Public Procurement
The Utrecht University Centre for Public Procurement is hosting its bi-annual Interdisciplinary Public Procurement PhD Forum on 16 May 2023 and has an open call for abstracts for Ph.D candidates.The call is available here and it looks like a great opportunity for Ph.D students to meet their
Public Procurement
Last Friday we had the Into the Northern Light conference, celebrating the life of Steen Treumer and the launch of this book in his memory. It was beautiful and poignant at times, much better than the equivalent in Portugal. Waiting in the panel for my turn to speak was hard
Higher Education
Back in 2020, I wrote a post on this blog stating that GPT-3 was the beginning of the end for academic essays. Until recently, I assumed the bells would toll once GPT-4 came around in the near future, perhaps in early 2023. I was wrong. Last week OpenAI launched ChatGPT,
Higher Education
My good friend Kirsi-Maria Halonen from the University of Lapland asked me to circulate the information that she is looking for a Post-doctoral researcher – EU Internal Market Law and Security of Supply. This is a 24 month role part of the LEXSECURE project. More information is available here and anyone
Public Procurement
I had the chance to speak virtually in two events this week, the first organised by Albert Sanchez-Graells from Bristol and Neli Garbuzanova about Healthcare procurement and commissioning during COVID-19. My short presentation is available here. I really like the narrow and tight focus of this event: 5 speakers, 90
Legal
One of the most puzzling features of the assessment strategy in the UK's Higher Education sector is its over reliance on essays. Students are given a topic or questions and then have a few weeks to write a few thousand words about said topic. On my law degree,