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Markus Roos Breines

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ID324324
NAMEMarkus Roos Breines
GIVEN NAMESMarkus Roos
FAMILY NAMEBreines
SIGNATUREBREINES M R
AFFILIATIONSLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
ORCID0000-0001-7570-9354
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS26
TOTAL CITATIONS93
AUTHOR COUNT26
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6
  • PhotoVoice and metaphors: Narrating experiences of gender-based violence

    Markus Roos Breines, Ketema Degefa et al.•ARTICLE•South African Geographical Journal•2026

    Gender-based violence impacts the lives of many women. There has been growing attention to its physical, mental and social consequences and how gender-based violence can be prevented. Still, many people who have been exposed to it struggle to articulate their experiences because it is challenging to share the impact of gender-based violence with others. In this paper, we portray photos taken through PhotoVoice in Ethiopia and engage with the rese…

  • Exploring homeplace as a nexus of learning and socially reproductive labour: A feminist perspective on internationalisation at a distance

    Open Access•F Melis Cin, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Educational…•2025

    This paper explores the concept of homeplace, examining how it serves as a nexus for learning, reproductive labour, and internationalisation while problematising the gendered and depoliticised nature of international distance education. Drawing on 60 interviews with international distance students at a South African university, the research employs Black and critical feminist perspectives to critique how the blurred boundaries between private and…

  • Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI: Introduction to the Themed Intervention

    Open Access•Jessica Mclean, Louise Reid et al.•ARTICLE•Transactions of the Institute of…•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 20

    The presence of AI in everyday life has dramatically increased and intensified in the last few years. From playing a role in teaching and research activities within educational institutions, to becoming a ubiquitous feature in search engines and in all manner of apps, AI is now omnipresent. While geographers have long examined the role of AI in various ways, in this Themed Intervention we highlight often overlooked dimensions of responsibility, c…

  • Conceptualising place and non-place in internationalisation of higher education research

    Open Access•P Raghuram, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Globalisation Societies and…•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 70

    Space and place are central concepts in research on the internationalisation of higher education. However, although the spaces of international student migration have been theorised (Raghuram, 2013), there is a limited understanding of how place matters in the internationalisation literature. This paper schematises this literature to highlight the main ways in which place and internationalisation have been brought together in the current research…

  • Postcolonial economies and subaltern international students

    Open Access•Markus Roos Breines, P Raghuram et al.•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2025•References: 15

  • Contribution of malnutrition to infant and child deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

    Open Access•Zachary J Madewell, Adama Mamby Keita et al.•ARTICLE•BMJ Global Health•2024

    Introduction Malnutrition contributes to 45% of all childhood deaths globally, but these modelled estimates lack direct measurements in countries with high malnutrition and under-5 mortality rates. We investigated malnutrition’s role in infant and child deaths in the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network. Methods We analysed CHAMPS data from seven sites (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and…

  • Child mortality in Eastern Ethiopia: Acceptability of Postmortem minimally invasive tissue sampling in a predominantly muslim community

    Open Access•Ketema Degefa, Mohammad Aliyi et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2024

    Mortality surveillance requires a thorough understanding of the cultural, religious, and sociocultural aspects that may affect the acceptability of MITS. MITS research should be conducted close to communities, involving community members, incorporating religious perspectives, and promoting health outreach campaigns to facilitate sociocultural perceptions of the research activities

  • De-migranticizing as methodology: Rethinking migration studies through immobility and liminality

    Open Access•P Raghuram, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Comparative Migration Studies•2024•Cited by: 5•References: 33

    De-migranticization is becoming a core strategy for overcoming the fetishization of migrants in migration studies. However, this shift in perspectives raises questions about what categories to use instead. This paper contributes to these debates by considering the potential of studying immobility as a tool for de-migranticization. It looks at immobility through the lens of liminality: as a transitory phase, as a transformative stage and as one wh…

  • Unpacking the Hidden Curricula in Educational Automation: A Methodology for Ethical Praxis

