Outputs (66)

Evaluating ‘Study Skills’: What’s the context? (2025)
Journal Article
Pilcher, N., & Richards, K. (in press). Evaluating ‘Study Skills’: What’s the context?. Research in Post-Compulsory Education,

‘Study Skills’ in any guise are integral to Higher Education worldwide, existing to help student ‘success’. Some argue ‘generic’ or ‘bolt-on’ ‘Study Skills’ do not help with ‘success’, others that ‘embedded’ ‘Study Skills’ do, but no-one advocates ac... Read More about Evaluating ‘Study Skills’: What’s the context?.

International Academic Staff: The Roles of Languages, Cultures, and Personalities (2024)
Book
Richards, K., Pilcher, N., & Lee, G. S. J. (2024). International Academic Staff: The Roles of Languages, Cultures, and Personalities. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58760-3

This book ​focuses on the experiences of international academic staff in higher education, particularly examining the influences of issues such as languages, cultures, and personalities. The qualitative approach taken by the authors provides vignette... Read More about International Academic Staff: The Roles of Languages, Cultures, and Personalities.

Women seafarers in Taiwan: policies, benefits, challenges, and bias in the data (2024)
Journal Article
Tseng, P.-H., & Pilcher, N. (online). Women seafarers in Taiwan: policies, benefits, challenges, and bias in the data. Maritime Policy and Management, https://doi.org/10.1080/03088839.2024.2437535

Gender imbalance and equality have been highlighted in the global seafarer market. Taiwan relies heavily on shipping development and three container shipping companies (Evergreen, Yang Ming, Wai Hai Line) in Taiwan are ranked as top 11 in the world.... Read More about Women seafarers in Taiwan: policies, benefits, challenges, and bias in the data.

The ‘Skills Gap’ in the Animation/VFX industry in Scotland (2024)
Journal Article
Mortimer, J., Richards, K., & Pilcher, N. (2024). The ‘Skills Gap’ in the Animation/VFX industry in Scotland. Animation, 19(2-3), 161-176. https://doi.org/10.1177/17468477241281629

Integral to the animation and visual effects (VFX) industry are graduates with industry focused skills. Yet, the industry is rapid and ever changing, almost defying attempts to define it. How then should animation/VFX, and indeed any subject of a sim... Read More about The ‘Skills Gap’ in the Animation/VFX industry in Scotland.

Thailand’s Kra Canal: economic feasibility and expert perspectives on its complexity (2024)
Journal Article
Tseng, P.-H., & Pilcher, N. (2024). Thailand’s Kra Canal: economic feasibility and expert perspectives on its complexity. Maritime Business Review, 9(4), https://doi.org/10.1108/mabr-05-2024-0042

Purpose
Asia is one of the most important economic regions of the world. The Kra Canal is considered as a potential maritime transportation node in global trade. Indeed, for centuries, a canal across the Kra isthmus in Thailand has been proposed as... Read More about Thailand’s Kra Canal: economic feasibility and expert perspectives on its complexity.

English as a Lingua Franca: Intercultural Interaction in an Asian 'Third Space' Context (2024)
Journal Article
Victoria, M., Xu, F. H., & Pilcher, N. (online). English as a Lingua Franca: Intercultural Interaction in an Asian 'Third Space' Context. Asian Englishes, https://doi.org/10.1080/13488678.2024.2405278

In many studies on English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), the prevailing perspective has primarily focused on ELF as the use of English for communication among speakers who do not share English as their first language. However, recent scholarship has emph... Read More about English as a Lingua Franca: Intercultural Interaction in an Asian 'Third Space' Context.

Diversity and inclusion in UK Higher Education: staff perspectives on institutional representations and their reality (2023)
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 Higher Education (HE). The paper focuses on comparing representational statem... Read More about Diversity and inclusion in UK Higher Education: staff perspectives on institutional representations and their reality.

'Qualitative' and 'quantitative' methods and approaches across subject fields: implications for research values, assumptions, and practices (2023)
Journal Article
Pilcher, N., & Cortazzi, M. (2024). 'Qualitative' and 'quantitative' methods and approaches across subject fields: implications for research values, assumptions, and practices. Quality and Quantity, 58, 2357-2387. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-023-01734-4

There is considerable literature showing the complexity, connectivity and blurring of 'qualitative' and 'quantitative' methods in research. Yet these concepts are often represented in a binary way as independent dichotomous categories. This is eviden... Read More about 'Qualitative' and 'quantitative' methods and approaches across subject fields: implications for research values, assumptions, and practices.

A Safety Assessment Model for Handling Dangerous Goods in Port Operations: The Key Role of Detection Capability (2023)
Journal Article
Tseng, P.-H., & Pilcher, N. (2023). A Safety Assessment Model for Handling Dangerous Goods in Port Operations: The Key Role of Detection Capability. Journal of marine science and engineering, 11(9), Article 1704. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11091704

Recently, resilience studies have been emphasized in the port field, recognizing that many high-risk and unsafe factors in ports might bring serious disasters and economic losses. One major cause of significant losses is accidents from fires, explosi... Read More about A Safety Assessment Model for Handling Dangerous Goods in Port Operations: The Key Role of Detection Capability.

Construction and Engineering Higher Education: The Role of Pracademics in Recoupling Classical Experiential Educational Norms (2023)
Book Chapter
Forster, A. M., Pilcher, N., Murray, M., Tennant, S., Craig, N., & Galbrun, L. (2023). Construction and Engineering Higher Education: The Role of Pracademics in Recoupling Classical Experiential Educational Norms. In J. Dickinson, & T.-L. Griffiths (Eds.), Professional Development for Practitioners in Academia: Pracademia (211-227). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33746-8_15

This chapter considers the development of construction and engineering education that historically chartered an increasingly decoupled trajectory from being practical in nature, to include progressively more theoretical instruction. Indeed, over the... Read More about Construction and Engineering Higher Education: The Role of Pracademics in Recoupling Classical Experiential Educational Norms.