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Riding Waves of Practice: Where Visual Storytelling Meets Insider Research
Sometimes words are not enough. In our latest collaboration – Riding Waves of Practice – Ruth Myers, Dave Guruge, and I wanted to explore what it feels like to do Professional Practice research when the stories are hard to tell, the methods don’t exist yet, and the path forward is more like surfing chaos than […]
Thirteen Principles for Educational Innovation
June 30, 2025
How do you create a degree for futures that haven’t happened yet? How do you teach change-making to people who are still discovering what kind of change they want to make? In our paper, Principles for Educational Innovation – A Developmental Evaluation Perspective, Margy-Jean Malcolm and I reflect on the messy, emergent, but ultimately deeply […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability
Learning Where Angels Fear to Tread: Evaluative Questions for Necessarily Insider Professional Practice
June 30, 2025
In Professional Practice research, we’ve long celebrated the idea that some of the most valuable learning comes from within our own messy, lived experiences. But what happens when that messiness isn’t just inconvenient, but ethically fraught, emotionally overwhelming, or simply too complex for conventional research approaches? That was the starting point for our work on […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Seven Times Upon an Ism: Extending the Layered Drivers Framework
June 29, 2025
A year ago, we introduced the Layered Drivers “isms” framework building on Boehnert’s levels of sexism as a structured way to identify and act upon the complex, multi-level drivers of systemic oppression in professional settings. Since then, we’ve been busy not just talking about it, but testing and expanding it, in the messiness of real […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Unpacking Layered Drivers: Tugging on the Threads of Systemic Change
June 29, 2025
When we began this work, we weren’t trying to build a new model. We were just trying to make sense of why meaningful change so often stalls—even when the will is there. As researchers and practitioners committed to Professional Practice with real-world impact, we’ve grown wary of single-point interventions. A new policy here, a workshop […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Computing for Sustainability 
June 30, 2025
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