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From science to stanzas – The role of poetry in research communication (2022)
Digital Artefact
Illingworth, S. (2022). From science to stanzas – The role of poetry in research communication. [Blog]

Poetry can be perceived as the antithesis of science, indicative of a non-rational mode of thought, and famously banished from Plato’s ideal republic. However, as a form of communication poetry presents a unique way of engaging audiences and empoweri... Read More about From science to stanzas – The role of poetry in research communication.

Science Communication Through Poetry (2022)
Digital Artefact
Illingworth, S. (2022). Science Communication Through Poetry. [Blog]

Science and poetry are both used to understand human nature and our world. Why not combine their strengths?

How poetry can help communicate science to a more diverse audience (2022)
Newspaper / Magazine
Illingworth, S. (2022). How poetry can help communicate science to a more diverse audience. [Blog]

Science Communication Through Poetry (2022)
Book
Illingworth, S. (2022). Science Communication Through Poetry. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96829-8

Science Communication Through Poetry aims to explore how we might communicate science effectively both to and with non-scientific audiences across the spectrum of science communication, from dissemination to dialogue, via the medium of poetry. It has... Read More about Science Communication Through Poetry.

Tertiary Education in a Warming World (2022)
Report
Kelly, O., Illingworth, S., Butera, F., Steinberger, J., Blaise, M., Dawson, V., …Cowman, S. (2022). Tertiary Education in a Warming World. Worldwide Universities Network

Higher education institutes have a critical role to play in driving the scientific, political, technological, and cultural change needed to avoid the worst-case climate change scenarios, and in advancing the societal adaptive capacities needed to mee... Read More about Tertiary Education in a Warming World.

Curation and collaboration as activism: emerging critical practices of #FemEdTech (2022)
Journal Article
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)
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.0

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.

Science and Society: Science Communication Practice, Research, and Reflection II eLightning (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Illingworth, S., Timm, K., Roop, H., & Taylor, S. (2021, December). Science and Society: Science Communication Practice, Research, and Reflection II eLightning. Presented at AGU Fall Meeting 2021, New Orleans, LA

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/

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/10.1080/1360

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.

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., 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 J

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.

Ten simple rules for designing analogue science games (2021)
Journal Article
Illingworth, S., & Wake, P. (2021). Ten simple rules for designing analogue science games. PLoS Computational Biology, 17(6), Article e1009009. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009009

Abstract not available.

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 Met

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. Padstow: 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). Hershey, PA: IGI G

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.