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The Cinematologists PodcastThe Cinematologists Present: Students on ScreenThis special episode of The Cinematologists is a contribution to the Students on Screen project convened by Dr Kay Calver and Dr Bethan Michael-Fox, to coincide with a special issue of Open Screens they have edited, which explores screen representations of students across a plethora of Global screen media forms.On behalf of The Cinematologists, Neil contributed a paper - drawing from his decade-old doctoral work - on representations of film students in anglophone cinema, and put together this episode, which is both a dissemination of and critical artefact of, the special issue.F...
2025-07-311h 51
Reflections on Identity: A podcast series for educatorsRoundtable Episode on Professional Identity and Physical Education and ActivityIn this special roundtable episode of the podcast, Saul Keyworth and Oli Belas (both Senior Lecturers in Higher Education) talk about professional identity in relation to physical education and activity. They discuss how notions of what is deemed socially acceptable in terms of gender, the body, space and movement are based on norms and expectations that they critique as part of their research and informs their own thoughts on what it means to be a teacher and researcher in the field. Key philosophies and theorists in this area are also discussed as are ideas relating to community and collaboration
2025-06-1338 min
Diversifying and Decolonising the UniversityEpisode 15: The Philosophy of Education (with Oli Belas and Neil Hopkins)In this episode, Sara de Sousa talks to Oli Belas and Neil Hopkins about the philosophy of education, including curriculum co-creation and student-led assessment design.
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FURTHER RESOURCES:
Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
Eve Tuck and Wayne Yang, 'Decolonisation is Not a Metaphor'
EPISODE NOTES:
Dr Oli Belas is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at University of Bedfordshire. He teaches across Education and English subject-a...
2024-10-2241 min
The Trans-AtlanticistNovelROMANtics #1: Attica Locke's Bluebird,Bluebird and Heaven, My Homewith Douglas Cowie and Oli Belas
February is African-American History month in the United States, and the Trans-Atlanticist is celebrating with a number of podcasts about African-American authors.
For this first episode of NovelROMANtics, host Dr. Douglas Cowie and his guest, Dr. Oli Belas of University of Bedfordshire, discuss a pair of crime novels by Attica Locke: Blue Bird, Blue Bird and Heaven, My Home, both of which follow black Texas Ranger Darren Matthews as he tries to unravel the truth of a complicated set of white-supremacist hate crimes in rural East Texas.
2021-02-111h 09