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Belonging to a learning community: staff perspectives. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ennis, L., Tierney, A., Lucas, L., Logan, P., & Wright, G. (2018, October). Belonging to a learning community: staff perspectives. Presented at Evidence for Enhancement: The Challenge of Community and Belonging, Edinburgh, Scotland

The Faculty Learning Community (FLC) at Edinburgh Napier University is based on the Miami model developed by Milton D. Cox and seeks to explore the ways in which staff support each other throughout the institution. This formal, time-bound and selecti... Read More about Belonging to a learning community: staff perspectives..

Game on! (2018)
Journal Article
Rivera, E. S. (2018). Game on!. Ology: Reviews in Applied Sciences, 1, 8-9. https://doi.org/10.14297/ras.v1i1.4

Diving into a diverse array of case studies in gamification and gameful design in higher education, Kevin Bell’s Game on! is a series of brief looks that feel in-depth.

Researching international students: methodological challenges of rebel data (2018)
Journal Article
Ecochard, S., & Fotheringham, J. (2018). Researching international students: methodological challenges of rebel data. International Student Experience Journal, 6(1), 1-7

This paper presents findings from a small scale study into the attitudes and preferences of international students for support provision at a Scottish Higher Education institution. The article outlines some of the challenges arising from analysing qu... Read More about Researching international students: methodological challenges of rebel data.

Enquiry into learning and teaching in the life sciences (2018)
Book Chapter
Scott, G., & Tierney, A. (2018). Enquiry into learning and teaching in the life sciences. In E. Cleaver, M. Lintern, & M. McLinden (Eds.), Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Disciplinary Approaches to Educational Enquiry. SAGE Publications

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The scholarship of teaching and learning is thriving. (2018)
Newspaper / Magazine
Tierney, A. (2018). The scholarship of teaching and learning is thriving

In response to Richard Arum’s charge that higher education research is failing to sufficiently investigate university teaching, Anne Tierney gives concrete examples of the contrary.

Improving student satisfaction at a Caribbean university using a customer focussed strategy (2018)
Thesis
Murray, J. A. Improving student satisfaction at a Caribbean university using a customer focussed strategy. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1253524

The study aimed to determine the drivers of student satisfaction with the services offered by a Caribbean university. The study, premised on the marketing concept of customer satisfaction, used the Expectation Disconfirmation Model, a widely used too... Read More about Improving student satisfaction at a Caribbean university using a customer focussed strategy.

An exploration of the dynamics of culture and personal acculturation in a culturally complex situation: Learning from university students' experiences of group work (2018)
Thesis
Xu, F. H. An exploration of the dynamics of culture and personal acculturation in a culturally complex situation: Learning from university students' experiences of group work. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1255585

In this thesis, I adopt the anti-essentialist cultural paradigm to explore the complexity within the processes of both cultural-making and personal acculturation that may occur in an interweaving way within a local cultural arena (Holliday, 2011; 20... Read More about An exploration of the dynamics of culture and personal acculturation in a culturally complex situation: Learning from university students' experiences of group work.

From work-integrated learning to learning-integrated work: motivations and apprehensions of Graduate Apprentices (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, S., Taylor-Smith, E., Smith, C., & Varey, A. (2018, June). From work-integrated learning to learning-integrated work: motivations and apprehensions of Graduate Apprentices. Presented at 3rd International Research Symposium on Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education (WACE), Stuttgart, Germany

Graduate Apprenticeship (GA) degrees bring new collaborations between universities and employers and new opportunities for apprentices—to gain a university degree, while also being in formal employment. In 2017, Scotland introduced funding for GAs: s... Read More about From work-integrated learning to learning-integrated work: motivations and apprehensions of Graduate Apprentices.

The University as a Community: Cross-Campus Shared Reading (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gray, A. (2018, June). The University as a Community: Cross-Campus Shared Reading. Paper presented at QAA 15th Enhancement Conference

As part of a shared reading scheme – the #NapierBigRead – the Publishing staff and Postgraduate students at Edinburgh Napier University are working together to encourage a sense of community and belonging that transcends disciplines and year groups.... Read More about The University as a Community: Cross-Campus Shared Reading.

