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Belonging to the university or being in the world: From belonging to relational being (2022)
Journal Article
Graham, C., & Moir, Z. (2022). Belonging to the university or being in the world: From belonging to relational being. Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 19(4),

In a world characterised by supercomplexity, in which higher education (HE) is in the grip of neoliberal market forces (Barnett, 2000), it is incumbent upon participants in this sector to ask; what does it mean to belong, and to what? ‘Belonging’ has... Read More about Belonging to the university or being in the world: From belonging to relational being.

GC Insights: Geoscience students' experience of writing academic poetry as an aid to their science education (2022)
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Wardle, A., & Illingworth, S. (2022). GC Insights: Geoscience students' experience of writing academic poetry as an aid to their science education. Geoscience Communication, 5(3), 221-225. https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-5-221-2022

A survey was completed by 11 geoscience students in order to explore their experience of writing poetry as an aid to their science education. A thematic analysis found that themes could be categorised as being related to either the “Task Process” (“I... Read More about GC Insights: Geoscience students' experience of writing academic poetry as an aid to their science education.

Education in a warming world: Trends, opportunities and pitfalls for institutes of higher education (2022)
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Kelly, O., Illingworth, S., Butera, F., Dawson, V., White, P., Blaise, M., Martens, P., Schuitema, G., Huynen, M., Bailey, S., & Cowman, S. (2022). Education in a warming world: Trends, opportunities and pitfalls for institutes of higher education. Frontiers in Sustainability, 3, Article 920375. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsus.2022.920375

Higher education institutes (HEI) face considerable challenges in navigating how to respond to the escalating and intertwined socio-ecological sustainability crises. Many dedicated individuals working in the sector are already driving meaningful acti... Read More about Education in a warming world: Trends, opportunities and pitfalls for institutes of higher education.

‘Mirror, mirror on the wall’: reflecting on, and refracting through, academic development in a pandemic year (2022)
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Cunningham, C., & Cunningham, T. (2022). ‘Mirror, mirror on the wall’: reflecting on, and refracting through, academic development in a pandemic year. International Journal for Academic Development, 27(2), 191-202. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144x.2022.2082439

Using a creative and playful fairy-tale storyboard approach this paper explores the impact of the pandemic, the move to online and blended learning, and the role academic development can have in the future of learning and teaching. We refract academi... Read More about ‘Mirror, mirror on the wall’: reflecting on, and refracting through, academic development in a pandemic year.

Curation and collaboration as activism: emerging critical practices of #FemEdTech (2022)
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Beetham, H., Drumm, L., Bell, F., Mycroft, L., & Forsythe, G. (2022). Curation and collaboration as activism: emerging critical practices of #FemEdTech. Learning, Media and Technology, 47(1), 143-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2021.2018607

The inequities rooted in our education systems and wider societies have been thrown into relief by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper presents four situational studies of the FemEdTech network, asking how we characterise activities of the... Read More about Curation and collaboration as activism: emerging critical practices of #FemEdTech.

Evidence that digital game players neglect age classification systems when deciding which games to play (2022)
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Hollett, R., Tomkinson, S., Illingworth, S., Power, B., & Harper, T. (2022). Evidence that digital game players neglect age classification systems when deciding which games to play. PLOS ONE, 17(2), Article e0263560. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263560

This article considers players’ experiences seeking out new games to play, and their use of the Australian National Classification Scheme in doing so. The global video game industry is booming, with hundreds of games being released each month across... Read More about Evidence that digital game players neglect age classification systems when deciding which games to play.

Editorial: Geoscience communication – planning to make it publishable (2021)
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Hillier, J. K., Welsh, K. E., Stiller-Reeve, M., Priestley, R. K., Roop, H. A., Lanza, T., & Illingworth, S. (2021). Editorial: Geoscience communication – planning to make it publishable. Geoscience Communication, 4(4), 493-506. https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-4-493-2021

If you are a geoscientist doing work to achieve impact outside academia or engaging different audiences with the geosciences, are you planning to make this publishable? If so, then plan. Such investigations into how people (academics, practitioners,... Read More about Editorial: Geoscience communication – planning to make it publishable.

The future of conferences: lessons from Europe's largest online geoscience conference (2021)
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Gibson, H., Illingworth, S., & Buiter, S. (2021). The future of conferences: lessons from Europe's largest online geoscience conference. Geoscience Communication, 4(3), 437-451. https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-4-437-2021

In the early months of 2020, as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) swept across the globe, millions of people were required to make drastic changes to their lives to help contain the impact of the virus. Among those changes, scientific conferences of e... Read More about The future of conferences: lessons from Europe's largest online geoscience conference.

A Neglected Area: Development Opportunities for Doctoral Researchers Involved in Project Mentoring and Supervision (2021)
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Le Vaul-Grimwood, M., & Hetherington, R. (2023). A Neglected Area: Development Opportunities for Doctoral Researchers Involved in Project Mentoring and Supervision. International Journal for Academic Development, 28(1), 74-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2021.1959336

This paper calls for consideration of appropriate support and development for doctoral research students involved in supervision of undergraduate and Master’s degree projects. This subgroup’s professional development tends to be neglected in academic... Read More about A Neglected Area: Development Opportunities for Doctoral Researchers Involved in Project Mentoring and Supervision.

