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Study skills are not the answer to students’ academic woes

Digital Artefact

Richards, K., & Pilcher, N. (2021)

Study skills are not the answer to students’ academic woes. [Blog]

Piracy defense strategies for shipping companies and ships: A mixed empirical approach

Journal Article

Tseng, P., Her, Z., & Pilcher, N. (2021)

Piracy defense strategies for shipping companies and ships: A mixed empirical approach. Maritime Transport Research, 2, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.martra.2021.100020

Piracy attacks constitute a serious threat against which ships must be ready to defend themselves, particularly given the financial, political and logistical challenges involv...

From ‘Text’ to ‘Teapot’ to ‘Tinkerbell’ – Supporting Students in their Subjects

Digital Artefact

Richards, K., & Pilcher, N. (2021)

From ‘Text’ to ‘Teapot’ to ‘Tinkerbell’ – Supporting Students in their Subjects. [Blog]

This #Take5 post is brought to you from Kendall Richards and NIck Pilcher of Edinburgh Napier University – who presented on this topic at the fabulous ScotHELD Winter 2021 Con...

Dealing with the Competition of English-language Export Editions: Voices from the Dutch Trade Book Market

Journal Article

Trentacosti, G., & Pilcher, N. (2021)

Dealing with the Competition of English-language Export Editions: Voices from the Dutch Trade Book Market. Publishing Research Quarterly, 37, 278-292. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-021-09798-6

This project explores the responses of the Dutch trade book market to the ever-increasing influx of Anglophone publications. Based on in-depth interviews (n = 42) carried out ...

Considering Generic Study Skills and the roles of Academic Advisers

Presentation / Conference

Richards, K., & Pilcher, N. (2021, January)

Considering Generic Study Skills and the roles of Academic Advisers. Presented at ScotHELD Winter 2021 Conference, Online

In this short session we draw on work we have done over a number of years but primarily on a recent paper published in Teaching in Higher Education entitled ‘Study Skills: neo...

Study Skills: neoliberalism’s perfect Tinkerbell

Journal Article

Richards, K., & Pilcher, N. (in press)

Study Skills: neoliberalism’s perfect Tinkerbell. Teaching in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2020.1839745

We argue that current approaches to Study Skills support are presented as being a panacea for resolving the issues presented by neoliberal approaches to educational expansion....

The UK private housebuilding sector: social media perspectives

Journal Article

Craig, N., Pilcher, N., MacKenzie, R., & Boothman, C. (2021)

The UK private housebuilding sector: social media perspectives. International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, 14(3), https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhma-05-2020-0051

Purpose The UK private housebuilding sector is the key supplier of new-build homes for customers, constituting a fifth of the entire UK construction industry. Yet, despite the...

Measuring the effectiveness of English medium instruction shipping courses

Journal Article

Tseng, P., Pilcher, N., & Richards, K. (2020)

Measuring the effectiveness of English medium instruction shipping courses. Maritime Business Review, 5(4), 351-371. https://doi.org/10.1108/mabr-10-2019-0042

Purpose: Shipping courses contain much technical and specialist knowledge and present particular challenges for English medium instruction (EMI). This paper aims to investigat...

How a particular view of language enables neoliberalism in student support – and how to resist it.

Presentation / Conference

Richards, K., & Pilcher, N. (2020, May)

How a particular view of language enables neoliberalism in student support – and how to resist it. Paper presented at DPR20 Discourse, Power and Resistance the values of education, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

In this presentation, extending previous research, the authors argue that a particular view of language which sees it as a concrete abstract objectivist entity separable from ...

Aligning the times: Exploring the convergence of researchers, policy makers and research evidence in higher education policy making

Journal Article

Smith, K., Fernie, S., & Pilcher, N. (in press)

Aligning the times: Exploring the convergence of researchers, policy makers and research evidence in higher education policy making. Research in Education, https://doi.org/10.1177/0034523720920677

The complexity of contemporary higher education policy making and the multitude of evidences and actors in policy networks mean that relationships between higher education res...