knowledge occurs when we engage in conversation? 

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SELECTED WRITING

Society for Research into Higher Education (26-jan-2021): 'The post-coronial future of higher education: Utopian hopes and dystopian fears'

The Post-Pandemic University (10-sep-2020): 'Reimagining educational futures: Podcasting and the post-pandemic University'

University College London, CEID (9-jul-2020): 'Podcasting during a Pandemic: How can we reimagine the Post-Covid University?'

Sustainability Worldwide Center (24-jun-2020): 'Una pandemia no es el momento para el oportunismo académico'

Cambridge Peace and Education Research Group (22-jun-2020): 'No Justice, No Peace'
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Times Higher Education (16-jun-2020): 'A pandemic is not the time for academic opportunism'

Fersa Cambridge (27-apr-2020): "Looking for the silver lining": Research skills for a global pandemic'

NRC Handelsblad (24-apr-2020): 'Dit is geen moment voor academisch ellenbogenwerk'

University of London (31-Mar-2020): 'Studying in times of COVID-19'

​Het Onderwijsblad (8-jan-2020): 'Uitblinken moet makkelijker worden'

De Telegraaf (13-dec-2019): 'Turbostudent: "Ze zeiden dat ik té slim was"'

​University of London (21-oct-2019): 'Three degrees in thee years: a tale of dedication'

​​Honeysuckle Mag (14-june-2019): 'I Rejected Hook-ups and Missed Out on a Dream Job'

The New Context (3-jan-2019): 'The Hair Salons of Flatbush'
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ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Studies in Higher Education Special Issue Journal

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My latest academic publication is out now! Read about the core findings of my research conducted at the Cambridge Faculty of Education about utopian hopes and dystopian fears for the future of post-coronial higher education. 

Eringfeld, S. (2021): Higher education and its post-coronial future: Utopian hopes and dystopian fears at Cambridge University during Covid-19. Studies in Higher Education, 46:1, 146-157, DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2020.1859681

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Find the article, published in the latest Special Issue of Studies in Higher Education, here

Equitable Education: Opportunity and Entrepreneurship within the Spatio-Temporal Liminality of the Refugee Camp

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Refugees are spending increasingly protracted amounts of time in refugee camps, ‘waiting’ for a distant future outside of the camp to arrive. The notion of the camp as a temporary space of transition is contradicted by a reality in which this state of being ‘in limbo’ becomes permanent. This essay presents a critical literature review to investigate what ‘equitable education’ means within this spatio-temporally liminal context. Self-led entrepreneurship education may facilitate a shift from education focussed on indefinitely delayed futures outside the camp towards supporting refugees’ creation of possible futures within the camp, ‘here and now’.

Read the full article here

ACADEMIC WRITING

Eringfeld, S. (2021): Higher education and its post-coronial future: Utopian hopes and dystopian fears at Cambridge University during Covid-19. Studies in Higher Education, 46:1, 146-157, DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2020.1859681​

Eringfeld, S. (2020). Equitable Education: Opportunity and Entrepreneurship within the Spatio-Temporal Liminality of the Refugee Camp. Cambridge Educational Research e-Journal (CERJ), (Volume 7), 86-104. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.58329