CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

As I read more on interdisciplinarity, learn more about it through my daily work, talk more to colleagues who do fascinating...

I want to introduce the concept of ‘enough expertise’ into higher education – particularly with respect to teaching undergraduates. The...

The notion that 10,000 hours is what is required to reach expertise in a given area has been popularised by Malcolm Gladwell and appeared...

The experience of life is beset with contradiction, even paradoxes. To say this is banal yet it touches the deepest parts of human...

I had a nice conversation with one of my favourite philosophers at UCL recently, a man I respect greatly. His main research area has been...

There is anxiety that the UK is not producing enough PhD level researchers, particularly in science and engineering. The view of some...

Currently my work has me thinking about future employment, the world of work and the role of universities in preparing students for this...

This blog gives my intellectual and academic heritage. Paternal Grandfather: E H Gombrich and also here, at the Gombrich archive....

Our collective social, political and economic stability is like a ship. This ship travels the waves of history, floating on the seas of...

My friend, the chemist and economist Peter Bowman, reminds me that money is ‘crystallised trust’. Another friend, the Art Historian...

Leaving aside the discussion of value for money from a university education, why, if learning is what you are interested in, should you...

Our modern economies revolve around money. The health of the economy, in one way or another, is measured in terms of sums of money. When...

We are told by the media that any regulation of the financial sector will result in that sector ‘going elsewhere’, taking their business...

I hold that you get the best understanding of something by looking at it from many different angles. You can think of this as...

A debt that will not be repaid is a theft. A system based on debt only works if the creditors believe they will get their money back....

I don’t think the London riots of 2011 have one simple explanation. But for one view of why these things happen and the legitimacy of...

I write as an amateur in economics. By that I mean that no-one has yet paid me for my views on economics, nor do I have any formal...

I’ve been thinking about my grandfather EH Gombrich recently, and what he would have made of this talk of interdisciplinarity and what we...

There is concern among students, their parents and guardians, politicians and the media that university students should get ‘value for...

I guess the big deal about starting a blog is what you put out there first. I feel daunted about what stuff should first be committed for...