the indefinite time yet to come
having capacity or ability
Future capable is a blog about learning . It’s written by Professor Ruth Bridgstock — educational futurist, leader, scholar, researcher, and educator. This blog contains Ruth’s musings about higher, further, professional, organisational and self-education for innovation, work and life in a changing world, as well as some hand-curated content on related topics. All authored opinions expressed in this blog are of the author, not my employer or other affiliated entities.
Who is Ruth?
I am interested in how we can develop and support ‘future-and-change capable’ learners, educators and educational institutions. I lead research and scholarly activities into the changing world of work, technology and the social challenges we all face, the capabilities that we need, and the approaches to learning and teaching that support their development. I’m also interested in the future-and-change capability of educational institutions, including organisational transformation and educator professional learning.
I am an Australian Office of Learning and Teaching National Senior Teaching Fellow for Graduate Employability 2.0 , which is concerned with how students, teachers and educational institutions can build and use social networks for innovation, career development, and learning. I’m also Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I’ve held several mid-to-senior level leadership roles in universities that have allowed me to explore questions about future-and-change capability. My current role is at Swinburne University of Technology, where I have led work-integrated learning curriculum transformation at scale, and data-informed personalised approaches to student learning and support.
I have significant experience as a keynote speaker, and I also provide consultancy services to educational providers about graduate capabilities, graduate employability and career development, curriculum development, higher education transformation, and educator professional learning. I supervise higher degree students investigating these topics, and am available to examine higher degree theses (other commitments permitting). If you are interested in any of these services, please go ahead and contact me via Linkedin or at my institutional email address.
Ruth’s key research questions:
What individual, institutional and sectoral capabilities are required for us to play positive and meaningful roles in society, and how can we learn them? Which roles can higher, further and professional education can play in the development of these capabilities? How should educational institutions transform themselves to make the most of the affordances of digital technologies technologies, and where what we know about good learning is built into everything we do? How can we set these transformational processes in motion?
Where else can Ruth be found online?
Linkedin: https://au.linkedin.com/in/ruthbridgstock
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=n7hxb64AAAAJ&hl=en
researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ruth_Bridgstock