Becoming a student of English: students experiences of transition into the first year.
Journal Article
Alder, E. (2016)
Becoming a student of English: students experiences of transition into the first year. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474022216628303
This study explored the transition to university as experienced by first-year students of English studies. The first year has been identified by existing research as a critica...
Peer choice - does reviewer self-selection work?
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Hartley, J., Cowan, J., & Rushby, N. (2016)
Peer choice - does reviewer self-selection work?. Learned Publishing, 29(1), 27-29. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1010
The British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET) uses a novel system for obtaining referees by e-mailing the abstracts of submissions to a panel of over 250 referees and a...
Fresh thinking about academic development: authentic, transformative, disruptive?
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Loads, D., & Campbell, F. (2015)
Fresh thinking about academic development: authentic, transformative, disruptive?. International Journal for Academic Development, 20, 355-369. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2015.1083866
We highlight three ways of conceptualising and enacting academic development: firstly as authentic, practice-based activity, secondly in terms of a new transformative paradigm...
Hunt the shadow not the substance: the rise of the career academic in construction education.
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Tennant, S., Murray, M., Forster, A., & Pilcher, N. (2015)
Hunt the shadow not the substance: the rise of the career academic in construction education. Teaching in Higher Education, 20, 723-737. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2015.1070342
Construction education is context-laden, navigating and reflecting the byzantine influences of period, place and person. Despite considerable rhetoric, in UK higher education ...
Poetic transcription with a twist: a means of supporting the development of Identity, agency and a sense of community for the Early Career Academic?
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Smart, F. (2015)
Poetic transcription with a twist: a means of supporting the development of Identity, agency and a sense of community for the Early Career Academic?. Teaching fellows journal, 6-9
Preparing students to face stressful situations in practice.
Journal Article
Fraser, M. (2015)
Preparing students to face stressful situations in practice. BVNA Newsletter,
Re-energising employability-Development of a 'Personal Selling Skills and the sales process' module within Edinburgh Napier University Business School.
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Callister, D., & Douglas, T. (2015)
Re-energising employability-Development of a 'Personal Selling Skills and the sales process' module within Edinburgh Napier University Business School. Enhancement Themes Newsletter, 10,
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Avoiding dialogues of non-discovery through promoting dialogues of discovery.
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Richards, K., & Pilcher, N. (2015)
Avoiding dialogues of non-discovery through promoting dialogues of discovery. Dialogic Pedagogy, 3, 43-64. https://doi.org/10.5195/dpj.2015.101
International students and direct entrants—those entering a higher year of a degree—often come from socio-economic or cultural backgrounds different from traditional students,...
The impact of National Qualifications Frameworks: by which yardstick do we measure dreams?
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Pilcher, N., Fernie, S., & Smith, K. (2017)
The impact of National Qualifications Frameworks: by which yardstick do we measure dreams?. Journal of Education and Work, 30(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2015.1122178
National Qualifications Frameworks (NQFs) are a global phenomenon. This is evidenced by their scale, coverage and intrinsic link with education policy across Europe and beyond...
How bioscientists engage with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
Journal Article
Tierney, A. (2015)
How bioscientists engage with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Bioscience Education, 19(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.11120/beej.2012.19000012