From the active classroom to active assessment: a student-centred approach enhancing career readiness and creativity
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, E., & Urie, G. (2025, May)
From the active classroom to active assessment: a student-centred approach enhancing career readiness and creativity. Paper presented at Council for Hospitality Management Education Conference (CHME) 2025, University of Essex, UK
This paper reflects on innovative assessment practice on an undergraduate tourism and hospitality module. Following an extensive redesign to adopt an active learning and dialo...
Balancing Time Equity & Academic Integrity: The Paradox of Deadline Extensions in Higher Education
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cameron, J., Gutu, M., & Kurtzke, S. (2025, April)
Balancing Time Equity & Academic Integrity: The Paradox of Deadline Extensions in Higher Education. Poster presented at Advance HE EDI Conference 2025: The sum of many parts: Embedding intersectionality in HE practice, Newcastle, UK
Universities promote employability; employers expect graduates to meet deadlines; constructive alignment of assessment with learning outcomes (Biggs, 2007) is silent on extens...
Balancing time equity and academic integrity: The paradox of deadline extensions in higher education
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cameron, J., Gutu, M., & Kurtzke, S. (2025, April)
Balancing time equity and academic integrity: The paradox of deadline extensions in higher education. Presented at Advance HE EDI Conference 2025: The sum of many parts: Embedding intersectionality in HE practice, Newcastle, UK
Higher education policies around deadline extensions seek to promote inclusivity yet may inadvertently create inequalities among student groups. This session examines this par...
Re-Thinking “Europe” with Central-Eastern Europe: Towards Non-Occidentalist and Decolonial Epistemics in/of Queer Studies
Book Chapter
Kulpa, R. (2025)
Re-Thinking “Europe” with Central-Eastern Europe: Towards Non-Occidentalist and Decolonial Epistemics in/of Queer Studies. In Go West! Conceptual Explorations of “the West” in the History of Education ( 181-203). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111408989-011
A simple question: What is Europe? is often focal for numerous disciplines such as area studies, cultural geography, history, postcolonial studies, and recently also gender & ...
GenAI use in higher education: stakeholder perceptions and attitudes
Report
Kiezebrink, K., Preston, S., McIlwhan, R., Drumm, L., & Lafferty, N. (2024)
GenAI use in higher education: stakeholder perceptions and attitudes. Advance HE
This project investigates the attitudes and perceptions of higher education students and staff, both academic and professional services, to the use of Generative Artificial In...
Towards Inclusive Intelligence: A Comprehensive Examination of GenAI Attitudes Among Higher Education Stakeholders (Dataset)
Data
Kiezebrink, K., Preston, S., Drumm, L., Lafferty, N., McIlwhan, R., & Cleland, E. (2024)
Towards Inclusive Intelligence: A Comprehensive Examination of GenAI Attitudes Among Higher Education Stakeholders (Dataset). [Data]
This research project aimed to delve into the attitudes and perceptions of diverse higher education stakeholders regarding the integration of Generative Artificial Intelligenc...
Advocating for Change - Enabling Authentic Assessment at Scale
Presentation / Conference
Mahoney, C., Bastow, F., & Finnan, G. (2024, June)
Advocating for Change - Enabling Authentic Assessment at Scale. Presented at International AHE Conference 2024, Manchester
Background: Authentic assessment aims to connect learning to real-world issues which are meaningful to the learner (Villarroel et al 2018; Gillard-Cook; West 2014; Rule 2007)....
“This Wall Does More for Mental Health than the Uni Does”: Theorising Toilet Graffiti as Safe House for Students
Journal Article
Victoria, M. (2025)
“This Wall Does More for Mental Health than the Uni Does”: Theorising Toilet Graffiti as Safe House for Students. Innovative Higher Education, 50(1), 27-58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-024-09712-w
Despite sometimes being considered unworthy of scholarly attention, the study of toilet graffiti, also known as latrinalia, has nevertheless garnered increasing interest among...
UK perspectives & experiences of "Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers"
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, May)
UK perspectives & experiences of "Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers". Presented at Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, PL
In this invited contribution, Dr Kulpa will share reflections on how EDI (equality, diversity, and inclusion) and decolonialisation work in the UK academic contexts, embedded ...
The first national subject benchmark statement for UK higher education in policing: the importance of effective partnership and collaboration
Journal Article
Pepper, I., Cox, C., Fee, R., Horgan, S., Jarman, R., Jones, M., …Tattum, C. (in press)
The first national subject benchmark statement for UK higher education in policing: the importance of effective partnership and collaboration. Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, https://doi.org/10.1108/heswbl-02-2023-0042
Purpose
The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) for Higher Education in the UK focuses on maintaining, enhancing and standardising the quality of higher education. Of significant ...