Publications

Books

• Dispirited: How Contemporary Spirituality Makes Us Stupid, Selfish & Unhappy. (Zero Books 2012)
• The Philosophy of Desire in the Buddhist Pali Canon. Routledge Curzon. March 2005. (Paperback, February 2011)

Articles / Chapters

• In preparation: ‘Resilience, Grit, and Character Education in a Time of Austerity’ (With Dr Nicola Rivers, SOAS/University of Gloucestershire)
• ‘Building Cohort Identity through Social Media.’ Chapter in 2019: Social Media in Higher Education: Case Studies, Reflections and Analysis,Chris Rowell (ed.) Open Book Publishers
• ‘Resisting Resilience: Disrupting Discourses of Self-Efficacy’ (With Nicola Rivers, SOAS/University of Gloucestershire)Pedagogy, Culture and Society, November 2018
• People of the croft: Visualising land, heritage and identity. (With Iain Robertson, University of the Highlands and Islands) Cultural Geographies July 17, 2016
• Abstracting HE Learning Methodologies to Hospital Education Contexts: Some Lesson Learnt. EDULEARN 2015: 7th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies Proceedings pp. 1498-1499. 2015
• ‘Game Over: Calling Time on Kidult Accounts of Masculinity’ in: The Philosophy of Play, edited by Emily Ryall, Wendy Russell, Malcolm MacLean. (Routledge 2013)
• Social Media, Educational Engagement and Ethical Boundaries. ICERI2013 6th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation Proceedings pp. 5948-5950, 2013. International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED)
• What Buddhism is Not: Presenting Buddhism to Students in the 21st Century. Discourse: Journal of the Philosophical and Religious Studies Support Network, (now hosted by the British Association for the Study of Religion). Vol. 10, no. 2, pp.45-48. 2011
• Religious Attitudes to Death – for Open University Health and Social Care textbook: Death and Dying: A Reader 2008
• ‘A Year in the Blogosphere’ in The Journal Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Issue 2, 2007-08, Scholarship of E-Learning. http://resources.glos.ac.uk/tli/lets/journals/lathe/issue2/index.cfm
• ‘Even Philosophers Get the Blues’. Wynn, Neil (ed.) Cross the Water Blues, University of Mississippi Press, 2007. A collected conference volume.
• ‘Buddhist Approaches: Not ‘What?’ but ‘How?’’. Cheetham, David (ed.), Contemporary Methods and Practices in the Philosophy of Religion. Continuum Autumn, 2007.
• ‘A View from the Crossroads’ With Paul Fuller (Sydney) 2008 in Buddhist Studies Review ‘The Weariness of the Buddha’ December, 2005 in Buddhist Studies Review.
• ‘Some notes on Buddhism’. Astley & Loades (ed), Problems in Theology: Evil. T & T Clark, 2003.
• Review Article / Joint Review of, Liberalism, Equality, and Cultural Oppression.
• (Andrew Kernohan 1998.) and Liberalism, Perfectionism and Restraint. (Steven Wall,. 1998.) in The Philosopher’s Magazine, Issue six, Spring 1999.
• ‘The Buddha in the Machine: Buddhism and Artificial Intelligence’ in
• The Philosopher (The Journal of the Philosophy Society of England) Vol. LXXXVI, No.1. (1998)