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The CATE Collection: Together in Collaborative Educational Leadership (2021)
Book
Tolson, D., Watchman Smith, N., Irving-Bell, D., & Weaver, M. (Eds.). (2021). The CATE Collection: Together in Collaborative Educational Leadership. Higher Education Academy

The inaugural CATE Collection is a resource for all involved in higher education, who have a passion for innovation in learning and teaching that is evidence-informed, proven in practice and collaboratively shaped with students. The acronym CATE stan... Read More about The CATE Collection: Together in Collaborative Educational Leadership.

Translational Applications of Wearable Sensors in Education: Implementation and Efficacy (2022)
Journal Article
Ferrier, B., Lee, J., Mbuli, A., & James, D. A. (2022). Translational Applications of Wearable Sensors in Education: Implementation and Efficacy. Sensors, 22(4), Article 1675. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22041675

Background: Adding new approaches to teaching curriculums can be both expensive and complex to learn. The aim of this research was to gain insight into students' literacy and confidence in learning sports science with new wearable technologies, speci... Read More about Translational Applications of Wearable Sensors in Education: Implementation and Efficacy.

Gamified Learning in Higher Education: An Instructional Design Method to Improve Engagement (2022)
Book Chapter
Garden, C., & Rivera, E. (2022). Gamified Learning in Higher Education: An Instructional Design Method to Improve Engagement. In O. Bernardes, V. Amorim, & A. Carrizo Moreira (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Influence and Effectiveness of Gamification in Education (497-520). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4287-6

Gamification and Design Thinking can be thought of as part of Instructional Design (ID) in the Higher Education (HE) context. Each of these fields has much to learn from the others. For example, although there is a lack of agreed method to gamify lea... Read More about Gamified Learning in Higher Education: An Instructional Design Method to Improve Engagement.

STEM educational engagement through competition, sport and wearable technology (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
James, D., Lee, J., Ohgi, Y., Petrone, N., Willis, C., Ferrier, B., Wada, T., Al-Rawi, M., & Parker, J. (2022, June). STEM educational engagement through competition, sport and wearable technology. Poster presented at International Sports Engineering Association: The Engineering of Sport 14, Purdue University, US

Student engagement in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) activities are often perceived as solitary activities, resulting in a limited range of students that are intrinsically interested in it [1]. Historically STEM activities ar... Read More about STEM educational engagement through competition, sport and wearable technology.

Digital Pedagogy & Learning Design (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Drumm, L. (2021, November). Digital Pedagogy & Learning Design. Paper presented at The EdTech & Digital Learning Conference, Online

Evolving ecologies in digital education - A perspective from Scotland (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Drumm, L., & Zike, J. (2022, May). Evolving ecologies in digital education - A perspective from Scotland. Paper presented at Irish Learning Technology Association’s Annual Conference ‘EdTech 2022’, University College Cork

Ecosystems balance in a delicate dynamic of motion and change. When hit with a disturbance, an ecosystem's resilience is tested and any vacuum quickly filled by those well-suited to the new conditions. The ecologies wherein teaching occurs in higher... Read More about Evolving ecologies in digital education - A perspective from Scotland.

Academic, clinical and personal experiences of undergraduate healthcare students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective cohort study (2022)
Journal Article
McFadden, S., Guille, S., Daly-Lynn, J., O’Neill, B., Marley, J., Hanratty, C., Shepherd, P., Ramsey, L., Breen, C., Duffy, O., Jones, A., Kerr, D., & Hughes, C. (2022). Academic, clinical and personal experiences of undergraduate healthcare students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective cohort study. PLOS ONE, 17(7), Article e0271873. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271873

Background Coronavirus disease 2019 has impacted upon the role and safety of healthcare workers, with the potential to have a lasting effect on their wellbeing. Limited research has been conducted during previous pandemics exploring how student heal... Read More about Academic, clinical and personal experiences of undergraduate healthcare students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective cohort study.

Supporting the learning experience of health‐related profession students during clinical placements with technology: A systematic review (2022)
Journal Article
Jones, A., Wilson, I., McClean, S., Kerr, D., & Breen, C. (2022). Supporting the learning experience of health‐related profession students during clinical placements with technology: A systematic review. Review of Education, 10(2), Article e3364. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3364

High quality clinical education is a fundamental component of undergraduate health-related professions programmes. Technological interventions offer potential to support and enhance student learning experiences during clinical placements, i.e. away f... Read More about Supporting the learning experience of health‐related profession students during clinical placements with technology: A systematic review.

Harnessing innovation approaches to support community and belonging in Higher Education (2023)
Journal Article
Haddow, C., & Brodie, J. (in press). Harnessing innovation approaches to support community and belonging in Higher Education. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2023.2176907

The COVID-19 Pandemic has ushered in significant challenges for supporting community and belonging in Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs). This paper seeks to provide key recommendations to strengthen such activity, through a critical evaluation o... Read More about Harnessing innovation approaches to support community and belonging in Higher Education.

