Where is my office? Reflections on a discussion hosted by Herman Miller with Chris Kane, author and ex-head of estates at the BBC and Walt Disney. Businesses large and small are changing fundamentally and quickly…
Posts By James Rutherford
Preparing nursing students for placement in mental health hospitals
There are a limited number of resources available to students to prepare them for working in mental health units and understanding the experience of patients [service users]. This Moodle module for Mental Health Nursing at City follows…
Working from home, how is it for you?
First of all if you are really missing the office environment, click here to listen to the sounds of a busy workplace while you read this https://soundofcolleagues.com/# As we know, since the beginning of this…
Media and Learning – Online Conference Highlights Part 2
https://association.media-and-learning.eu/portal/about-association This years’ Media and Learning conference like so many others, was held online over the course of 2 days in June 2020. I was due to attend in Belgium and present a paper on…
Media and Learning – Online Conference Highlights Part 1
https://association.media-and-learning.eu/portal/about-association This years’ Media and Learning conference like so many others, was held online over the course of 2 days in June 2020. I was due to attend in Belgium and present a paper on…
Webinars – Why Do We Bother?
You may have heard the phrase, let’s not waste a crisis? So why not sign up to lots of webinars to keep ourselves informed and occupied whilst trying to work from home. I’m sure that…
Campus of the Future
I joined a webinar last month from Germany which was thought provoking and slightly comforting in that it confirmed we are all in the same perplexing situation about what our university will look like in…
What Type of Learning Spaces Should We Design for our Students? Update
With reference to this blog from earlier in the year – https://blogs.city.ac.uk/learningatcity/2020/01/13/what-type-of-learning-spaces-should-we-design-for-our-students/#.XqqzXy-ZPOQ It seems appropriate to add that with the current Covid-19 crisis, higher education is facing an enormous challenge in how to respond to…
Physical Health & Home Working, from a Webinar by Herman Miller
The webinar today [30th March 2020] was focussed on our physical and mental health and working environment at home, it was hosted by Bertie Van Wyk, [BvW] who is part of the research team at Herman…
Overcoming Isolation in Distance Learning
Aside from the benefits of technology allowing us to work and study remotely, it’s important to recognise the potential sense of isolation that many of us and our students may well experience during the Coronavirus…
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