Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Browse


Construction and Engineering Higher Education: The Role of Pracademics in Recoupling Classical Experiential Educational Norms (2023)
Book Chapter
Forster, A. M., Pilcher, N., Murray, M., Tennant, S., Craig, N., & Galbrun, L. (2023). Construction and Engineering Higher Education: The Role of Pracademics in Recoupling Classical Experiential Educational Norms. In J. Dickinson, & T. Griffiths (Eds.), Professional Development for Practitioners in Academia: Pracademia (211-227). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33746-8_15

This chapter considers the development of construction and engineering education that historically chartered an increasingly decoupled trajectory from being practical in nature, to include progressively more theoretical instruction. Indeed, over the... Read More about Construction and Engineering Higher Education: The Role of Pracademics in Recoupling Classical Experiential Educational Norms.

Understanding international students' experiences with assessments through rich pictures (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Victoria, M., & Ratz, S. (2023, June). Understanding international students' experiences with assessments through rich pictures. Paper presented at The Gathering 2023: Learning & Teaching conference, Edinburgh

Higher education institutions continue to see an increasing number of international students who bring with them diverse forms of assessment ‘literacies’ acquired from previous sociocultural and educational contexts. This presentation explores the ex... Read More about Understanding international students' experiences with assessments through rich pictures.

Ethical questions of longitudinal research with students: Using duoethnography to critically reflect on the interview process (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Ratz, S., & Janssen, L. (2023, June). Ethical questions of longitudinal research with students: Using duoethnography to critically reflect on the interview process. Paper presented at The Gathering, 2023: Learning & Teaching Conference, Edinburgh

From 2016-2020 Sibylle conducted a longitudinal study on the trajectory of undergraduate language students at ENU. In their current project, Sibylle and Lisa (a participant of the original study) revisited this research by reflecting on six interview... Read More about Ethical questions of longitudinal research with students: Using duoethnography to critically reflect on the interview process.

Searching for Meaning: Exploring Community and Belonging at University (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Haddow, C., & Brodie, J. (2022, June). Searching for Meaning: Exploring Community and Belonging at University. Presented at The Gathering 2022, Edinburgh

Enhancing belonging at university has emerged as an area of thematic priority at institutional level, in academic research and for quality enhancement organisations such as Advance HE and QAA Scotland (Campbell, 2019; O’Mahony et al., 2013; Robertson... Read More about Searching for Meaning: Exploring Community and Belonging at University.

Role requirements in Academic Recruitment for Construction & Engineering (2020)
Journal Article
Pilcher, N., Galbrun, L., Craig, N., Murray, M., Forster, A., & Tennant, S. (2021). Role requirements in Academic Recruitment for Construction & Engineering. European Journal of Engineering Education, 46(2), 247-265. https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2020.1725451

Two ongoing and recurrent debates in the employment of academic staff are (1) how much industry experience should faculty staff have? and (2) what priority is given to research, teaching or both? Such debates take place worldwide and are particularly... Read More about Role requirements in Academic Recruitment for Construction & Engineering.

An Implementation of the UTAUT Model for Understanding Students’ Perceptions of Learning Management Systems: A Study Within Tertiary Institutions in Saudi Arabia (2019)
Journal Article
Alshehri, A., Rutter, M. J., & Smith, S. (2019). An Implementation of the UTAUT Model for Understanding Students’ Perceptions of Learning Management Systems: A Study Within Tertiary Institutions in Saudi Arabia. International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 17(3), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJDET.2019070101

The rapid growth of e-learning around the globe is inspiring various academic institutions to adopt it. Uptake is motivated by convincing benefits such as flexibility, accessibility and the management of course delivery and educational materials. In... Read More about An Implementation of the UTAUT Model for Understanding Students’ Perceptions of Learning Management Systems: A Study Within Tertiary Institutions in Saudi Arabia.

Cracking the Enterprise Code: An educator's reflections for effective Teaching and Quality Learning (2019)
Journal Article
Omeihe, I., & Omeihe, K. O. (2019). Cracking the Enterprise Code: An educator's reflections for effective Teaching and Quality Learning. Journal of Higher Education Service Science and Management, 2(3), 1-12

There is a broad consensus that curriculum design principles and practices must be underpinned by effective institutional, national and international agendas. This argument is strengthened by the assertion that teaching and learning activities are de... Read More about Cracking the Enterprise Code: An educator's reflections for effective Teaching and Quality Learning.

An analysis of EHEA Business School: Approaches to the development, configuration and management of international academic alliances (2019)
Book
Harte, P. (2019). An analysis of EHEA Business School: Approaches to the development, configuration and management of international academic alliances. Mauritius: LAP Lambert Academic Press

The purpose of this study is to investigate the motivations for international academic alliance development, the configuration of alliance networks and their sustained management in Business Schools within the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). A... Read More about An analysis of EHEA Business School: Approaches to the development, configuration and management of international academic alliances.

Global Lean for Higher Education: A Themed Anthology of Case Studies, Approaches, and Tools (2019)
Book
Yorkstone, S. (2019). Global Lean for Higher Education: A Themed Anthology of Case Studies, Approaches, and Tools. (1). CRC Press (Taylor and Francis Group)

This book collects a series of investigations that reflect the state-of-the-art in the global practical application of Lean for Higher Education (HE). The contributions introduce and describe the practical application of Lean in HE so that other prac... Read More about Global Lean for Higher Education: A Themed Anthology of Case Studies, Approaches, and Tools.

