Mike Ryder

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Interdisciplinary researcher and award-winning teacher with a background in professional marketing. My research explores the impact of new technologies, and the philosophical relationship between humans and machines.

Prior to my life in academia I worked in the diverse fields of video games, healthcare and higher education.

For more information, see my website www.mjryder.net.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Lecturer, Lancaster University
  • 2019–2022
    Teaching Fellow, Lancaster University
  • 2018–2019
    Associate Lecturer, Lancaster University

Education

  • 2023 
    Lancaster University, PGCAP
  • 2020 
    Lancaster University, PhD English Literature
  • 2014 
    Brunel University, MA English Literature (distinction)

Publications

  • 2026
    Science Fiction and the Future of War, Routledge
  • 2026
    Advertising: A Practitioner Perspective, Bloomsbury
  • 2025
    Role of science fiction in conceptualising the reproductive future: a linguistic and literary perspective, Medical Humanities
  • 2024
    'Using OODA Loops to Build Sustainable Practice into Business Education' (book chapter), Sustainability in Business Education, Research and Practices
  • 2024
    Interdisciplinarity, huh?, Journal of Customer Behaviour
  • 2024
    Ethics and Autonomy in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Word for World is Forest, Extrapolation
  • 2023
    The Literature of Drones: Ethics and Remote Killing in Ender’s Game, Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction
  • 2023
    Are undergraduate internships worth the effort?: Time to reconceptualize work-based learning for building protean meta-competencies, Studies in Higher Education
  • 2023
    Re-routing development in peripheral regions: exploiting anchor institution networks for micro/SME enterprise growth and innovation, Journal of Place Management and Development
  • 2022
    Rethinking reflective practice: John Boyd's OODA loop as an alternative to Kolb, International Journal of Management Education
  • 2022
    Lessons from science fiction: Frederik Pohl and the robot prosumer, Journal of Consumer Culture
  • 2021
    Conscripts from birth: War and soldiery in the grim darkness of the far future, Fantastika
  • 2020
    EMSIAC Wars: Re-inserting the Human in Bernard Wolfe’s Limbo, Extrapolation
  • 2019
    Microfascism and the double exclusion in Flowers for Algernon, Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction
  • 2019
    ‘The Trouble with Joi’ (book chapter), Blade Runner 2049 and Philosophy

Professional Memberships

  • CMBE
  • SFHEA

Contact Mike for

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  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision