Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (7)

Professional Learning for Self-Management Support: the Problem of Generic Skills Development (2019)
Journal Article
Doyle, S. (2019). Professional Learning for Self-Management Support: the Problem of Generic Skills Development. Health Education in Practice: Journal of Research for Professional Learning, 2(2), 6-26. https://doi.org/10.33966/hepj.2.2.13349

Supporting people to self-manage long-term conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease, is a concern for health-care providers globally. Despite continued attention being paid to the production of educational resources for workforce development na... Read More about Professional Learning for Self-Management Support: the Problem of Generic Skills Development.

Intricacies of Professional Learning in Health Care: The Case of Supporting Self-management in Paediatric Diabetes (2018)
Book Chapter
Doyle, S. (2018). Intricacies of Professional Learning in Health Care: The Case of Supporting Self-management in Paediatric Diabetes. In D. Kember, & M. Corbett (Eds.), Structuring the Thesis (339-347). Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0511-5_34

What is an appropriate structure for reporting a sociomaterial study of healthcare professional learning, when drawing from Karen Barad’s agential realist framework?

Learning analytics: challenges and limitations (2017)
Journal Article
Wilson, A., Watson, C., Thompson, T. L., Drew, V., & Doyle, S. (2017). Learning analytics: challenges and limitations. Teaching in Higher Education, 22(8), 991-1007. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2017.1332026

Learning analytic implementations are increasingly being included in learning management systems in higher education. We lay out some concerns with the way learning analytics – both data and algorithms – are often presented within an unproblematized... Read More about Learning analytics: challenges and limitations.

Big data and learning analytics: Singular or plural? (2017)
Journal Article
Wilson, A., Lynn Thompson, T., Watson, C., Drew, V., & Doyle, S. (2017). Big data and learning analytics: Singular or plural?. First Monday, 22(4), https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v22i4.6872

Recent critiques of both the uses of and discourse surrounding big data have raised important questions as to the extent to which big data and big data techniques should be embraced. However, while the context dependence of data has been recognized,... Read More about Big data and learning analytics: Singular or plural?.

Matters of learning and education sociomaterial approaches in ethnographic research. (2015)
Book Chapter
Fenwick, T., Doyle, S., Michael, M., & Scoles, J. (2015). Matters of learning and education sociomaterial approaches in ethnographic research. In S. Bollig, M. Honig, S. Neumann, & C. Seele (Eds.), MultiPluriTrans in Educational Ethnography (141-162). New York: Transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839427729-007

In this chapter we outline a 'sociomaterial' configuration that has been circulating in the broader social sciences with useful potential for understanding dynamics of learning, pedagogy, curriculum, policy and so forth. This approach seeks to examin... Read More about Matters of learning and education sociomaterial approaches in ethnographic research..

'No barriers to medication at school' - the administration of medicines and health care procedures in schools: the views of parents and carers. (2013)
Report
Stone, K., & Doyle, S. (2013). 'No barriers to medication at school' - the administration of medicines and health care procedures in schools: the views of parents and carers. WithScotland

The key aim of this study was to find out the views of parents and carers of children and young people who need medication at school. It looks in particular on the impact current practice has on school and family life.

Reflexivity and the capacity to think. (2012)
Journal Article
Doyle, S. (2013). Reflexivity and the capacity to think. Qualitative Health Research, 23(2), 248-255. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732312467854

Reflexivity is fundamental to qualitative health research, yet notoriously difficult to unpack. Drawing on Wilfred Bion’s work on the development of the capacity to think and to learn, I show how the capacity to think is an impermanent and fallible c... Read More about Reflexivity and the capacity to think..