Diversity and inclusion in UK Higher Education: staff perspectives on institutional representations and their reality
Journal Article
Richards, K., Pilcher, N., Galbrun, L., Forster, A., & Richards, J. (2023)
Diversity and inclusion in UK Higher Education: staff perspectives on institutional representations and their reality. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 28(4), 647-669. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2023.2253654
This paper examines staff perspectives on institutional representations of a range of areas of diversity and inclusion in a key post-compulsory education sector: that of UK Hi...
Enhancing Student Support in Higher Education: A Subject-Focused Approach
Book
Pilcher, N., & Richards, K. (2022)
Enhancing Student Support in Higher Education: A Subject-Focused Approach. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81724-4
This book is about supporting students in Higher Education using language, and specifically using a combination of written text based linguistic approaches alongside and with ...
Scotland’s History of Animation: An Exploratory Account of the Key Figures and Influential Events
Journal Article
Mortimer, J., Pilcher, N., & Richards, K. (2021)
Scotland’s History of Animation: An Exploratory Account of the Key Figures and Influential Events. Animation, 16(3), 190-206. https://doi.org/10.1177/17468477211052598
Scotland’s history of animation is a forgotten past accomplishment in the animation/VFX sector, with key influential animation professionals having had an impact both at home ...
Using 'Interculturality' to Increase the Value of ELT in Academic Contexts
Book Chapter
Pilcher, N., & Richards, K. (2021)
Using 'Interculturality' to Increase the Value of ELT in Academic Contexts. In M. Victoria, & C. Sangiamchit (Eds.), Interculturality and the English Language Classroom (263-282). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76757-0
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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]
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...
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....
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...
Agile Implementation and Expansive Learning: Identifying Contradictions and Their Resolution Using an Activity Theory Perspective
Conference Proceeding
Chita, P., Cruickshank, P., Smith, C., & Richards, K. (2020)
Agile Implementation and Expansive Learning: Identifying Contradictions and Their Resolution Using an Activity Theory Perspective. In Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. , (3-19). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49392-9_1
A key challenge organisations face when transitioning to agile delivery methods is that of quickly and effectively learning new ways of working. This study posits that fundame...