All Outputs (3)

Illustrating improvement: storyboards as tools for exploring staff CPD and its benefits to students in a Scottish university (2025)
Journal Article
Illingworth, S., Cowan, J., Graham, C., Sofia Shan, S., & Swanton, K. (online). Illustrating improvement: storyboards as tools for exploring staff CPD and its benefits to students in a Scottish university. Teaching in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2025.2507857

This article explores how academic staff perceive the relationship between their engagement in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and student outcomes. Drawing on a qualitative study conducted at a Scottish university, we used storyboarding to... Read More about Illustrating improvement: storyboards as tools for exploring staff CPD and its benefits to students in a Scottish university.

Using storyboards to explore the impact of staff development on student retention in higher education (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Illingworth, S., Cowan, J., Graham, C., Shan, S., & Swanton, K. (2024, December). Using storyboards to explore the impact of staff development on student retention in higher education. Presented at 2024 SRHE International Research Conference, Online

This paper explores how staff engagement and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) can influence student retention outcomes in higher education. Drawing on a detailed research project at Edinburgh Napier University, it highlights the role of acad... Read More about Using storyboards to explore the impact of staff development on student retention in higher education.

Promoting exemplary inquiry: searching for an effective pedagogical approach (2019)
Journal Article
Cowan, J. (2020). Promoting exemplary inquiry: searching for an effective pedagogical approach. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 44(5), 628-639. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877x.2019.1571175

This article traces and critically analyses a personal journey in search of effective ways to promote exemplary questioning on the part of students. The article is in many ways a polemic rather than a scientific study, which emerges as much from the... Read More about Promoting exemplary inquiry: searching for an effective pedagogical approach.