    Open Access•Michael Gallagher, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Postdigital Science and Education•2023

    The future of educational automation in higher education is commonly seen as an inevitable trajectory and beyond the control of individual institutions or communities. Much research has focused on how such technologies can remove agency and reproduce inequalities through encoded biases. Indeed, many conceptualisations of educational automation are problematic, but less is known about what can be done to take more control over them. By moving away…

  • Ghost Hunting in the Broken Archives: Re-Historicizing Digital Education in an Institutional Context

    Open Access•Michael Gallagher, Stuart Nicol et al.•ARTICLE•Postdigital Science and Education•2023

    Digital education is often presented as breaking from tradition. A failure to account for how digital education emerges from historical institutional activity is problematic insofar as this activity continues to circulate through the present and future, appearing and disappearing in often unexpected ways. Using Derrida’s hauntology as a theoretical lens, this paper traces how a digital education initiative at the University of Edinburgh in 2003 c…

  • A return to Teacherbot: Rethinking the development of educational technology at the University of Edinburgh

    Markus Roos Breines, Michael Gallagher•ARTICLE•Teaching in Higher Education•2023

    In the market discourses of technological disruption, higher education institutions have routinely been positioned in deficit models and of anachronistic approaches to teaching at odds with the types of educational futures being presented by commercial organisations. Predominantly, automation technologies in the form of artificial intelligence are being promoted as the future of teaching. In this paper, on the other hand, we explore the prospects…

  • Care for Transactions

    Open Access•Adrian J Bailey, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Transactions of the Institute of…•2023•Cited by: 7•References: 82

    In this editorial we ask key questions about what it means to publish ‘a journal’ in a world of publishing which is driven by individual article metrics and online access. Seeing the value of journals as venues for intellectual debate, we therefore set out a renewed vision as to how the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers can provide space for more collective and collaborative approaches to geographical debate. This approach revo…

  • Way‐finding agendas through Transactions

    Open Access•James Esson, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Transactions of the Institute of…•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 44

    This is the first in a series of occasional editorials in which we guide our readers through groups of papers that we consider to be ‘way‐finding’ contributions to geographical debates. Our emphasis on ‘way‐finding’ and navigating through scholarly work engages a tension we identified around Transactions ' remit of publishing so‐called ‘landmark’ papers which are likely to stimulate and shape research agendas in Geography. We use this editorial a…

  • Transnational online research: Recognising multiple contexts in Skype-to-phone interviews

    Open Access•F Melis Cin, Clare Madge et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 37

    This paper lies at the intersection of discussions surrounding digitally mediated research methods and transnational research projects. It contributes to the current methodological debate surrounding online interviewing by focusing on tensions and affordances involved in Skype-to-phone interviewing in a transnational research context. While the Skype-to-phone facility does indeed increase further access to global participants, complex power hiera…

  • Using traditional healers to treat child malnutrition: A qualitative study of health-seeking behaviour in eastern Ethiopia

    Open Access•Ketema Degefa, Adugna Tadesse et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2022

    Through an exploration of people's own terminology and understandings of what a malnourished child is, as well as the underlying reasons for their illness, this paper explores how people understand malnutrition symptoms and why many tend to rely on healers rather than seeking care from health centres

  • Re-producing public space: The changing everyday production of outdoor retail markets

    Open Access•MMP MMP, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Geography•2022•Cited by: 4•References: 4

    In 2020, nation states across Europe restricted access to, and use of, public space to prevent the spread of COVID-19. As almost all public spaces in Europe were consequently affected by restrictive measures, so too did outdoor retail markets drastically change. Some had to close down completely, whereas others operated under the sway of severe limitations for traders and customers. By re-engaging with the work of the late Michael Sorkin, it coul…

  • Moving marketplaces: Understanding public space from a relational mobility perspective

    Open Access•Emil Van Eck, Sophie Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Cities•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 33

