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Reflecting on Reflection: Strengthening the Necessarily Insider Research Framework
When we first introduced the Necessarily Insider Research Framework (NIRF), it was designed to help Professional Practice researchers navigate the often messy, ethically charged terrain of researching from within their own practice. The framework offered evaluative questions, not as a checklist, but as a landscape – a way to orient and reflect, to challenge and […]
Riding Waves of Practice: Where Visual Storytelling Meets Insider Research
June 30, 2025
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
Computing for Sustainability 
June 30, 2025
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