Outputs (19)

"Make sure that everybody feels there is a space for them": Understanding and promoting appearance inclusivity at university (2024)
Journal Article

Appearance concerns are a pervasive issue affecting many university students and contributing to poor psychosocial and academic outcomes. To combat these, action is needed by universities to promote appearance inclusivity. The current study used indu... Read More about "Make sure that everybody feels there is a space for them": Understanding and promoting appearance inclusivity at university.

Racial diversity and police education in England and Wales (2024)
Book Chapter

The curriculum of these entry routes into a career in policing – Degree Holder Entry Programme (DHEP), Police Constable Degree Apprenticeships (PCDA) and Professional Policing Degree Programme (PPD) is based on the skills required to be a ‘modern’ p... Read More about Racial diversity and police education in England and Wales.

Alternative education: Inclusion beyond the mainstream (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This panel responds to February’s review of alternative provision in England (CQC & Ofsted, 2024) and June’s BBC investigation revealing that numbers of UK children moving from schools to home education are at their highest levels since covid (Hatten... Read More about Alternative education: Inclusion beyond the mainstream.

Disabled students and placements: Barriers and challenges (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The UK is experiencing a persistent skills gap which has grown since the COVID-19 pandemic. One factor that contributes toward the skill gap is university students graduating, but not being equipped with the necessary employability skills to meet gra... Read More about Disabled students and placements: Barriers and challenges.

Transcending equality, diversity and inclusion at work. A self-critical engagement (2024)
Book

The book reflects on ways of transcending Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) by establishing a dialogue between the professional experience of the authors and experts from academia and practitioners from financial services and executive search.... Read More about Transcending equality, diversity and inclusion at work. A self-critical engagement.

Demystifying executive function (2024)
Journal Article

Executive function (EF) is an umbrella term for a set of complex and nuanced cognitive processes believed to be uniquely human. EF allows for planning, adaptation and self-regulation to meet personal or imposed goals. It develops from early childhood... Read More about Demystifying executive function.

Exploring materiality: Advancing tectonic understanding through large-scale reproduction in two and three dimensions (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The first year of architectural education marks a period of foundational exploration, where students encounter a multitude of firsts and advance quickly. It marks their first exposure to design briefs and concepts, diagramming techniques, and the app... Read More about Exploring materiality: Advancing tectonic understanding through large-scale reproduction in two and three dimensions.

Hanging onto the ladder - The impact of biased Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) on Early Career Researchers (ECRs) (2024)
Report

This article looks at the EDI issues and the impact of bias from Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) on the career development of Early Career Researchers. The study summarised previous literature on SET bias that disadvantaged female, non-native En... Read More about Hanging onto the ladder - The impact of biased Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) on Early Career Researchers (ECRs).

Transition away from school: A framework to support professional understandings (2023)
Journal Article

The numbers of children with 'special educational needs' deregistering from UK schools to begin home-education has been increasing. This article is based on findings from a survey of 93 families of such children in England, Scotland and Wales conduct... Read More about Transition away from school: A framework to support professional understandings.

Family transitions, ‘special’ education and home education (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Recent years have seen families of certain schoolchildren encouraged to deregister and begin home education. Ofsted (2019) considers the practice to serve a school’s purposes rather than children’s best interests. The Children’s Commissioner (2019) s... Read More about Family transitions, ‘special’ education and home education.

The value of creativity: Architectural divergence & regulatory convergence (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

At the beginning of the 2023-24 academic year, the architectural design community in the United Kingdom, is cautiously anticipating the Architect’s Registration Board, to provide the new guidelines and regulations for the delivery of architectural ed... Read More about The value of creativity: Architectural divergence & regulatory convergence.

Diversity and inclusion: Creating a culture of equity in the biosciences (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Abstract: Globally, science remains exclusive and inequalities continue for minoritised communities in the UK, US and across the world. Access to learning resources, quality of learning experiences and graduate outcomes continues to impact minoritise... Read More about Diversity and inclusion: Creating a culture of equity in the biosciences.

Inclusive spaces for neurodivergent/neurominority students in higher education (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Due to the epistemic, hermeneutical injustice of neurodivergent voices, inclusive language to express and interpret experiences has been excluded from centres of language generation (higher education, journalism, and governance). Through the use of t... Read More about Inclusive spaces for neurodivergent/neurominority students in higher education.

Building allies: The role of diversity allies in built environment higher education courses (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The lack of diversity has been recognised in the Built Environment and Construction industry, and solutions to address this are both achieving diversity within Higher Education, as well as improving workplace culture to increase retention of a divers... Read More about Building allies: The role of diversity allies in built environment higher education courses.

Telepresence teaching in higher education as a reasonable adjustment: Pilot project report 2022 (2022)
Report

Connecting environment and community: Building students’ capacities as future environmental professionals (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As we find ourselves in a period of environmental emergency, it has become clear that we need to transform environmental management teaching. Critically, we need to prepare students to become professionals who respond to environmental challenges as i... Read More about Connecting environment and community: Building students’ capacities as future environmental professionals.

Hustling, hybridity and changing attitudes to work in the arts (2022)
Journal Article

For years, entry-level placement schemes have been one of the cultural sector’s main answers to broadening the diversity of organisations and recruiting younger practitioners who may not access positions through standard routes. While unpaid
interns... Read More about Hustling, hybridity and changing attitudes to work in the arts.

Non-walkability in the car-centric city (2021)
Thesis

Background
Increasing the levels of walking for transport is a widespread urban policy goal, aligning with actions related to climate change, public health, equity of access and participation, and more liveable cities. The walking environment (WE),... Read More about Non-walkability in the car-centric city.

Youth Work, Galleries and the Politics of Partnership (2019)
Book

This book sheds critical light on the routinely debated issue of how to create sustainable, equitable and meaningful partnerships between visual art organisations and youth organisations. Using a Bourdieusian framework, this book analyses the differe... Read More about Youth Work, Galleries and the Politics of Partnership.