    Research on outdoor retail markets has focused on the diverse ways in which markets constitute public spaces where diversity and social inclusion coexist with conflict and reproduction of inequalities. This approach has prompted existing studies to focus on place-politics in terms of group- and spatially-bounded processes. In this paper, we take a relational mobility perspective to show that markets are not delineated and fixed entities. By appro…

  • Ontological Transparency, (In)visibility, and Hidden Curricula: Critical Pedagogy Amidst Contentious Edtech

    Open Access•Michael Gallagher, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Postdigital Science and Education•2021

    The steady migration of higher education online has accelerated in the wake of Covid-19. The implications of this migration on critical praxis—the theory-in-practice of pedagogy—deserve further scrutiny. This paper explores how teacher and student-led educational technology research and development can help rethink online critical praxis. The paper is based on a recent research project at the University of Edinburgh that speculatively explored th…

  • Surfacing knowledge mobilities in higher education: Reconfiguring the teacher function through automation

    Michael Gallagher, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Learning Media and Technology•2021

    Automation is becoming increasingly common in higher education. This is generally posed around accepting large number of students while seeking to keep faculty numbers static and casualising an already fragmented academic labour market. Much of this automation is positioned around perceived gains (efficiency, time, cost) and learning personalisation (personal assistants as a means of providing support). Yet there has been little work in exploring…

  • Disentangling Following: Implications and Practicalities of Mobile Methods

    Open Access•Markus Roos Breines, Joanna Menet et al.•ARTICLE•Mobilities•2021•Cited by: 7•References: 50

    The increasing interest in mobilities among social scientists over the past two decades has generated new research approaches to deepen the understanding of people’s diverse movements. These methods have focused on capturing research participants’ mobilities, but also led to new ways of thinking about researchers’ mobilities as a strategy to collect data. In this paper, we explore the relationship between researchers and research participants’ mo…

  • Social media among African students: Recentring typologies of non-use

    Open Access•Markus Roos Breines, Clare Madge et al.•ARTICLE•Digital Geography and Society•2020•Cited by: 4•References: 13

    Scholars are increasingly starting to engage in analysing non-use of social media among higher education students, but to date there lacks a framework within which to do so. Toward this end, this article identifies four key themes associated with not using social media to develop a typology of social media non-use. The themes are: 1) exclusion which may be owing to access problems or the social environment on social media; 2) distrust owing to di…

  • Distance education as socio‐material assemblage: Place, distribution, and aggregation

    Open Access•Ashley Gunter, P Raghuram et al.•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 6

    This paper outlines some of the material assemblages that are formed in international distance education (DE) in Africa. It offers a first exploratory study of materialities in DE and how they potentially distribute and aggregate to form a network to provide education. Through the use of interviews, students lived experiences are explored to unpack the multiplicity of networks needed to overcome the de‐aggregated and distributed institution. The …

  • Beyond #FeesMustFall: International students, fees and everyday agency in the era of decolonisation

    Open Access•P Raghuram, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2020•Cited by: 11•References: 21

    The #FeesMustFall movement focused on the financial struggles of historically disadvantaged black students in South Africa. However, if decolonisation is to go beyond national boundaries and to incorporate pan-African visions fees must fall, not only in South Africa, but also for international students. Yet, international students and their financial situations are often overlooked in discussions over fees as they are seen as foreigners, or as pr…

  • Ethnicity across regional boundaries: Migration and the politics of inequality in Ethiopia

    Markus Roos Breines•ARTICLE•New Community•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 30

    Increasing migration across the world has transformed the politics of identity in recent decades, which has influenced how people experience and narrate ethnicity. The rigid Ethiopian political system of ethnic federalism makes ethnicity an official and permanent component of individual identity and group belonging to ethnic-based regions. At the same time, the government has enabled increased internal migration and facilitated ethnic diversity o…

  • The same course, different access: The digital divide between urban and rural distance education students in South Africa

