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Resisting resilience : disrupting discourses of self-efficacy (2018)
Journal Article
Webster, D. R., & Rivers, N. (2018). Resisting resilience : disrupting discourses of self-efficacy. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 27(4), 523-535. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2018.1534261

This paper addresses the turn towards discourses of resilience within Higher Education, and its shared conceptual space with notions of 'grit' or the promotion of a Growth Mindset. Of particular concern is how these discourses reinforce simplistic co... Read More about Resisting resilience : disrupting discourses of self-efficacy.

What is Academic Challenge? Vulnerability, Resilience, Grit, Stretch, Toughness and Conceptualising the Student Experience (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Webster, D. R., & O'Leary, R. (2017, November). What is Academic Challenge? Vulnerability, Resilience, Grit, Stretch, Toughness and Conceptualising the Student Experience. Paper presented at 10th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI2017), Seville

Recent focus on the student experience in Higher Education in the UK has moved away from student satisfaction towards student engagement, including the notion of ensuring students are intellectually stimulated and challenged in their learning. Simult... Read More about What is Academic Challenge? Vulnerability, Resilience, Grit, Stretch, Toughness and Conceptualising the Student Experience.

People of the croft: visualising land, heritage and identity (2016)
Journal Article
Robertson, I. J., & Webster, D. R. (2016). People of the croft: visualising land, heritage and identity. cultural geographies, 24(2), 311-318. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474016659235

This short photographic essay emerges from the recognition that identity, landscapes and heritage landscapes in particular are rarely configured and conceptualised wholly linguistically. An affective and emotional charge can involve visual and tactil... Read More about People of the croft: visualising land, heritage and identity.

In Cordoba with Dr Roy Jackson (2015)
Digital Artefact
Webster, D. R. (2015). In Cordoba with Dr Roy Jackson. [YouTube]

Dr David Webster from the Religion, Philosophy & Ethics team at the University of Gloucestershire asks his colleague Dr Roy Jackson - why are you in Cordoba March 16, 2015 In the footsteps.. Talking to Dr Roy Jackson in Cordoba. Ignoring the slightly... Read More about In Cordoba with Dr Roy Jackson.

Resilience and Melancholy (2015)
Digital Artefact
Webster, D. R. (2015). Resilience and Melancholy. [YouTube]

This is a conversation with Dr Robin James about her new book Resilience & Melancholy: pop music, feminism, and neoliberalism.

Talking about religion and fandom: from Jedi and Vampires to Game of Thrones (2014)
Digital Artefact
Webster, D. R. (2014). Talking about religion and fandom: from Jedi and Vampires to Game of Thrones. [Video]

In this short video, Dr David Webster asks Cambridge PhD student Beth Singler about her interest in Religion and fandom, popular culture, and the idea of consciously 'made up' religions.

Indigo Children (2014)
Digital Artefact
Webster, D. R. (2014). Indigo Children. [YouTube]

Dr David Webster from the Religion, Philosophy & Ethics team at the University of Gloucestershire asks Beth Singler about her work on Indigo Children.

Paganism in daily life? (2014)
Digital Artefact
Webster, D. R. (2014). Paganism in daily life?. [YouTube]

This video is about the impact on one's life of Paganism.

Who is the Audience for Contemporary Spiritism? (2014)
Digital Artefact
Webster, D. R. (2014). Who is the Audience for Contemporary Spiritism?. [YouTube]

In this video Dr Dave Webster interviews Sara Duppils about contemporary spiritism. He asks whether those who are interested are members of a dedicated sub-culture, or are from broader social spectrum.

Social Media, Educational Engagement and Ethical Boundaries (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Webster, D. R. (2013, January). Social Media, Educational Engagement and Ethical Boundaries. Paper presented at 6th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Seville

Education has embraced social media. We tweet back and forth with our students. We tweet from field trips. We tweet for the eyes of potential students. We have facebook groups for our courses. We tag each other, have tumblr collections from student e... Read More about Social Media, Educational Engagement and Ethical Boundaries.

Death and Religion (2008)
Book Chapter
Webster, D. R. (2008). Death and Religion. In S. Earle, C. Komaromy, & C. Bartholomew (Eds.), Death and Dying : A Reader (42-47). SAGE Publications

A View from the Crossroads : a dialogue (2008)
Journal Article
Webster, D. R. (2008). A View from the Crossroads : a dialogue. Buddhist Studies Review, 25(1), https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.v25i1.106

A dialogue, somewhat in the spirit of Samuel Becket’s Waiting for Godot, exploring early Buddhist attitudes to views, especially as in the Māgandiya-sutta of the Sutta-nipāta (vv.835-847). Is the aim to have right view, or go beyond views; or is righ... Read More about A View from the Crossroads : a dialogue.

Buddhist Approaches : not 'what' but 'how'? (2008)
Book Chapter
Webster, D. R. (2008). Buddhist Approaches : not 'what' but 'how'?. In D. Cheetham, & R. King (Eds.), Contemporary Practice and Method in the Philosophy of Religion (87-100). Continuum

Among contemporary Anglo-American philosophers and students there is a growing awareness of the need to engage more both with philosophical perspectives of other faith traditions and also the distinctive 'continental' tradition of philosophy. This im... Read More about Buddhist Approaches : not 'what' but 'how'?.

Even Philosophers Get the Blues (2007)
Book Chapter
Webster, D. R. (2007). Even Philosophers Get the Blues. In N. A. Wynn (Ed.), Cross the Water Blues African American Music in Europe (39-50). University Press of Mississippi

Essays analyzing the impact of African American music and its European reverberations