All Outputs (5)

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.

Towards transformatory critique: reframing curriculum for student focus (2025)
Journal Article
Graham, C. (online). Towards transformatory critique: reframing curriculum for student focus. Teaching in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2025.2488497

In this conceptual paper I present an argument from a critical theoretical perspective that it is the role of all universities to enable students’ criticality development. Considering criticality development as ‘critical being’, I argue that higher e... Read More about Towards transformatory critique: reframing curriculum for student focus.

Tempered radicalism: A model for navigating academic practice and identity in the twenty-first-century neoliberal university? (2023)
Journal Article
Vaul-Grimwood, M. L., Naik, V., Graham, C., Moir, Z., & Smart, F. (2023). Tempered radicalism: A model for navigating academic practice and identity in the twenty-first-century neoliberal university?. Learning and Teaching, 16(2), 32-54. https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2023.160203

This article explores Meyerson and Scully's concept of ‘tempered radicalism’ (1995) in the context of contemporary academic practice and identity. We report on a collaborative autoethnographic study which addressed the question: ‘What does the concep... Read More about Tempered radicalism: A model for navigating academic practice and identity in the twenty-first-century neoliberal university?.

From belonging to being: Engaging with ‘contexts of difference’ (2022)
Journal Article
Graham, C. (2022). From belonging to being: Engaging with ‘contexts of difference’. Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 19(4),

This paper seeks to unveil the situated struggle that students experience in comprehending the often tacit rules that govern academic practices in order to engage fully with their academic studies and develop a sense of belonging. I present a critiqu... Read More about From belonging to being: Engaging with ‘contexts of difference’.

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.