    Reuben Lembani, Ashley Gunter et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Geography in Higher…•2019•Cited by: 15•References: 3

    Access to education is a significant determinant in future success, not only for a country but equally for individuals. Higher Education (HE) thus is an integral part of the Sustainable Development Goals and vital in supporting African development. Despite this, there is often a lack of access to HE in many parts of Africa, distance education can subsequently play an important role in increasing access to education by providing materials online. …

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  • Infrastructures of immobility: Enabling international distance education students in Africa tonotmove

    Open Access•Markus Roos Breines, P Raghuram et al.•ARTICLE•Mobilities•2019•Cited by: 20•References: 89

    There is now a large literature discussing how mobilities are part of contemporary everyday power geometries and is a resource to which people have unequal access. This body of work has, thus, valorised mobility as a desirable good. Why some people choose immobility and what has to be mobilised to enable this immobility has received much less attention. This paper draws on interviews with international distance education students in Namibia and Z…

  • The same course, different access: The digital divide between urban and rural distance education students in South Africa

    Reuben Lembani, Ashley Gunter et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Geography in Higher…•2019•Cited by: 15•References: 3

    Access to education is a significant determinant in future success, not only for a country but equally for individuals. Higher Education (HE) thus is an integral part of the Sustainable Development Goals and vital in supporting African development. Despite this, there is often a lack of access to HE in many parts of Africa, distance education can subsequently play an important role in increasing access to education by providing materials online. …

  • Beyond #FeesMustFall: International students, fees and everyday agency in the era of decolonisation

    Open Access•P Raghuram, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2020•Cited by: 11•References: 21

    The #FeesMustFall movement focused on the financial struggles of historically disadvantaged black students in South Africa. However, if decolonisation is to go beyond national boundaries and to incorporate pan-African visions fees must fall, not only in South Africa, but also for international students. Yet, international students and their financial situations are often overlooked in discussions over fees as they are seen as foreigners, or as pr…

  • Care for Transactions

    Open Access•Adrian J Bailey, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Transactions of the Institute of…•2023•Cited by: 7•References: 82

    In this editorial we ask key questions about what it means to publish ‘a journal’ in a world of publishing which is driven by individual article metrics and online access. Seeing the value of journals as venues for intellectual debate, we therefore set out a renewed vision as to how the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers can provide space for more collective and collaborative approaches to geographical debate. This approach revo…

  • Disentangling Following: Implications and Practicalities of Mobile Methods

    Open Access•Markus Roos Breines, Joanna Menet et al.•ARTICLE•Mobilities•2021•Cited by: 7•References: 50

    The increasing interest in mobilities among social scientists over the past two decades has generated new research approaches to deepen the understanding of people’s diverse movements. These methods have focused on capturing research participants’ mobilities, but also led to new ways of thinking about researchers’ mobilities as a strategy to collect data. In this paper, we explore the relationship between researchers and research participants’ mo…

  • Distance education as socio‐material assemblage: Place, distribution, and aggregation

    Open Access•Ashley Gunter, P Raghuram et al.•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 6

    This paper outlines some of the material assemblages that are formed in international distance education (DE) in Africa. It offers a first exploratory study of materialities in DE and how they potentially distribute and aggregate to form a network to provide education. Through the use of interviews, students lived experiences are explored to unpack the multiplicity of networks needed to overcome the de‐aggregated and distributed institution. The …

  • De-migranticizing as methodology: Rethinking migration studies through immobility and liminality

    Open Access•P Raghuram, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Comparative Migration Studies•2024•Cited by: 5•References: 33

    De-migranticization is becoming a core strategy for overcoming the fetishization of migrants in migration studies. However, this shift in perspectives raises questions about what categories to use instead. This paper contributes to these debates by considering the potential of studying immobility as a tool for de-migranticization. It looks at immobility through the lens of liminality: as a transitory phase, as a transformative stage and as one wh…

  • Transnational online research: Recognising multiple contexts in Skype-to-phone interviews

