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Using an Outdoor Learning Space to Teach Sustainability and Material Processes in HE Product Design (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Firth, R., Stoltenberg, E., & Jennings, T. (2015, November). Using an Outdoor Learning Space to Teach Sustainability and Material Processes in HE Product Design. Presented at iJADE Conference: Sustainability in Creative Arts Education, Glasgow, UK

The world is facing environmental changes that are increasingly affecting how we think about manufacturing, the consumption of products and use of resources. Within the HE product design community, thinking and designing sustainability’ has evolved t... Read More about Using an Outdoor Learning Space to Teach Sustainability and Material Processes in HE Product Design.

Redefining leadership in a higher education context: Views from the front line (2016)
Thesis
Cook, M. C. Redefining leadership in a higher education context: Views from the front line. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/978802

The study aim was to investigate the perceptions of senior leaders within the sector to determine their views of the key challenges in contemporary academic leadership and to inform practice for the future.

Academic leadership is a key component o... Read More about Redefining leadership in a higher education context: Views from the front line.

Matching and mismatch: understanding employer expectations of work placement applicants (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, C., & Smith, S. (2016, September). Matching and mismatch: understanding employer expectations of work placement applicants. Paper presented at ACEN

The success and sustainability of work-integrated learning (WIL) is an abiding concern for universities, as institutions seek to mainstream WIL within academic programmes. A supply of placement opportunities, and students successfully being appointe... Read More about Matching and mismatch: understanding employer expectations of work placement applicants.

Academic Diary Or Why Higher Education Still Matters (2016)
Journal Article
Hanna, B. (2016). Academic Diary Or Why Higher Education Still Matters. Teaching Fellows Journal, Autumn 2016, 23

On the outside of this book the spine is now broken. The plastic red covering is beginning to curl away slightly from the edges of cover. This is a book which I have carried with me; jammed into bags and packed into luggage for those moments when a g... Read More about Academic Diary Or Why Higher Education Still Matters.

An exploratory study of the relationship between psychosocial hazard and ambulatory physiological response in higher education employees (2016)
Journal Article
Campbell, T. G., Davison, R., Florida-James, G., & Westbury, T. (2016). An exploratory study of the relationship between psychosocial hazard and ambulatory physiological response in higher education employees. International Journal of Workplace Health Management, 9(3), 360-374. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJWHM-11-2015-0068

Purpose: as exposure to psychosocial hazard at work represents a substantial risk factor for employee health in many modern occupations, being able to accurately assess how employees cope with their working environment is crucial. As the workplace is... Read More about An exploratory study of the relationship between psychosocial hazard and ambulatory physiological response in higher education employees.

Flipped Classroom Model: Effects on Performance, Attitudes and Perceptions in High School Algebra (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Esperanza, P., Fabian, K., & Toto, C. (2016, September). Flipped Classroom Model: Effects on Performance, Attitudes and Perceptions in High School Algebra. Presented at European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning EC-TEL 2016, Lyon, France

In this study, we evaluated student perceptions of the flipped classroom model and its effects to students’ performance and attitudes to mathematics. A randomized controlled trial with 91 high school algebra students was conducted. The experimental g... Read More about Flipped Classroom Model: Effects on Performance, Attitudes and Perceptions in High School Algebra.

A longitudinal interpretive phenomenological investigation into latent entrepreneurial learning processes: Key implications for entrepreneurial education. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Devlin, J. (2016, September). A longitudinal interpretive phenomenological investigation into latent entrepreneurial learning processes: Key implications for entrepreneurial education. Poster presented at British Academy of Management, Newcastle, UK

The effectiveness and value of entrepreneurship education is much debated within academic literature. The individual’s experience is advocated as being key to shaping entrepreneurial education and design through a multiplicity of theoretical concepts... Read More about A longitudinal interpretive phenomenological investigation into latent entrepreneurial learning processes: Key implications for entrepreneurial education..

Exploring Intercultural Awareness: International Student Mobility in China and the UK through a Non-Essentialist Lens (2016)
Book Chapter
Foster, M. (2016). Exploring Intercultural Awareness: International Student Mobility in China and the UK through a Non-Essentialist Lens. In D. M. Velliaris, & D. Coleman-George (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Study Abroad Programs and Outbound Mobility; Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development (349-369). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0169-5.ch014

In the research literature regarding international students' learning experiences, a frequently studied theme is the ‘Chinese culture of learning' as contrasted by the ‘Western/United Kingdom (UK) culture of learning'. This essentialist approach tend... Read More about Exploring Intercultural Awareness: International Student Mobility in China and the UK through a Non-Essentialist Lens.

