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Evidence that digital game players neglect age classification systems when deciding which games to play (2022)
Journal Article
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.

Radically reconfigured or just broken? How emergency online teaching has altered staff conceptions of learning and teaching (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Drumm, L., & Zike, J. (2021, December). Radically reconfigured or just broken? How emergency online teaching has altered staff conceptions of learning and teaching. Paper presented at Society for Research in Higher Education’s Annual Conference, Online

The pace of this so-called 'pivot' meant that careful online curriculum design and evidence-based approaches were often lost in the urgency to replicate face-to-face teaching. What are the longer term implications of so much of education operating wi... Read More about Radically reconfigured or just broken? How emergency online teaching has altered staff conceptions of learning and teaching.

Digital Pedagogy & Learning Design (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Drumm, L. (2021, November). Digital Pedagogy & Learning Design. Paper presented at The EdTech & Digital Learning Conference, Online

Editorial: Geoscience communication – planning to make it publishable (2021)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
Cathcart, A., Dransfield, M., Floyd, S., Campbell, L.-A., 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)
Journal Article
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.

A Celestial Crown of Sonnets (2021)
Book
Illingworth, S., & Wren, S. P. (2021). A Celestial Crown of Sonnets. Penteract Press

A Celestial Crown of Sonnets aims to tell the story of astronomy via an heroic crown of sonnets (also known as a sonnet redoublé), with each sonnet focusing on a different historically significant astronomer. The formal structure involves fourteen so... Read More about A Celestial Crown of Sonnets.

Teaching Across Time and Space: How University Educators Relate With, and Through, Technology (2020)
Book Chapter
Drumm, L. (2020). Teaching Across Time and Space: How University Educators Relate With, and Through, Technology. In F. Soares, A. P. Lopes, K. Brown, & A. Uukkivi (Eds.), Developing Technology Mediation in Learning Environments (23-42). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1591-4.ch002

Technology can be used to bring people closer together yet can also come between them and push them apart. In an age where discourse around our relationship with technology is becoming more widely discussed as problematic, what are the experiences of... Read More about Teaching Across Time and Space: How University Educators Relate With, and Through, Technology.

Beyond the metrics: the importance of intangible assets in the HE context (2020)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
Ho, J. S. Y., Angel, M., Ma, Y., Sloan, E., Wang, G., Martinez-Romero, C., Alenquer, M., Roudko, V., Chung, L., Zheng, S., Chang, M., Fstkchyan, Y., Clohisey, S., Dinan, A. M., Gibbs, J., Gifford, R., Shen, R., Gu, Q., Irigoyen, N., Campisi, L., …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.

Effective Science Communication: A practical guide to surviving as a scientist (Second Edition) (2020)
Book
Illingworth, S., & Allen, G. (2020). Effective Science Communication: A practical guide to surviving as a scientist (Second Edition). IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/978-0-7503-2520-2

Being a scientist in the 21st century can be extremely demanding. In addition to conducting exceptional research we are expected to communicate it effectively to a variety of audiences, from scientists and students to policymakers and press officers.... Read More about Effective Science Communication: A practical guide to surviving as a scientist (Second Edition).

Does technology flatten authenticity? Exploring the use of digital storytelling as a learning tool in mental health nurse education (2020)
Journal Article
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.