    Open Access•F Melis Cin, Clare Madge et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 37

    This paper lies at the intersection of discussions surrounding digitally mediated research methods and transnational research projects. It contributes to the current methodological debate surrounding online interviewing by focusing on tensions and affordances involved in Skype-to-phone interviewing in a transnational research context. While the Skype-to-phone facility does indeed increase further access to global participants, complex power hiera…

  • Re-producing public space: The changing everyday production of outdoor retail markets

    Open Access•MMP MMP, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Geography•2022•Cited by: 4•References: 4

    In 2020, nation states across Europe restricted access to, and use of, public space to prevent the spread of COVID-19. As almost all public spaces in Europe were consequently affected by restrictive measures, so too did outdoor retail markets drastically change. Some had to close down completely, whereas others operated under the sway of severe limitations for traders and customers. By re-engaging with the work of the late Michael Sorkin, it coul…

  • Social media among African students: Recentring typologies of non-use

    Open Access•Markus Roos Breines, Clare Madge et al.•ARTICLE•Digital Geography and Society•2020•Cited by: 4•References: 13

    Scholars are increasingly starting to engage in analysing non-use of social media among higher education students, but to date there lacks a framework within which to do so. Toward this end, this article identifies four key themes associated with not using social media to develop a typology of social media non-use. The themes are: 1) exclusion which may be owing to access problems or the social environment on social media; 2) distrust owing to di…

  • Moving marketplaces: Understanding public space from a relational mobility perspective

    Open Access•Emil Van Eck, Sophie Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Cities•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 33

    Research on outdoor retail markets has focused on the diverse ways in which markets constitute public spaces where diversity and social inclusion coexist with conflict and reproduction of inequalities. This approach has prompted existing studies to focus on place-politics in terms of group- and spatially-bounded processes. In this paper, we take a relational mobility perspective to show that markets are not delineated and fixed entities. By appro…

  • Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI: Introduction to the Themed Intervention

    Open Access•Jessica Mclean, Louise Reid et al.•ARTICLE•Transactions of the Institute of…•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 20

    The presence of AI in everyday life has dramatically increased and intensified in the last few years. From playing a role in teaching and research activities within educational institutions, to becoming a ubiquitous feature in search engines and in all manner of apps, AI is now omnipresent. While geographers have long examined the role of AI in various ways, in this Themed Intervention we highlight often overlooked dimensions of responsibility, c…

  • Way‐finding agendas through Transactions

    Open Access•James Esson, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Transactions of the Institute of…•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 44

    This is the first in a series of occasional editorials in which we guide our readers through groups of papers that we consider to be ‘way‐finding’ contributions to geographical debates. Our emphasis on ‘way‐finding’ and navigating through scholarly work engages a tension we identified around Transactions ' remit of publishing so‐called ‘landmark’ papers which are likely to stimulate and shape research agendas in Geography. We use this editorial a…

  • Ethnicity across regional boundaries: Migration and the politics of inequality in Ethiopia

    Markus Roos Breines•ARTICLE•New Community•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 30

    Increasing migration across the world has transformed the politics of identity in recent decades, which has influenced how people experience and narrate ethnicity. The rigid Ethiopian political system of ethnic federalism makes ethnicity an official and permanent component of individual identity and group belonging to ethnic-based regions. At the same time, the government has enabled increased internal migration and facilitated ethnic diversity o…

  • Conceptualising place and non-place in internationalisation of higher education research

    Open Access•P Raghuram, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Globalisation Societies and…•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 70

    Space and place are central concepts in research on the internationalisation of higher education. However, although the spaces of international student migration have been theorised (Raghuram, 2013), there is a limited understanding of how place matters in the internationalisation literature. This paper schematises this literature to highlight the main ways in which place and internationalisation have been brought together in the current research…

  • The same course, different access: The digital divide between urban and rural distance education students in South Africa

