Matt Lumb
Biographic Data
| ID | 5848581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Lumb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Lumb |
| SIGNATURE | LUMB M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7788-1956 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Critiquing uncritical EDI in higher education
Higher education (HE) systems and organisations across the planet have been significantly transformed. Framed primarily as businesses and constituted by individualised mobility and enterprise, HE is now understood to be explicitly driven by globalised imperatives of commercialisation, marketisation and corporatisation (Kahn and Misiaszek, 2019). Through this framing of HE, concerns for the wider social good have been profoundly undermined, and pr…
‘I felt like I was the only person in the world studying’
Higher education study has become more accessible to rural places through the development of stronger technologies, interfaces and pedagogy for online study. However, while these have made higher education more accessible, they also overlook the substantial impact that social circumstances and resources have on the means to meaningfully participate in higher education. Our study, conducted with 38 online higher education students, demonstrates ho…
What are the affordances of the digital music space in alternative education? A reflection on an exploratory music outreach project in rural Australia
In Australia, access to music education is inequitable due to the challenges of distance, different state education systems and a lack of resources in schools. As a means to address this social justice issue, we explore here the viability and effects of a digitally based music outreach programme undertaken in collaboration with Hands on Learning (HOL), an alternative education provider. The programme was delivered over 6 weeks using GarageBand to…
Higher education for times of climate crisis – critical awareness, purpose and community
Climate change impacts cascade across scales and sectors, and present specific threats to education institutions and systems, including reduced educational access, participation and attainment by students. In this paper, we set out the pursuit of climate change mitigation and adaptation responses, grounded in commitments to equity and justice, as a renewed fundamental purpose for higher education. To this end, we suggest the understanding of publ…
Obscenity and fabrication in equity and widening participation methodologies
Equity and widening participation (EWP) initiatives in Australia are increasingly reimagined in policy as sites where participants are constructed as competitor‐individuals, with education considered only in terms of employability, social mobility and nation‐state market competition. In the context of EWP outreach, and with school students in particular, this can transpire into demands for narrow forms of ‘legitimate’ aspirations. Goffman defines…
Evaluation for equity
Formal evaluation of policies, programmes and people has become ubiquitous in contemporary western contexts. This is the case for equity and widening participation (WP) agendas in higher education, for which evaluation is often required to measure ‘what works’. Although evaluation has a ‘fundamentally social, political, and value-oriented character’ (Guba and Lincoln. 1989. Fourth Generation Evaluation. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 7), an experimental…
Obscenity and fabrication in equity and widening participation methodologies
Equity and widening participation (EWP) initiatives in Australia are increasingly reimagined in policy as sites where participants are constructed as competitor‐individuals, with education considered only in terms of employability, social mobility and nation‐state market competition. In the context of EWP outreach, and with school students in particular, this can transpire into demands for narrow forms of ‘legitimate’ aspirations. Goffman defines…
Evaluation for equity
Formal evaluation of policies, programmes and people has become ubiquitous in contemporary western contexts. This is the case for equity and widening participation (WP) agendas in higher education, for which evaluation is often required to measure ‘what works’. Although evaluation has a ‘fundamentally social, political, and value-oriented character’ (Guba and Lincoln. 1989. Fourth Generation Evaluation. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 7), an experimental…
What are the affordances of the digital music space in alternative education? A reflection on an exploratory music outreach project in rural Australia
In Australia, access to music education is inequitable due to the challenges of distance, different state education systems and a lack of resources in schools. As a means to address this social justice issue, we explore here the viability and effects of a digitally based music outreach programme undertaken in collaboration with Hands on Learning (HOL), an alternative education provider. The programme was delivered over 6 weeks using GarageBand to…
Higher education for times of climate crisis – critical awareness, purpose and community
Climate change impacts cascade across scales and sectors, and present specific threats to education institutions and systems, including reduced educational access, participation and attainment by students. In this paper, we set out the pursuit of climate change mitigation and adaptation responses, grounded in commitments to equity and justice, as a renewed fundamental purpose for higher education. To this end, we suggest the understanding of publ…
Obscenity and fabrication in equity and widening participation methodologies
Equity and widening participation (EWP) initiatives in Australia are increasingly reimagined in policy as sites where participants are constructed as competitor‐individuals, with education considered only in terms of employability, social mobility and nation‐state market competition. In the context of EWP outreach, and with school students in particular, this can transpire into demands for narrow forms of ‘legitimate’ aspirations. Goffman defines…
Evaluation for equity
Formal evaluation of policies, programmes and people has become ubiquitous in contemporary western contexts. This is the case for equity and widening participation (WP) agendas in higher education, for which evaluation is often required to measure ‘what works’. Although evaluation has a ‘fundamentally social, political, and value-oriented character’ (Guba and Lincoln. 1989. Fourth Generation Evaluation. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 7), an experimental…
Critiquing uncritical EDI in higher education
Higher education (HE) systems and organisations across the planet have been significantly transformed. Framed primarily as businesses and constituted by individualised mobility and enterprise, HE is now understood to be explicitly driven by globalised imperatives of commercialisation, marketisation and corporatisation (Kahn and Misiaszek, 2019). Through this framing of HE, concerns for the wider social good have been profoundly undermined, and pr…
‘I felt like I was the only person in the world studying’
Higher education study has become more accessible to rural places through the development of stronger technologies, interfaces and pedagogy for online study. However, while these have made higher education more accessible, they also overlook the substantial impact that social circumstances and resources have on the means to meaningfully participate in higher education. Our study, conducted with 38 online higher education students, demonstrates ho…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (3 works) · Higher education (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Equity (law (2 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (2 works)