Corporate Governance in small and medium sized firms: A study of Scottish enterprises (2018)
Journal Article
Crossan, K., Pershina, E., & Henschel, T. (2018). Corporate Governance in small and medium sized firms: A study of Scottish enterprises. Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics and Business Law, 7(2),

There have been a large number of studies examining how firms are governed and how they should be governed. However, these studies have mainly concerned themselves with large public limited firms. Given that most firms are small, there is a need to c... Read More about Corporate Governance in small and medium sized firms: A study of Scottish enterprises.

Playful learning (2018)
Journal Article
Langan, A. M., & Smart, F. (2018). Playful learning. Research in Learning Technology, 26, https://doi.org/10.25304/rlt.v26.2079

Item is Editorial Preface to themed collection published in the journal Research in Learning Technology.

These articles collate ideas and practices developed from workshops held at the second Playful Learning Conference in July 2017 (http://confe... Read More about Playful learning.

Understanding the status of underrepresented groups in the Information and Communication Technologies (2018)
Report
Graham, H., Raeside, R., & Maclean, G. (2018). Understanding the status of underrepresented groups in the Information and Communication Technologies. Edinburgh: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

This report presents the findings of a research project commissioned by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to explore the barriers facing under-represented groups in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) researc... Read More about Understanding the status of underrepresented groups in the Information and Communication Technologies.

Constructing English-medium instruction indicators in the shipping courses of Taiwan’s higher education (2018)
Journal Article
Tseng, P.-H., Richards, K., & Pilcher, N. (2018). Constructing English-medium instruction indicators in the shipping courses of Taiwan’s higher education. Maritime Business Review, https://doi.org/10.1108/mabr-07-2017-0020

English is a common language in the global shipping industry and many universities in non-English speaking countries in the world are now moving towards the use of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) to deliver their courses. Such a medium incre... Read More about Constructing English-medium instruction indicators in the shipping courses of Taiwan’s higher education.

Using pre-arrival shared reading to promote a sense of community: A case study across two institutions (2018)
Journal Article
Baverstock, A., Steinitz, J., Webster-Henderson, B., Bryars, L., Cairncross, S., Ennis, L., Morris, W., Gray, A., & McLuckie, C. (2018). Using pre-arrival shared reading to promote a sense of community: A case study across two institutions. Logos, 29(4), https://doi.org/10.1163/18784712-02904005

Seeking to improve student enrolment, engagement, and retention, Kingston University began a pre-arrival shared reading scheme in 2014–2015, sending a free book to every student about to start at the university and making copies available to staff in... Read More about Using pre-arrival shared reading to promote a sense of community: A case study across two institutions.

Constructing Active Learning Experiences (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Garden, C., & Ennis, L. (2018, January). Constructing Active Learning Experiences. Presented at ALIEN (Active Learning In Edinburgh Napier) Staff Conference

There are many methods for stimulating Active Learning in the Higher Education classroom. Active Learning occurs when higher-order thinking is invoked during learning events, prompting spontaneous analysis, synthesis, and evaluation in participants (... Read More about Constructing Active Learning Experiences.

What Is The ‘Academic Purpose’ Of ‘English’ In ‘English For Academic Purposes’? (2017)
Book Chapter
Pilcher, N., & Richards, K. (2017). What Is The ‘Academic Purpose’ Of ‘English’ In ‘English For Academic Purposes’?. In L. Tuen Wong, & W. Lam Wong (Eds.), Teaching and Learning English for Academic Purposes: Current Research and Practices. Nova Science Publishers

In this chapter, we suggest abandoning the current form of EAP for a form of EAP that is actively explorative of and taught within individual subject contexts. We argue that for students to meet the ‘academic purposes’ in academic subjects requires t... Read More about What Is The ‘Academic Purpose’ Of ‘English’ In ‘English For Academic Purposes’?.

The Beauty and the Abuse: A handbook on relationships and emotions in Academia (2017)
Book
Munar, A., Caton, K., Eger, C., Jeffrey, H., Khoo-Lattimore, C., Lynch, P., Morgan, N., & Young, E. (2017). The Beauty and the Abuse: A handbook on relationships and emotions in Academia. Copenhagen Business School

This handbook encourages dialogue and reflexivity on human relationships and emotions in academic environments. Fifteen vignettes inspired by real stories are presented. These narratives explore the light and shade of how love, friendship, eroticism,... Read More about The Beauty and the Abuse: A handbook on relationships and emotions in Academia.