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The Digital Library (2017)
Journal Article
Ennis, L. (2017). The Digital Library. Teaching fellows journal,

The meteoric rise of the internet has meant that we have access to more information than ever. Our informational lives, and those of our students are complex – fraught with issues of access, immediacy, discoverability, and quality. Increasingly, to b... Read More about The Digital Library.

International student transitions in Higher Education: Chinese students studying on a professionally accredited undergraduate accounting degree programme at a Scottish university (2017)
Thesis
Findlay, R. S. M. International student transitions in Higher Education: Chinese students studying on a professionally accredited undergraduate accounting degree programme at a Scottish university. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1037580

The UK Higher Education (UKHE) sector has expanded overseas student numbers in recent years bringing significant economic and financial benefits to the sector and the economy. Yet, overseas student numbers are now under threat due to international co... Read More about International student transitions in Higher Education: Chinese students studying on a professionally accredited undergraduate accounting degree programme at a Scottish university.

Comparable Student Experience project (2017)
Report
Weaver, M. (2017). Comparable Student Experience project. Global Online: Edinburgh Napier University

Strategic Investment Funding (Project Champion) £11,000 for Comparable Student Experience project

How Can Pre-Arrival Shared Reading Build a University Community?
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Baverstock, A., Morris, W., Ennis, L., & Moulton, J. (2017, March). How Can Pre-Arrival Shared Reading Build a University Community?. Presented at London International Book Fair Insights Seminar Series

Research tells us that involvement in reading for pleasure has positive outcomes. Similarly, research tells us that the earlier new students feel welcome in their university the more likely they are to stay and complete their degree. This presentatio... Read More about How Can Pre-Arrival Shared Reading Build a University Community?.

Visualising the future: surfacing student perspectives on post-graduation prospects using rich pictures (2017)
Journal Article
Berg, T., Bowen, T., Smith, C., & Smith, S. (2017). Visualising the future: surfacing student perspectives on post-graduation prospects using rich pictures. Higher Education Research and Development, 36(7), 1339-1354. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2017.1325855

The gradual commodification of higher education in the context of an increased focus on graduate employability attributes together with evolving labour markets is creating challenges for universities and students alike. For universities, there has be... Read More about Visualising the future: surfacing student perspectives on post-graduation prospects using rich pictures.

Bringing pupils into building energy performance: school design, construction and operation (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pomponi, F., Medina Campos, L., Moncaster, A., & Smith, S. (2017, July). Bringing pupils into building energy performance: school design, construction and operation. Presented at PLEA 2017 - Passive and Low Energy Architecture

Colegio Rochester is school in Colombia with a strong vision for sustainability. This vision permeates the new school building which was the first school in Latin America to be awarded a LEED Gold certification. This article uses Colegio Rochester as... Read More about Bringing pupils into building energy performance: school design, construction and operation.

Valuing feedback: an evaluation of a National Health Service programme to support compassionate care practice through hearing and responding to feedback (2017)
Journal Article
Smith, S., Gentleman, M., Conway, L., & Sloan, S. (2017). Valuing feedback: an evaluation of a National Health Service programme to support compassionate care practice through hearing and responding to feedback. Journal of Research in Nursing, 22(1-2), 112-127. https://doi.org/10.1177/1744987116685913

There is an emergent recognition in healthcare that people need to be at the heart of services, and experiences of care matter; these should therefore be recognised and enhance practice. The aims of this research were to evaluate an NHS development... Read More about Valuing feedback: an evaluation of a National Health Service programme to support compassionate care practice through hearing and responding to feedback.

Problematising the ‘Career Academic’ in UK construction and engineering education: does the system want what the system gets? (2017)
Journal Article
Pilcher, N., Forster, A., Tennant, S., Murray, M., & Craig, N. (2017). Problematising the ‘Career Academic’ in UK construction and engineering education: does the system want what the system gets?. European Journal of Engineering Education, 42(6), 1477-1495. https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2017.1306487

‘Career Academics’ are principally research-led, entering academia with limited or no industrial or practical experience. UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) welcome them for their potential to attain research grant funding and publish world-lead... Read More about Problematising the ‘Career Academic’ in UK construction and engineering education: does the system want what the system gets?.

Collaborative Outcomes Learning Tool (COLT) – A Multi-agency Educational Resource to Support Complex Public Protection Understanding and Practice (2016)
Journal Article
Heyman, I., Innes, G., & Goodhand, K. (2016). Collaborative Outcomes Learning Tool (COLT) – A Multi-agency Educational Resource to Support Complex Public Protection Understanding and Practice. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 4(3), https://doi.org/10.14297/jpaap.v4i3.168

Multi-agency public protection practice has received significant media and government scrutiny in recent years, in response to failings to protect those most vulnerable people in society. Despite an appreciation by agencies that there are resource a... Read More about Collaborative Outcomes Learning Tool (COLT) – A Multi-agency Educational Resource to Support Complex Public Protection Understanding and Practice.