Dialogic assessment in the context of professional recognition: perspectives from the canoe (2021)
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Smart, F., Floyd, S., Davies, V., & Dransfield, M. (2021). Dialogic assessment in the context of professional recognition: perspectives from the canoe. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 9(1), 36-43. https://doi.org/10.14297/jpaap.v9i1.463

This paper draws on the reflective evaluations of four experienced academic practitioners who each have roles in leading or contributing to Fellowship Schemes in a UK context (United Kingdom Professional Standards Framework, 2011) and are all Advance... Read More about Dialogic assessment in the context of professional recognition: perspectives from the canoe.

Tick-box, weasel words, or a transformative experience? Insights into what educators consider the real impact of HEA Fellowships (2021)
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Cathcart, A., Dransfield, M., Floyd, S., Campbell, L., Carkett, R., Davies, V., Duhs, R., & Smart, F. (2023). Tick-box, weasel words, or a transformative experience? Insights into what educators consider the real impact of HEA Fellowships. International Journal for Academic Development, 28(3), 319-333. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2021.1938075

Global membership of the HEA fellowship scheme is increasing. There is limited research examining whether fellowship delivers on its promise to improve teaching quality and the learning experience. In this comprehensive survey of educators’ percepti... Read More about Tick-box, weasel words, or a transformative experience? Insights into what educators consider the real impact of HEA Fellowships.

The Mixed Methods Practical Sustainability Research Framework: An Illustration From Research on the Creeping Problem of Coastal Complexity and Mangrove Management (2021)
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Dencer-Brown, A. M., Jarvis, R. M., Alfaro, A. C., & Milne, S. (2022). The Mixed Methods Practical Sustainability Research Framework: An Illustration From Research on the Creeping Problem of Coastal Complexity and Mangrove Management. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 16(2), 242-259. https://doi.org/10.1177/15586898211014422

With a rising world population and pressure on ecosystems due to development, researchers need sophisticated and integrated approaches for conducting sustainability research. We outline a mixed methods practical sustainability research framework, def... Read More about The Mixed Methods Practical Sustainability Research Framework: An Illustration From Research on the Creeping Problem of Coastal Complexity and Mangrove Management.

Beyond the metrics: the importance of intangible assets in the HE context (2020)
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Smart, F., Cleaver, E., & Robertson, A. (2020). Beyond the metrics: the importance of intangible assets in the HE context. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 8(2), https://doi.org/10.14297/jpaap.v8i2.432

As a statement of fact, the Higher Education (HE) sector gathers data. Commonly these data are metrical in format, used in some way to report on some aspect of performativity, whether within the institution or beyond its bounds. This paper does not s... Read More about Beyond the metrics: the importance of intangible assets in the HE context.

Innovative Roles in Leading Community Engagement and Cooperation with employers: Case Study from a Bahraini University (2020)
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Darwish, S., & Smart, F. (2020). Innovative Roles in Leading Community Engagement and Cooperation with employers: Case Study from a Bahraini University. Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research, 21(4),

This paper adds to academic practice in a specific context – the Kingdom of Bahrain. Researchers give specific attention to the two case studies prepared, the first focusing on “Community Engagement Leadership” and the second on “Promoting Cooperativ... Read More about Innovative Roles in Leading Community Engagement and Cooperation with employers: Case Study from a Bahraini University.

Creative communication – using poetry and games to generate dialogue between scientists and nonscientists (2020)
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Illingworth, S. (2020). Creative communication – using poetry and games to generate dialogue between scientists and nonscientists. FEBS Letters, 594(15), 2333-2338. https://doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.13891

Science communication is often perceived as an opportunity for scientists to broadcast their expertise and knowledge to a general public, so that this lay audience might better understand a specific field of study. However, in order for science to be... Read More about Creative communication – using poetry and games to generate dialogue between scientists and nonscientists.

Hybrid Gene Origination Creates Human-Virus Chimeric Proteins during Infection (2020)
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Ho, J. S. Y., Angel, M., Ma, Y., Sloan, E., Wang, G., Martinez-Romero, C., …Marazzi, I. (2020). Hybrid Gene Origination Creates Human-Virus Chimeric Proteins during Infection. Cell, 181(7), 1502-1517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.05.035

RNA viruses are a major human health threat. The life cycles of many highly pathogenic RNA viruses like influ-enza A virus (IAV) and Lassa virus depends on host mRNA, because viral polymerases cleave 50-m7G-cappedhost transcripts to prime viral mRNA... Read More about Hybrid Gene Origination Creates Human-Virus Chimeric Proteins during Infection.

Does technology flatten authenticity? Exploring the use of digital storytelling as a learning tool in mental health nurse education (2020)
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Smart, F., Conlon, M., & Mcintosh, G. (2020). Does technology flatten authenticity? Exploring the use of digital storytelling as a learning tool in mental health nurse education. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 29(3), 269-278. https://doi.org/10.1080/1475939X.2020.1760127

The paper reflects on digital story-telling as an approach designed to apply the theory of authentic learning in a co-productive context. It seeks to examine the theory of authenticity through the lens of digital stories. Design: A participant group... Read More about Does technology flatten authenticity? Exploring the use of digital storytelling as a learning tool in mental health nurse education.

In my remembered country: what poetry tells us about the changing perceptions of volcanoes between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries (2020)
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Soldati, A., & Illingworth, S. (2020). In my remembered country: what poetry tells us about the changing perceptions of volcanoes between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. Geoscience Communication, 3(1), 73-87. https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-3-73-2020

In this study we investigate what poetry written about volcanoes from the 1800s to the present day reveals about the relationship between volcanoes and the societies and times represented by poets who wrote about them, including how it evolved over t... Read More about In my remembered country: what poetry tells us about the changing perceptions of volcanoes between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries.