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Combatting and analysing organized crime: the view from witnesses (2015)
Journal Article
Woodiwiss, M. (2015). Combatting and analysing organized crime: the view from witnesses. Trends in Organized Crime, 18(1-2), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-015-9247-y

© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This special issue of Trends in Organized Crime begins with a tribute to Joseph Albini who died in 2013 written by his colleague Jeff McIllwain and ends with Matthew G. Yeager’s reexamination of the c... Read More about Combatting and analysing organized crime: the view from witnesses.

Reconceptualizing design research in the age of mobile learning (2015)
Journal Article
Bannan, B., Cook, J., & Pachler, N. (2016). Reconceptualizing design research in the age of mobile learning. Interactive Learning Environments, 24(5), 938-953. https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2015.1018911

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. The purpose of this paper is to begin to examine how the intersection of mobile learning and design research prompts the reconceptualization of research and design individually as well as their integration appropriate for c... Read More about Reconceptualizing design research in the age of mobile learning.

The medium is the message? (2015)
Journal Article
Sparke, S. (2015). The medium is the message?

Using the Bourdieusian lens of the signalling of distinction through choice of discourse, this paper examines discourses surrounding recent changes in the moving image, specifically the growth of digital technologies of capture, edit and display, and... Read More about The medium is the message?.

Don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it's gone? Skills-led qualifications, secondary school attainment and policy choices (2015)
Journal Article
Harrison, N., James, D., & Last, K. (2015). Don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it's gone? Skills-led qualifications, secondary school attainment and policy choices. Research Papers in Education, 30(5), 585-608. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2014.1002526

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. In the name of curriculum breadth and raising standards, recent government policy in England has removed a large number of non-academic qualifications from the list of those that secondary schools can count in league tables... Read More about Don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it's gone? Skills-led qualifications, secondary school attainment and policy choices.

“Take That, Bitches!” Refiguring Lara Croft in Feminist game narratives (2014)
Journal Article
MacCallum-Stewart, E. (2014). “Take That, Bitches!” Refiguring Lara Croft in Feminist game narratives

Since Lara first “bust” onto our screens in 1996 in Tomb Raider (Edios Interactive), she has been a focal point for critical debate surrounding the representation of the female protagonist and the gendered body in games. Nearly twenty years after her... Read More about “Take That, Bitches!” Refiguring Lara Croft in Feminist game narratives.

Scaling informal learning at the workplace: A model and four designs from a large-scale design-based research effort (2014)
Journal Article
Ley, T., Cook, J., Dennerlein, S., Kravcik, M., Kunzmann, C., Pata, K., …Trattner, C. (2014). Scaling informal learning at the workplace: A model and four designs from a large-scale design-based research effort. British Journal of Educational Technology, 45(6), 1036-1048. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12197

© 2014 British Educational Research Association. Workplace learning happens in the process and context of work, is multi-episodic, often informal, problem based and takes place on a just-in-time basis. While this is a very effective means of delivery... Read More about Scaling informal learning at the workplace: A model and four designs from a large-scale design-based research effort.

Augmenting reality and formality of informal and non-formal settings to enhance blended learning (2014)
Journal Article
Hernández-Leo, D., Pérez-Sanagustín, M., Perez-Sanagustin, M., Hernandez-Leo, D., Santos, P., Kloos, C. D., & Blat, J. (2014). Augmenting reality and formality of informal and non-formal settings to enhance blended learning. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 7(2), 118-131. https://doi.org/10.1109/TLT.2014.2312719

Visits to museums and city tours have been part of higher and secondary education curriculum activities for many years. However these activities are typically considered "less formal" when compared to those carried out in the classroom, mainly becaus... Read More about Augmenting reality and formality of informal and non-formal settings to enhance blended learning.

The location patterns of artistic clusters: A metro- and neighborhood-level analysis (2014)
Journal Article
Grodach, C., Currid-Halkett, E., Foster, N., & Murdoch, J. (2014). The location patterns of artistic clusters: A metro- and neighborhood-level analysis. Urban Studies, 51(13), 2822-2843. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013516523

Analysing census and industry data at the metro and neighbourhood levels, this paper seeks to identify the location characteristics associated with artistic clusters and determine how these characteristics vary across different places. We find that t... Read More about The location patterns of artistic clusters: A metro- and neighborhood-level analysis.