Civil Engineering Graduate Apprenticeships: A feasibility study into development of an MSc programme based on review of current undergraduate provision (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Leitch, K., Bernal-Sanchez, J., & Macfarlane, R. (2022, September). Civil Engineering Graduate Apprenticeships: A feasibility study into development of an MSc programme based on review of current undergraduate provision. Presented at 8th International Symposium for Engineering Education, Glasgow

This paper details the findings of a study undertaken at Edinburgh Napier University to assess the feasibility of developing an existing Graduate Apprentice programme in Civil Engineering to a MSc level. Using a mixed methods approach, data from a se... Read More about Civil Engineering Graduate Apprenticeships: A feasibility study into development of an MSc programme based on review of current undergraduate provision.

Sharing International Student Stories: Building Resilient Post-Covid Learning Communities (2022)
Book Chapter
Garden, C., & Brodie, J. (2022). Sharing International Student Stories: Building Resilient Post-Covid Learning Communities. In C. Nerantzi, & A. James (Eds.), LEGO® for university learning: Online, offline and elsewhere (117-119). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7421754

This Quality Assurance Agency Scotland–funded mini project focused on the Resilient Learning Communities Enhancement Theme. We sought to identify enhancement to support building of resilient learning communities for International Postgraduate Taught... Read More about Sharing International Student Stories: Building Resilient Post-Covid Learning Communities.

Science Communication Through Poetry (2022)
Digital Artefact
Illingworth, S. (2022). Science Communication Through Poetry. [Blog]

Science and poetry are both used to understand human nature and our world. Why not combine their strengths?

From science to stanzas – The role of poetry in research communication (2022)
Digital Artefact
Illingworth, S. (2022). From science to stanzas – The role of poetry in research communication. [Blog]

Poetry can be perceived as the antithesis of science, indicative of a non-rational mode of thought, and famously banished from Plato’s ideal republic. However, as a form of communication poetry presents a unique way of engaging audiences and empoweri... Read More about From science to stanzas – The role of poetry in research communication.

Friendship as Method? Friendship as Epistemology? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2022, June). Friendship as Method? Friendship as Epistemology?. Paper presented at 11th European Feminist Research Conference: "Social Change in a Feminist Perspective", Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, IT

Friendship gained across years some traction in kinship research, recently especially within the ‘queer kinship’ debates, as a strong manifestation for the need and drive of alternative ‘families of choice’. With this presentation I want to focus on... Read More about Friendship as Method? Friendship as Epistemology?.

Surveying Friendship. What the Quantitative Data Tell Us About Friendship among LGBT Communities (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2018, October). Surveying Friendship. What the Quantitative Data Tell Us About Friendship among LGBT Communities. Paper presented at Queering Friendship: Citizenship, Care and Choice (‘Intimate’ Project), University of Lisbon, Lisbon, PT

2018, Surveying Friendship. What the Quantitative Data Tell Us About Friendship among LGBT Communities. To: Queering Friendship: Citizenship, Care and Choice (‘Intimate’ Project), University of Lisbon. https://www.ces.uc.pt/intimate/index.php?id=1... Read More about Surveying Friendship. What the Quantitative Data Tell Us About Friendship among LGBT Communities.

Press Release. EU Funded Project "Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics (RESIST)" Launches (2022)
Other
Boulila, S., Browne, K., Chauvin, S., Filep, K., Blidon, M., Zarate, M., Akyuz, L., Titley, G., Carastathis, A., & Kulpa, R. (2022). Press Release. EU Funded Project "Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics (RESIST)" Launches. Dublin

Anti-gender politics pose a grave threat to modern democratic formations because they challenge people's everyday survival, bodily integrity, and self-determination. Anti-gender spans the political spectrum and manifests not only in illiberal and aut... Read More about Press Release. EU Funded Project "Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics (RESIST)" Launches.

Queer Politics of Post-Enlightenment (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2021, December). Queer Politics of Post-Enlightenment. Presented at Working transnationally beyond comparative hierarchies: Exploring relationalities, solidarities and changing conditions in transnational research and pedagogies, Lund University, Sweden

This invited presentation reflected on the contemporary queer studies and the geo-temporal ‘unsettlement’ of Central and Eastern Europe in the occidental (and occidentalist) imaginary. Dr Kulpa pointed to the uncanny possibilities for queer studi... Read More about Queer Politics of Post-Enlightenment.

Post-Enlightenment: Can We Go Beyond Occidentalist Epistemologies and Geo-Politics in Queer Studies? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2022, December). Post-Enlightenment: Can We Go Beyond Occidentalist Epistemologies and Geo-Politics in Queer Studies?. Presented at Go West! Conceptual Explorations of “The West” in History of Education, University of Münster, Germany

The invited lecture reflected on the contemporary queer studies and the geo-temporal ‘unsettlement’ of Central and Eastern Europe in the occidental (and occidentalist) imaginary. Dr Kulpa pointed to the uncanny possibilities for queer studies eme... Read More about Post-Enlightenment: Can We Go Beyond Occidentalist Epistemologies and Geo-Politics in Queer Studies?.

Futures and Analytics Research (FAR) Hub (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crawford, M., & Smith, M. (2021, September). Futures and Analytics Research (FAR) Hub. Paper presented at OR63 Online: Creating a better future, Online

Our team would like to present our recent development of an inclusive online learning centre for students and faculty, as a call to action, post-pandemic. The FAR Hub is an online resource for teaching, skill building, and knowledge exchange, with a... Read More about Futures and Analytics Research (FAR) Hub.