Exploring Critical Conceptual Space in Hospitality Higher Education (2019)
Thesis
Zhang, K. Y. Exploring Critical Conceptual Space in Hospitality Higher Education. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2090725

This study employs criticality, an intellectual concept embedded in various educational values, to evaluate the degree of criticality currently manifested in hospitality and to engage with ‘disciplinary’ reflexivity to shed light on the developmental... Read More about Exploring Critical Conceptual Space in Hospitality Higher Education.

Bridging the Digital Skills Gap: Are computing degree apprenticeships the answer? (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Taylor-Smith, E., Smith, S., Fabian, K., Berg, T., Meharg, D., & Varey, A. (2019). Bridging the Digital Skills Gap: Are computing degree apprenticeships the answer?. In ITiCSE '19 Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (126-132). https://doi.org/10.1145/3304221.3319744

This paper describes a study investigating whether apprenticeship computing degrees in Scotland are attracting additional entrants who will become IT professionals and fill a skills need. Government policy reports, from around the world, set out plan... Read More about Bridging the Digital Skills Gap: Are computing degree apprenticeships the answer?.

Statistical Assessment of Peer Opinions in Higher Education Rankings: The Case of U.S. Engineering Graduate Programs (2019)
Journal Article
Ghaisi, A., Fountas, G., Anastasopoulos, P., & Mannering, F. (2019). Statistical Assessment of Peer Opinions in Higher Education Rankings: The Case of U.S. Engineering Graduate Programs. Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 11(3), 481-492. https://doi.org/10.1108/JARHE-09-2018-0196

Unlike many other quantitative characteristics used to determine higher education rankings, opinion-based peer assessment scores, and the factors that may influence them, are not well understood. Using peer scores of U.S. colleges of engineering as r... Read More about Statistical Assessment of Peer Opinions in Higher Education Rankings: The Case of U.S. Engineering Graduate Programs.

Assessment as a Mediating Artefact for Students in Transition from College to University (2019)
Journal Article
Fotheringham, J. (2019). Assessment as a Mediating Artefact for Students in Transition from College to University. All Ireland Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (AISHE-J), 11(2),

This paper presents research findings from a longitudinal study of students making the transition from colleges to a Scottish university. Data from interviews with staff and students suggest that although students are offered pre-entry transition sup... Read More about Assessment as a Mediating Artefact for Students in Transition from College to University.

Investigating support for scholarship of teaching and learning; we need SoTL educational leaders (2019)
Journal Article
Webb, A. S., & Tierney, A. M. (2020). Investigating support for scholarship of teaching and learning; we need SoTL educational leaders. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 57(5), 613-624. https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2019.1635905

In this paper, we focus on the experience of faculty learning to do the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Our two studies uncovered similar threshold concepts in SoTL in two contrasting contexts; one study done in the United Kingdom with t... Read More about Investigating support for scholarship of teaching and learning; we need SoTL educational leaders.

What’s in a word? Practices associated with ‘feedforward’ in higher education. (2019)
Journal Article
Reimann, N., Sadler, I., & Sambell, K. (2019). What’s in a word? Practices associated with ‘feedforward’ in higher education. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 44(8), 1279-1290. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2019.1600655

The term ‘feedforward’ is increasingly employed in higher education, and this paper focuses on the way in which it fits into contemporary debates about feedback and its impact on practitioners. Semi-structured interviews were used to investigate the... Read More about What’s in a word? Practices associated with ‘feedforward’ in higher education..

How do I get the grades creativity and conflicts of motivation risk and reward. (2019)
Book Chapter
Stefanie, R. (2019). How do I get the grades creativity and conflicts of motivation risk and reward. In Z. Moir, B. Powell, & G. D. Smith (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices (395-413). London: Bloomsbury Publishing

This chapter discusses the thought processes behind learning, teaching, and assessment (LTA) of creativity as a set of skills and processes. I utilize the work I have done in designing and delivering a module (course) that specifically tackles creati... Read More about How do I get the grades creativity and conflicts of motivation risk and reward..

Electing to Speak: Professional Dialogue in the Context of Professional Dialogue (2019)
Journal Article
Smart, F., Asghar, M., Campbell, L., & Huxham, M. (2019). Electing to Speak: Professional Dialogue in the Context of Professional Dialogue. International Journal for Academic Development, 24(3), 232-245. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2019.1585356

Written submissions are traditionally used in the assessment of applications for Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, with dialogue offering an alternative approach. Quite why individuals elect for dialogue has received little attention. Using... Read More about Electing to Speak: Professional Dialogue in the Context of Professional Dialogue.

Learning by design: 2018 OUP Bioscience Education Summit (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Tierney, A., & McQueen, H. (2019). Learning by design: 2018 OUP Bioscience Education Summit.

Learning by Design’ was the theme of the 2018 OUP Bioscience Education Summit. There were forty-eight delegates from 20 different UK HE institutes in attendance, representing a wide range of biology specialisms and roles. The meeting was held over... Read More about Learning by design: 2018 OUP Bioscience Education Summit.

Exploring women's motivations to study computer science (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Smith, S., Sobolewska, E., Bhardwaj, J., & Fabian, K. (2019). Exploring women's motivations to study computer science. In Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education 2018 Conference. https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2018.8658768

This paper presents a study exploring women's decisions, influencers and early experiences of computing to better understand how women's motivations and prior experience affect their decision to study computer science (CS). The emergence of a gender... Read More about Exploring women's motivations to study computer science.