Blog Posts

From PERU, with love

Today was my last official event as Centre Head for the Pedagogy and Education Research Unit (PERU), and I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about why I think organisations like PERU are so important for education-focused academics and to summarise what we’ve done over the last two years and why in the hope it might provide a template for others.
Last updated on Dec 12, 2024 6 min read

MCQs in the age of AI

I shared this guide on Writing Good Multiple Choice Test Questions on social media and the first response I got on both LinkedIn and BlueSky was whether MCQs hold up in the age of AI.
Last updated on Oct 26, 2024 7 min read

Psychology of Swearing UWS

This website accompanies the Psychology of Swearing talk held on Friday 19th April at UWS. Reading list If you would like more information about anything presented in this talk, I recommend the following sources:
Last updated on Apr 19, 2024 2 min read

Psychology of Swearing - MIC

This website accompanies the Psychology of Swearing talk held on Wednesday 20th March at Mary Immaculate College. Reading list If you would like more information about anything presented in this talk, I recommend the following sources:
Last updated on Mar 20, 2024 2 min read

Psychology of Swearing - Feb 2024

This website accompanies the Psychology of Swearing talk held on Wednesday 28th February for the University of Glasgow Psychology Society. Reading list If you would like more information about anything presented in this talk, I recommend the following sources:
Last updated on Feb 29, 2024 2 min read

ChatGPT: Student guidance for essays

Part 1: Using ChatGPT to create teaching materials: Data simulation & MCQs Part 2: Using ChatGPT to create teaching materials: marking criteria & rubrics Part 3: ChatGPT: Student guidance for multiple-choice assessments
Last updated on Aug 2, 2023 11 min read chatgpt

Using ChatGPT for learning & teaching: Correcting auto-transcripts

Alongside Wil Tovio and Rachel O’Neill, I’ve written before in the Times Higher about the problems that requiring academics to produce corrected captions introduces. If you don’t do it, you disadvantage a wide range of students and effectively ruin the education of those who are d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing.
Last updated on Jul 24, 2023 11 min read

ChatGPT: Student guidance for mulitple-choice assessments

Part 1: Using ChatGPT to create teaching materials: Data simulation & MCQs Part 2: Using ChatGPT to create teaching materials: marking criteria & rubrics The last two blogs I’ve focused on how I have been using ChatGPT to help me create teaching materials, there’s likely more coming on that but for this blog I am going to take a detour into what I’ve been working on for student guidance.
Last updated on Jul 21, 2023 11 min read

Using ChatGPT to create teaching materials: marking criteria & rubrics

This is the second in a series of blog posts discussing how I’m using ChatGPT to create teaching materials (see here for part 1 on using it for data simulation and creating MCQs).
Last updated on Jul 4, 2023 14 min read

Using ChatGPT to create teaching materials: Data simulation & MCQs

There’s an overwhelming amount of discussion about student uses of ChatGPT that is mainly concerned with academic misconduct. Whilst I understand that it’s a huge problem (and one I am grappling with for my own assignments), I also think it’s useful to have more examples of how we in the teaching and learning community can use tools like ChatGPT to help make our lives a little easier.
Last updated on Jun 12, 2023 8 min read