Dr Cameron Graham's Outputs (7)

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.

Using storyboards to explore the impact of staff development on student retention in higher education (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Illingworth, S., Cowan, J., Graham, C., Shan, S., & Swanton, K. (2024, December). Using storyboards to explore the impact of staff development on student retention in higher education. Presented at 2024 SRHE International Research Conference, Online

This paper explores how staff engagement and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) can influence student retention outcomes in higher education. Drawing on a detailed research project at Edinburgh Napier University, it highlights the role of acad... Read More about Using storyboards to explore the impact of staff development on student retention in higher education.

'ChatGPT & Me' Student Padlet Data With Reactions (2023)
Data
Drumm, L., Illingworth, S., Graham, C., Calabrese, P., Taylor, S., Dencer-Brown, I., & van Knippenberg, I. (2023). 'ChatGPT & Me' Student Padlet Data With Reactions. [Data]. https://doi.org/10.17869/enu.2023.3200728

These data are from a project which aimed to collect and analyse student attitudes to artificial intelligence (AI) and their own learning and assessment while they are studying with Edinburgh Napier University. AI tools such as ChatGPT make it easier... Read More about 'ChatGPT & Me' Student Padlet Data With Reactions.

ChatGPT and Me: The Student Voice on Future Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Drumm, L., Graham, C., Taylor, S., van Knippenberg, I., Illingworth, S., Calabrase, P., & Opaleye, O. (2023, June). ChatGPT and Me: The Student Voice on Future Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Presented at EDEN Dublin Annual Conference 2023, Dublin, Ireland

The pandemic accelerated the use of digital tools for teaching, learning and assessing in universities, but the future of digital education is being challenged by user-friendly large language models and generative artificial intelligence (AI) platfor... Read More about ChatGPT and Me: The Student Voice on Future Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

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.