In this interview, Lucy Robinson explains to Daniel Frost how her teaching has been shaped by punk and rave subcultures. The interview traces Robinson’s journey through academia and the changes that importance of teaching, growing interest in histories of subcultures, and the marke9sa9on of higher educa9on. She encourages graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) and early career researchers (ECRs) to think more about the range of different experiences that students and teachers bring to the classroom and ways of sustaining radicalism and toxicity in contemporary higher educaon. Robinson describes her punkademic approach to the use of digital technologies, curriculum and assessment design, and collabora9on, drawing on her own teaching prac9ce. In embedding a collecve, do-it-together aXtude in her teaching pracce, Robinson provides a blueprint for adop9ng an interdisciplinary, cri9cally informed pedagogy.
Frost et al. (2026) studied this question.