Exploring intercultural awareness: international student mobility in China and the UK through a non-essentialist lens. (2016)
Book Chapter
Foster, M. (2016). Exploring intercultural awareness: international student mobility in China and the UK through a non-essentialist lens. In D. Velliaris, & D. Coleman-George (Eds.), Handbook of research on study abroad programs and outbound mobility (349-370). IGI Global

This chapter is focused on the increased internationalisation of teaching and learning in Higher Education (HE) worldwide (Knight 2006; Caruana & Spurling, 2007) and specifically the ambition to internationalise the student experience (Hyland et al.,... Read More about Exploring intercultural awareness: international student mobility in China and the UK through a non-essentialist lens..

The Role of Experienced Practitioners in Engineering Education: the End of an Era? (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Craig, N., Tennant, S., Murray, M., Forster, A., & Pilcher, N. (2016, July). The Role of Experienced Practitioners in Engineering Education: the End of an Era?. Presented at ISEE 6th International Symposium for Engineering Education

Delivering excellence in higher engineering education is dependent on many variables. This includes programme design, delivery and content, university support and the knowledge, experience and enthusiasm of faculty members. Over the past decade there... Read More about The Role of Experienced Practitioners in Engineering Education: the End of an Era?.

Foreword (2016)
Book Chapter
Webster-Henderson, B. (2016). Foreword. In C. Penman, & M. Foster (Eds.), Innovations in learning and teaching: showcasing new approaches to higher education. Merchiston Publishing

Use of Dialogue for Fellowship (2016)
Report
Pilkington, R. (2016). Use of Dialogue for Fellowship. York: Higher Education Academy

This report, authored by Dr Ruth Pilkington, outlines lessons, issues and recommendations for those using a dialogic route and is illustrated by good practice case studies shared by colleagues leading accredited schemes which successfully use dialogu... Read More about Use of Dialogue for Fellowship.

Poetic transcription with a twist: supporting early career academics through liminal spaces (2016)
Journal Article
Smart, F., & Loads, D. (2016). Poetic transcription with a twist: supporting early career academics through liminal spaces. International Journal for Academic Development, 22(2), 134-143. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144x.2016.1210519

As pressures on new academic staff members increase and change, academic developers need to find different ways of working with them. This paper offers for discussion a new way of supporting early career academics in their negotiation of liminality,... Read More about Poetic transcription with a twist: supporting early career academics through liminal spaces.

Brokering between communities of practice: strenghening learning with co-operative practices (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tierney, A. (2016, July). Brokering between communities of practice: strenghening learning with co-operative practices. Paper presented at Improving Univesity Teaching

There is a growing trend in Higher Education to separate researchers' and teachers' roles. In the UK, pressure for this comes from the Research Excellence Framework, which demands world class research in return for government funding. An unintended c... Read More about Brokering between communities of practice: strenghening learning with co-operative practices.

‘Observation has set in’: comparing students and peers as reviewers of teaching (2016)
Journal Article
Huxham, M., Scoles, J., Green, U., Purves, S., Welsh, Z., & Gray, A. (2017). ‘Observation has set in’: comparing students and peers as reviewers of teaching. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 42(6), 887-899. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2016.1204594

Peer review is a powerful method to enhance teaching in higher education. Peers, however, may not be the most relevant people in evaluating teaching success; as the most important stakeholders in learning, students’ evaluations need to be heard. Whil... Read More about ‘Observation has set in’: comparing students and peers as reviewers of teaching.

The Changing Nature of Academic Work in the UK. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ellis, V. (2016, July). The Changing Nature of Academic Work in the UK. Presented at 3rd ISA Forum of Scoiology - The Future We Want: global sociology and the struggles for a better world

Although, seemingly involved in a perpetual process of ‘evolution’ universities, and those that work within them, have been subject to unprecedented change over the past twenty years or so. The ongoing erosion of welfare states with the concomitant d... Read More about The Changing Nature of Academic Work in the UK..

An analysis of EHEA Business School approaches to the development, configuration and management of international academic alliances (2016)
Thesis
Harte, P. An analysis of EHEA Business School approaches to the development, configuration and management of international academic alliances. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/976954

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.

The Perceptions of Postgraduate International Students of Examinations (2016)
Journal Article
Cruickshank, P. (2016). The Perceptions of Postgraduate International Students of Examinations. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 4(3), https://doi.org/10.14297/jpaap.v4i3.200

The increasing internationalisation of higher education means that many students in the UK are not native English speakers, possibly putting them at a disadvantage in an examination environment. However, exams continue to be used even though although... Read More about The Perceptions of Postgraduate International Students of Examinations.