    Reuben Lembani, Ashley Gunter et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Geography in Higher…•2019•Cited by: 15•References: 3

    Access to education is a significant determinant in future success, not only for a country but equally for individuals. Higher Education (HE) thus is an integral part of the Sustainable Development Goals and vital in supporting African development. Despite this, there is often a lack of access to HE in many parts of Africa, distance education can subsequently play an important role in increasing access to education by providing materials online. …

  • Infrastructures of immobility: Enabling international distance education students in Africa tonotmove

    Open Access•Markus Roos Breines, P Raghuram et al.•ARTICLE•Mobilities•2019•Cited by: 20•References: 89

    There is now a large literature discussing how mobilities are part of contemporary everyday power geometries and is a resource to which people have unequal access. This body of work has, thus, valorised mobility as a desirable good. Why some people choose immobility and what has to be mobilised to enable this immobility has received much less attention. This paper draws on interviews with international distance education students in Namibia and Z…

  • Social media among African students: Recentring typologies of non-use

    Open Access•Markus Roos Breines, Clare Madge et al.•ARTICLE•Digital Geography and Society•2020•Cited by: 4•References: 13

    Scholars are increasingly starting to engage in analysing non-use of social media among higher education students, but to date there lacks a framework within which to do so. Toward this end, this article identifies four key themes associated with not using social media to develop a typology of social media non-use. The themes are: 1) exclusion which may be owing to access problems or the social environment on social media; 2) distrust owing to di…

  • Distance education as socio‐material assemblage: Place, distribution, and aggregation

    Open Access•Ashley Gunter, P Raghuram et al.•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 6

    This paper outlines some of the material assemblages that are formed in international distance education (DE) in Africa. It offers a first exploratory study of materialities in DE and how they potentially distribute and aggregate to form a network to provide education. Through the use of interviews, students lived experiences are explored to unpack the multiplicity of networks needed to overcome the de‐aggregated and distributed institution. The …

  • Beyond #FeesMustFall: International students, fees and everyday agency in the era of decolonisation

    Open Access•P Raghuram, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2020•Cited by: 11•References: 21

    The #FeesMustFall movement focused on the financial struggles of historically disadvantaged black students in South Africa. However, if decolonisation is to go beyond national boundaries and to incorporate pan-African visions fees must fall, not only in South Africa, but also for international students. Yet, international students and their financial situations are often overlooked in discussions over fees as they are seen as foreigners, or as pr…

  • Ethnicity across regional boundaries: Migration and the politics of inequality in Ethiopia

    Markus Roos Breines•ARTICLE•New Community•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 30

    Increasing migration across the world has transformed the politics of identity in recent decades, which has influenced how people experience and narrate ethnicity. The rigid Ethiopian political system of ethnic federalism makes ethnicity an official and permanent component of individual identity and group belonging to ethnic-based regions. At the same time, the government has enabled increased internal migration and facilitated ethnic diversity o…

  • Ontological Transparency, (In)visibility, and Hidden Curricula: Critical Pedagogy Amidst Contentious Edtech

    Open Access•Michael Gallagher, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Postdigital Science and Education•2021

    The steady migration of higher education online has accelerated in the wake of Covid-19. The implications of this migration on critical praxis—the theory-in-practice of pedagogy—deserve further scrutiny. This paper explores how teacher and student-led educational technology research and development can help rethink online critical praxis. The paper is based on a recent research project at the University of Edinburgh that speculatively explored th…

  • Surfacing knowledge mobilities in higher education: Reconfiguring the teacher function through automation

    Michael Gallagher, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Learning Media and Technology•2021

    Automation is becoming increasingly common in higher education. This is generally posed around accepting large number of students while seeking to keep faculty numbers static and casualising an already fragmented academic labour market. Much of this automation is positioned around perceived gains (efficiency, time, cost) and learning personalisation (personal assistants as a means of providing support). Yet there has been little work in exploring…

