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DB Roberts, 2026 In its broadest sense, decolonization means becoming free from systems of domination and control that have been treated as normal, natural, or unavoidable. This includes not only colonial rule itself, but also the continued dominance of certain ways of thinking, cultures, political systems, economic models, and forms of knowledge over others. In its wider sense it requires we realise that minds become colonized first, whether we are colonizer or colonized. Th

Across many areas of public life, the label solution often carries an oddly disarming effect: once something is presented as a fix, critical scrutiny frequently diminishes. The word itself implies closure, competence and progress, encouraging acceptance before effectiveness has been demonstrated. The framing of an intervention as a ‘solution’ can narrow attention, encouraging optimism while discouraging deeper questioning. The result is not simply misplaced trust but a subtle

Capitalism, Business and Structural Violence I’ve written this blog to help you as business studies students understand business in ways business schools will not teach. I have long believed that by teaching an uncritical, inauthentic, unreflexive and incomplete version of business studies to you, we are sleepwalking you — grooming you — into worsening the existential planetary crises we are daily facing. Planetary survival boundaries being exceeded though growth and consumpt

Or, 'deconfusing' decoloniality. Rebalancing power. Copyright of author Introduction In a March 2023 internal, unpublished survey of...

DB Roberts Racism and discrimination are structural; approaches to EDI must be too When I was a kid in 1970s Northern England, there was...

DB Roberts Probably everyone’s experienced at some time ‘Death by PowerPoint’: a presentation that, rather than engaging your attention, makes you want to run away. Slides packed full of bullet points ‘organizing’ text that appears as a wall of words, and to add insult to injury, the speaker is often duplicating the text. PowerPoint has become a source of ridicule, with Google’s former Research Director, Peter Norvig, declaring it to be more dangerous that a loaded AK47, beca

DB Roberts This article is published in the Journal of Further and Higher Education in 2021 INTRODUCTION It should come as no surprise...

DB Roberts INTRODUCTION This is conceptually a straightforward matter. We should match how we teach to how our brains work. Our brains...

DB Roberts I presented a short paper at the above Conference. The paper was concerned with the idea of a possible universal pedagogy that...