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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.

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. (in press). Thailand’s Kra Canal: economic feasibility and expert perspectives on its complexity. Maritime Business Review, 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. 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.

Using Rubrics as Feedforward Tools for Subject Contextualized Dialogue (2023)
Book Chapter
Richards, K., & Pilcher, N. (2023). Using Rubrics as Feedforward Tools for Subject Contextualized Dialogue. In C. Gonsalves, & J. Pearson (Eds.), Improving Learning Through Assessment Rubrics: Student Awareness of What and How They Learn (229-247). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6086-3.ch013

This chapter outlines an approach to using rubrics in a feedforward process using dialogue between teachers and students that takes place before students hand in their assignments. As such, it aims to complement existing research demonstrating the va... Read More about Using Rubrics as Feedforward Tools for Subject Contextualized Dialogue.

EU Tourism and Student Identities in a pre-Brexit UK (2023)
Journal Article
Anastasiadou, C., Pilcher, N., Gutu, M., & Panyik, E. (2023). EU Tourism and Student Identities in a pre-Brexit UK. Annals of Tourism Research, 99, Article 103545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2023.103545

The EU has long advocated cultural tourism to construct a shared, supranational European identity. Drawing on data collected prior to the UK Brexit referendum, the paper compares EU discourse in selected tourism policy documents, and the travel exper... Read More about EU Tourism and Student Identities in a pre-Brexit UK.

Developing critical intercultural competence through understanding the location, product and processes of dialogue (2022)
Book Chapter
Pilcher, N., & Zhou, V. X. (2022). Developing critical intercultural competence through understanding the location, product and processes of dialogue. In M. Sommier, A. Roiha, & M. Lahti (Eds.), Interculturality in Higher Education: Putting Critical Approaches into Practice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003322702-3

The idea of ‘intercultural competence’ (ICC) has been beset by tension between training models presenting culture as understood through ‘nation’ based constructs, and counterarguments disparaging such models as reductive and othering, dividing nation... Read More about Developing critical intercultural competence through understanding the location, product and processes of dialogue.

Enhancing Student Support in Higher Education: A Subject-Focused Approach (2022)
Book
Pilcher, N., & Richards, K. (2022). Enhancing Student Support in Higher Education: A Subject-Focused Approach. 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 other non-text related languages. The authors call this a beyond-text subje... Read More about Enhancing Student Support in Higher Education: A Subject-Focused Approach.

Political and technical complexities of electronic toll collection: Lessons from Taiwan (2022)
Journal Article
Tseng, P.-H., & Pilcher, N. (2022). Political and technical complexities of electronic toll collection: Lessons from Taiwan. Case Studies on Transport Policy, 10(1), 444-453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cstp.2022.01.005

Traditional manual toll collection (MTC) imposes a significant queue length near toll plazas and results in road users delay (travel time loss), administration, fuel consumption, accidents, and other societal costs. Many countries (e.g. the U.S., Jap... Read More about Political and technical complexities of electronic toll collection: Lessons from Taiwan.

Estimating the emissions potential of marine transportation using the Kra Canal (2021)
Journal Article
Tseng, P.-H., & Pilcher, N. (2022). Estimating the emissions potential of marine transportation using the Kra Canal. Maritime Transport Research, 3, 100041. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.martra.2021.100041

The Panama and Suez canals greatly reduced pollutant emissions from shipping through much reduced sailing distances. Another possible future canal is across the Kra isthmus in Thailand, reducing sailing distances for ships travelling from East Asia t... Read More about Estimating the emissions potential of marine transportation using the Kra Canal.

Ethanol-driven building fungus colonisation: “Whisky Black” in urban built environments (2021)
Journal Article
Craig, N., Pilcher, N., Forster, A. M., & Kennedy, C. (2023). Ethanol-driven building fungus colonisation: “Whisky Black” in urban built environments. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 41(1), 238-257. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijbpa-05-2021-0079

Purpose
The spirits industry is a major economic contributor worldwide, often requiring years of maturation in barrels that is associated with significant release of ethanol into the surrounding environment. This provides carbon nutrition for coloni... Read More about Ethanol-driven building fungus colonisation: “Whisky Black” in urban built environments.

Scotland’s History of Animation: An Exploratory Account of the Key Figures and Influential Events (2021)
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 and abroad. Yet, to date, this history has not been meaningfully documented... Read More about Scotland’s History of Animation: An Exploratory Account of the Key Figures and Influential Events.

Examining the opportunities and challenges of the Kra Canal: a PESTELE/SWOT analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Tseng, P.-H., & Pilcher, N. (2022). Examining the opportunities and challenges of the Kra Canal: a PESTELE/SWOT analysis. Maritime Business Review, 7(2), 161-174. https://doi.org/10.1108/mabr-02-2021-0011

Purpose – Much literature considers future impacts of the Kra Canal on shipping times and on individual countries. In this paper, the authors consider the maritime business potential of the Kra Canal for companies, ports and countries.
Design/metho... Read More about Examining the opportunities and challenges of the Kra Canal: a PESTELE/SWOT analysis.

Piracy defense strategies for shipping companies and ships: A mixed empirical approach (2021)
Journal Article
Tseng, P.-H., Her, Z.-C., & Pilcher, N. (2021). Piracy defense strategies for shipping companies and ships: A mixed empirical approach. Maritime Transport Research, 2, Article 100020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.martra.2021.100020

Piracy attacks constitute a serious threat against which ships must be ready to defend themselves, particularly given the financial, political and logistical challenges involved in ensuring internationally coordinated protection. Yet, defense is high... Read More about Piracy defense strategies for shipping companies and ships: A mixed empirical approach.

Dealing with the Competition of English-language Export Editions: Voices from the Dutch Trade Book Market (2021)
Journal Article
Trentacosti, G., & Pilcher, N. (2021). Dealing with the Competition of English-language Export Editions: Voices from the Dutch Trade Book Market. Publishing Research Quarterly, 37, 278-292. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-021-09798-6

This project explores the responses of the Dutch trade book market to the ever-increasing influx of Anglophone publications. Based on in-depth interviews (n = 42) carried out between 2015 and 2017 with Dutch publishing professionals, this research id... Read More about Dealing with the Competition of English-language Export Editions: Voices from the Dutch Trade Book Market.