  • Disentangling Following: Implications and Practicalities of Mobile Methods

    Open Access•Markus Roos Breines, Joanna Menet et al.•ARTICLE•Mobilities•2021•Cited by: 7•References: 50

    The increasing interest in mobilities among social scientists over the past two decades has generated new research approaches to deepen the understanding of people’s diverse movements. These methods have focused on capturing research participants’ mobilities, but also led to new ways of thinking about researchers’ mobilities as a strategy to collect data. In this paper, we explore the relationship between researchers and research participants’ mo…

  • Using traditional healers to treat child malnutrition: A qualitative study of health-seeking behaviour in eastern Ethiopia

    Open Access•Ketema Degefa, Adugna Tadesse et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2022

    Through an exploration of people's own terminology and understandings of what a malnourished child is, as well as the underlying reasons for their illness, this paper explores how people understand malnutrition symptoms and why many tend to rely on healers rather than seeking care from health centres

  • Re-producing public space: The changing everyday production of outdoor retail markets

    Open Access•MMP MMP, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Geography•2022•Cited by: 4•References: 4

    In 2020, nation states across Europe restricted access to, and use of, public space to prevent the spread of COVID-19. As almost all public spaces in Europe were consequently affected by restrictive measures, so too did outdoor retail markets drastically change. Some had to close down completely, whereas others operated under the sway of severe limitations for traders and customers. By re-engaging with the work of the late Michael Sorkin, it coul…

  • Moving marketplaces: Understanding public space from a relational mobility perspective

    Open Access•Emil Van Eck, Sophie Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Cities•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 33

    Research on outdoor retail markets has focused on the diverse ways in which markets constitute public spaces where diversity and social inclusion coexist with conflict and reproduction of inequalities. This approach has prompted existing studies to focus on place-politics in terms of group- and spatially-bounded processes. In this paper, we take a relational mobility perspective to show that markets are not delineated and fixed entities. By appro…

  • Unpacking the Hidden Curricula in Educational Automation: A Methodology for Ethical Praxis

    Open Access•Michael Gallagher, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Postdigital Science and Education•2023

    The future of educational automation in higher education is commonly seen as an inevitable trajectory and beyond the control of individual institutions or communities. Much research has focused on how such technologies can remove agency and reproduce inequalities through encoded biases. Indeed, many conceptualisations of educational automation are problematic, but less is known about what can be done to take more control over them. By moving away…

  • Ghost Hunting in the Broken Archives: Re-Historicizing Digital Education in an Institutional Context

    Open Access•Michael Gallagher, Stuart Nicol et al.•ARTICLE•Postdigital Science and Education•2023

    Digital education is often presented as breaking from tradition. A failure to account for how digital education emerges from historical institutional activity is problematic insofar as this activity continues to circulate through the present and future, appearing and disappearing in often unexpected ways. Using Derrida’s hauntology as a theoretical lens, this paper traces how a digital education initiative at the University of Edinburgh in 2003 c…

  • A return to Teacherbot: Rethinking the development of educational technology at the University of Edinburgh

    Markus Roos Breines, Michael Gallagher•ARTICLE•Teaching in Higher Education•2023

    In the market discourses of technological disruption, higher education institutions have routinely been positioned in deficit models and of anachronistic approaches to teaching at odds with the types of educational futures being presented by commercial organisations. Predominantly, automation technologies in the form of artificial intelligence are being promoted as the future of teaching. In this paper, on the other hand, we explore the prospects…

  • Care for Transactions

    Open Access•Adrian J Bailey, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Transactions of the Institute of…•2023•Cited by: 7•References: 82

    In this editorial we ask key questions about what it means to publish ‘a journal’ in a world of publishing which is driven by individual article metrics and online access. Seeing the value of journals as venues for intellectual debate, we therefore set out a renewed vision as to how the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers can provide space for more collective and collaborative approaches to geographical debate. This approach revo…

  • Way‐finding agendas through Transactions

    Open Access•James Esson, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Transactions of the Institute of…•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 44

