“This wall does more for mental health than the uni does”: Theorising Toilet Graffiti as a Safe House for Students
Journal Article
Victoria, M. (in press)
“This wall does more for mental health than the uni does”: Theorising Toilet Graffiti as a Safe House for Students. Innovative Higher Education, 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...
Career transitions to paid employment: At what point does training placement provision move between up-skilling to exploitation?
Presentation / Conference
O'Neil, J., & Ivancheva, M. (2024, April)
Career transitions to paid employment: At what point does training placement provision move between up-skilling to exploitation?. Paper presented at 42nd International Labour Process Conference 2024 (ILPC 2024), Göttingen
Precarious work that becomes a ‘stepping stone’ to decent work (McGuiness and Wooden 2009, Nunley et al 2017; Munoz-Comet and Steinmetz 2020) is the bargain struck for many le...
Investing in degree apprenticeships: Analysing experiences through Conservation of Resources Theory
Conference Proceeding
Taylor-Smith, E., Smith, S., & Bratton, A. (2023)
Investing in degree apprenticeships: Analysing experiences through Conservation of Resources Theory.
Degree apprentices have reported finding work-life-study balance challenging. This study uses the Theory of Conservation of Resources (COR) to investigate the resources invest...
Co-creating The Learning and Teaching Journey with Postgraduate Research Students Who Teach
Journal Article
Dencer-Brown, A., Carlson-Webster, T., Piccio, B., Anderson, C., Adewale, O., & Taylor, S. (2023)
Co-creating The Learning and Teaching Journey with Postgraduate Research Students Who Teach. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 11(3), 97-110. https://doi.org/10.56433/jpaap.v11i3.588
Post-graduate research students (PGRs) often have teaching roles during their studies with little formal training or support (Lueddeke, 1997). Previous support at Edinburgh Na...
“I was worried if something bad happened”: How language graduates made decisions around migration in the anxious times of the Covid pandemic.
Presentation / Conference
Ratz, S. (2023, December)
“I was worried if something bad happened”: How language graduates made decisions around migration in the anxious times of the Covid pandemic. Paper presented at International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) 2023, Nicosia, Cyprus
Building Communities and Enhancing Belonging: A Route Map for Assessment Design
Other
Haddow, C., & Brodie, J. (2023)
Building Communities and Enhancing Belonging: A Route Map for Assessment Design. [Assessment guide]
A sense of belonging to a community in HE has been linked to positive outcomes for students such as increased engagement, identity development and retention (Masika & Jones, 2...
Methodological Issues and Challenges in Researching Transculturally
Book
Victoria, M. (Ed.)
(2022). Methodological Issues and Challenges in Researching Transculturally. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
This book sheds light on the ‘unseen’ challenges encountered by qualitative researchers before, during and long after conducting their study. These issues, often shrouded in m...
Making our way through multilingualism – reflexivity and decision-making of language students
Thesis
Ratz, S. (2022)
Making our way through multilingualism – reflexivity and decision-making of language students. (Thesis). London Metropolitan University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2928619
This thesis investigates reflexivity and decision-making of language students by examining the interplay between what students care about (their multilingual ‘concerns’), and ...
Picturing a Programme: The Business School Graduate Apprenticeship Journey
Presentation / Conference
Yorkstone, S., Fonseca, D. A. P., & Harte, P. (2022, June)
Picturing a Programme: The Business School Graduate Apprenticeship Journey. Poster presented at DLTE, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh
Can we explain our Business School’s Graduate Apprenticeship Programme visually? This poster shows our work to that end. Ana Paula Fonseca (Programme Leader), Patrick Harte (S...
What's in a Cake: Diversity, Inclusivity and Interculturality
Presentation / Conference
Victoria, M., & Smith, D. (2022, June)
What's in a Cake: Diversity, Inclusivity and Interculturality. Paper presented at Future Visualities: Visual Methods & Ethnography in Interdisciplinary Research, Edinburgh Napier University
Food, death and taxes have been claimed by anthropologists as some of the factors that are common to all human beings. Food is considered an important marker of identity and c...