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...
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 ...