    This is the first in a series of occasional editorials in which we guide our readers through groups of papers that we consider to be ‘way‐finding’ contributions to geographical debates. Our emphasis on ‘way‐finding’ and navigating through scholarly work engages a tension we identified around Transactions ' remit of publishing so‐called ‘landmark’ papers which are likely to stimulate and shape research agendas in Geography. We use this editorial a…

  • Transnational online research: Recognising multiple contexts in Skype-to-phone interviews

    Open Access•F Melis Cin, Clare Madge et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 37

    This paper lies at the intersection of discussions surrounding digitally mediated research methods and transnational research projects. It contributes to the current methodological debate surrounding online interviewing by focusing on tensions and affordances involved in Skype-to-phone interviewing in a transnational research context. While the Skype-to-phone facility does indeed increase further access to global participants, complex power hiera…

  • Contribution of malnutrition to infant and child deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

    Open Access•Zachary J Madewell, Adama Mamby Keita et al.•ARTICLE•BMJ Global Health•2024

    Introduction Malnutrition contributes to 45% of all childhood deaths globally, but these modelled estimates lack direct measurements in countries with high malnutrition and under-5 mortality rates. We investigated malnutrition’s role in infant and child deaths in the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network. Methods We analysed CHAMPS data from seven sites (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and…

  • Child mortality in Eastern Ethiopia: Acceptability of Postmortem minimally invasive tissue sampling in a predominantly muslim community

    Open Access•Ketema Degefa, Mohammad Aliyi et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2024

    Mortality surveillance requires a thorough understanding of the cultural, religious, and sociocultural aspects that may affect the acceptability of MITS. MITS research should be conducted close to communities, involving community members, incorporating religious perspectives, and promoting health outreach campaigns to facilitate sociocultural perceptions of the research activities

  • De-migranticizing as methodology: Rethinking migration studies through immobility and liminality

    Open Access•P Raghuram, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Comparative Migration Studies•2024•Cited by: 5•References: 33

    De-migranticization is becoming a core strategy for overcoming the fetishization of migrants in migration studies. However, this shift in perspectives raises questions about what categories to use instead. This paper contributes to these debates by considering the potential of studying immobility as a tool for de-migranticization. It looks at immobility through the lens of liminality: as a transitory phase, as a transformative stage and as one wh…

  • Exploring homeplace as a nexus of learning and socially reproductive labour: A feminist perspective on internationalisation at a distance

    Open Access•F Melis Cin, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Educational…•2025

    This paper explores the concept of homeplace, examining how it serves as a nexus for learning, reproductive labour, and internationalisation while problematising the gendered and depoliticised nature of international distance education. Drawing on 60 interviews with international distance students at a South African university, the research employs Black and critical feminist perspectives to critique how the blurred boundaries between private and…

  • Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI: Introduction to the Themed Intervention

    Open Access•Jessica Mclean, Louise Reid et al.•ARTICLE•Transactions of the Institute of…•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 20

    The presence of AI in everyday life has dramatically increased and intensified in the last few years. From playing a role in teaching and research activities within educational institutions, to becoming a ubiquitous feature in search engines and in all manner of apps, AI is now omnipresent. While geographers have long examined the role of AI in various ways, in this Themed Intervention we highlight often overlooked dimensions of responsibility, c…

  • Conceptualising place and non-place in internationalisation of higher education research

    Open Access•P Raghuram, Markus Roos Breines et al.•ARTICLE•Globalisation Societies and…•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 70

    Space and place are central concepts in research on the internationalisation of higher education. However, although the spaces of international student migration have been theorised (Raghuram, 2013), there is a limited understanding of how place matters in the internationalisation literature. This paper schematises this literature to highlight the main ways in which place and internationalisation have been brought together in the current research…

  • Postcolonial economies and subaltern international students

    Open Access•Markus Roos Breines, P Raghuram et al.•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2025•References: 15

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