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...
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 ...
Study Skills: neoliberalism’s perfect Tinkerbell
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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
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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...
Using physical objects as a portal to reveal academic subject identity and thought
Journal Article
Richards, K., & Pilcher, N. (2020)
Using physical objects as a portal to reveal academic subject identity and thought. Qualitative Report, 25(1), 127-144
We are lecturers who help students studying subjects that use word-based writing, non-word based writing such as Mathematics, and non-text based language such as visual semiot...
How a view of language underpins approaches to supporting higher education students that facilitate neo-liberalism, and how to resist this
Journal Article
Richards, K., & Pilcher, N. (2018)
How a view of language underpins approaches to supporting higher education students that facilitate neo-liberalism, and how to resist this. Power and Education, 175774381881180. doi:10.1177/1757743818811801
In this article we argue a particular view of language underpins approaches to supporting students in Higher Education, and that this view facilitates neoliberalism. Universit...
Western and Eastern Building Conservation Philosophies: Perspectives on Permanence and Impermanence
Journal Article
Forster, A. M., Thomson, D., Richards, K., Pilcher, N., & Vettese, S. (2019)
Western and Eastern Building Conservation Philosophies: Perspectives on Permanence and Impermanence. International Journal of Architectural Heritage, 13(6), 870-885. https://doi.org/10.1080/15583058.2018.1490827
In this conceptual paper, we illuminate Western building conservation philosophy practice with insights into Eastern conservation philosophy and associated aesthetic understan...
Constructing English-medium instruction indicators in the shipping courses of Taiwan’s higher education
Journal Article
Tseng, P., Richards, K., & Pilcher, N. (2018)
Constructing English-medium instruction indicators in the shipping courses of Taiwan’s higher education. Maritime Business Review, https://doi.org/10.1108/mabr-07-2017-0020
English is a common language in the global shipping industry and many universities in non-English speaking countries in the world are now moving towards the use of English as ...
Should we teach from materials developed with corpus linguistics?
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Richards, K., & Pilcher, N. (2017)
Should we teach from materials developed with corpus linguistics?. English for Specific Purposes Special Interest Group Journal,
In our presentation for the IATEFL ESP-SIG in Athens our intention was to create ‘wobble’ and genuine dialogue around the issue of the importance of ‘context’ in relation to ...
Academic literacies: the word is not enough
Journal Article
Richards, K., & Pilcher, N. (2017)
Academic literacies: the word is not enough. Teaching in Higher Education, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2017.1360270
For Academic Literacies, the world is textually mediated; written texts and what informs them reveal elements such as subject-discipline practices. Furthermore, multi-modaliti...