Scholarship

Essays and thinking on universities, scholarship and artificial intelligence. The essays live on a separate site, with their full references.

Essays

The cold gods of quantity
2026 A field guide to surviving peer review, and a case for publishing with purpose. From an invited talk at the Manipal Institute of Communication.

The age of generation, the end of thought
2025 What place can the university, once a shelter for thought, claim in the new world of synthetic thinking?

A walk to the heavens
2025 The Mahabharata’s last journey, and how large language models work.

At the university

Bournemouth University
Research, teaching and publications.