Curriculum development through understanding the student nurse experience of suicide intervention education – A phenomenographic study (2015)
Journal Article
Heyman, I., Webster, B. J., & Tee, S. (2015). Curriculum development through understanding the student nurse experience of suicide intervention education – A phenomenographic study. Nurse Education in Practice, 15(6), 498-506. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2015.04.008

Suicide remains a global public health issue and a major governmental concern. The World Health Organisation argues for continued investment in education for front-line professionals, with a particular focus on nurses, to address the rising suicide l... Read More about Curriculum development through understanding the student nurse experience of suicide intervention education – A phenomenographic study.

Challenging the power invested in the International English Language Testing System (IELTS): Why determining ‘English’ preparedness needs to be undertaken within the subject context (2017)
Journal Article
Pilcher, N., & Richards, K. (2017). Challenging the power invested in the International English Language Testing System (IELTS): Why determining ‘English’ preparedness needs to be undertaken within the subject context. Power and Education, 9(1), 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/1757743817691995

Higher Education (HE) institutions worldwide base international student recruitment on the assumption their preparedness in ‘English’ is assured if they reach a certain level in tests such as the International English Language Testing System (IELTS).... Read More about Challenging the power invested in the International English Language Testing System (IELTS): Why determining ‘English’ preparedness needs to be undertaken within the subject context.

Beyond criminal justice: connecting justice and sustainability (2016)
Journal Article
Hallenberg, K. M., & Haddow, C. (2016). Beyond criminal justice: connecting justice and sustainability. Law Teacher, 50(3), 352-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2016.1262985

The potential of higher education in advancing sustainability has been widely accepted and even partly realised, although a wholesale reorientation of core activities and curricula toward and embedded with sustainability is still an exception. But ev... Read More about Beyond criminal justice: connecting justice and sustainability.

Feedback, Feedforward, or Dialogue?: Defining a Model for Self-Regulated Learning (2017)
Book Chapter
Carver, M. (2017). Feedback, Feedforward, or Dialogue?: Defining a Model for Self-Regulated Learning. In Innovative Practices for Higher Education Assessment and Measurement; Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development (1-18). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0531-0.ch001

Better feedback is commonly demanded by students and institutions as a way of improving student satisfaction, encouraging more scholarly approaches to assessment, and building students' capacity for self-regulated learning. Student responses to surve... Read More about Feedback, Feedforward, or Dialogue?: Defining a Model for Self-Regulated Learning.

Involving students in the scholarship of assessment: student voices on the feedback agenda for change (2013)
Book Chapter
Sambell, K. (2013). Involving students in the scholarship of assessment: student voices on the feedback agenda for change. In S. Merry, M. Price, D. Carless, & M. Taras (Eds.), Reconceptualising feedback in higher education: developing dialogue with students (80-91). Routledge

This chapter focuses on an initiative which sought to promote and deepen students’ awareness, reflection and conceptual development with regard to assessment for learning (McDowell et al, 2006) in higher education. It involved developing a course whi... Read More about Involving students in the scholarship of assessment: student voices on the feedback agenda for change.

A Critical Auto/Ethnography of Learning Spanish: Intercultural Competence on the Gringo Trail? (2017)
Book
Stanley, P. (2017). A Critical Auto/Ethnography of Learning Spanish: Intercultural Competence on the Gringo Trail?. Routledge

The premise that intercultural contact produces intercultural competence underpins much rationalization of backpacker tourism and in-country language education. However, if insufficiently problematized, pre-existing constructions of cultural 'otherne... Read More about A Critical Auto/Ethnography of Learning Spanish: Intercultural Competence on the Gringo Trail?.

The cultural dimension of industrial ecology education: success story of a sustainable integrated curriculum in Chía, Colombia (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pomponi, F., Medina Campos, L., & Moncaster, A. (2016). The cultural dimension of industrial ecology education: success story of a sustainable integrated curriculum in Chía, Colombia.

Industrial ecology higher education courses and degrees are gaining momentum across the world. However, much can also be done at earlier educational stages to create future generations for which industrial ecology will be an embedded and natural conc... Read More about The cultural dimension of industrial ecology education: success story of a sustainable integrated curriculum in Chía, Colombia.

Aspirations and progression of event management graduates: A study of career development (2017)
Journal Article
Barron, P., & Ali-Knight, J. (2017). Aspirations and progression of event management graduates: A study of career development. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 30, 29-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2017.01.005

The provision of event management education in the higher education sector has grown significantly in recent years, yet little is known of the circumstances of the increasing number of graduates from these programmes. This paper examines the motivati... Read More about Aspirations and progression of event management graduates: A study of career development.

Beyond aspirations: deploying the capability approach to tackle the under-representation in higher education of young people from deprived communities (2017)
Journal Article
Campbell, L. A., & McKendrick, J. H. (2017). Beyond aspirations: deploying the capability approach to tackle the under-representation in higher education of young people from deprived communities. Studies in Continuing Education, 39(2), 120-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/0158037x.2017.1293630

This paper re-examines the low participation of young people from deprived communities through the lens of the capability approach. A fundamental problem for tackling widening participation is that much of the thinking of policymakers is grounded on... Read More about Beyond aspirations: deploying the capability approach to tackle the under-representation in higher education of young people from deprived communities.