Mirjam Sophia Glessmer
This is a personal blog which reflects my thoughts and experiences.
All opinions expressed are my own and do not represent my employer.
ORCiDAll opinions expressed are my own and do not represent my employer.
“Efficiency demands that we work smarter and not harder, but is this better for our wellbeing?” That’s the question that Campbell et al. (2025) investigate in their study, and they give away the answer pretty much directly: no, since the article is called “experimental evidence that exerting effort increases meaning“.
I had not come across the term “attention sanctuaries” before, but somehow it spoke to me. There are so many things constantly competing for attention and I often find it difficult to resist the emails that would just take a minute (or five) to respond to, the article I could quickly read, the podcast I […]
To understand why teachers start professionalising in teaching, Bonnevier et al. (2026) analyse critical incidents in teaching. They find that teaching is overwhelmingly perceived as an individual venture where teachers feel left alone with heavy personal responsibilities, and identify four sub themes:
During February this year, I had a phase of reading about the “tyranny of participation“, and this morning on the bus I read the super interesting article “Beyond participation: reimagining silence as pedagogical presence in the university seminar” by Hope (2026), in which she reinterprets silence from a lack of participation to forms of participation […]
I like the “trial by hire” title! And the whole article is fun to read. It’s a bit similar to Kugel (1993)’s “how professors develop as teachers”, in that Post (2011) describes a typical development as a teacher through stages based on a few interviews and a phenomenological approach:
In this very cool project, 8 student researchers interviewed students and staff from 4 different institutions about trust and partnership under the overarching goal of exploring how to strengthen student voice.
What caught my eye about this article was that Bearman et al. (2026) write that “students prioritise their developing values and moral positions over institutional messaging“. Sounds intriguing, and somehow inspires hope in the future, doesn’t it?
This is a really interesting article where Farini (2012) analyses videos of interactions to find trust-building activities that educators do in peace education to build trust between groups of adolescents from different countries.
I talk a lot with teachers about co-creation of learning and teaching, and my own experience matches perfectly what Murphy et al. (2017) describe: “The overarching response was a positive statement followed first with a “but” and then with the issues that could be caused by a partnership approach“.
This is a really cool study: At LU, students have the opportunity to be drawn in a lottery that gives them a spot in the waiting list for affordable student housing — just by the luck of draw, independent of parental income, prior performance, or other factors that might make interpretation of the data difficult. […]
Over the last two years or so, I have been working with a team of colleagues from all across LU to develop a course to prepare students for their future as professionals and citizens in the polycrisis (big and slightly intimidating task!).
This was a fun paper to write with a really interesting mixture of colleagues, both from my current job in Sweden and my Norway days. We discuss four grass root initiatives to create communities to discuss different aspects of teaching in different formats, and why we think each of them worked out.
It is maybe too soon to write a recap of a symposium that ended only hours ago, before I have had time to process it, but here are two things that are on my mind right now (also, did you know that Södertörn is actually Sweden’s 3rd largest island? Not that you would notice you […]
I just watched the CRADLE Seminar Series 2026 #6: Educator uncertainty in fully online programs with Mollie Dollinger and it was so good! Comfort with uncertainty is such a useful lens that I had never really considered before!
