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Conservative Education Reloaded: Policy, Ideology and Impacts in England (2016)
Journal Article
Hill, D., Lewis, C., Maisuria, A., Yarker, P., & Hill, J. (2016). Conservative Education Reloaded: Policy, Ideology and Impacts in England. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 14(3), 1-42

This article, written in December 2016 following the election in May 2016 of a majority Conservative government, and the election to the leadership of the Labour Party of Jeremy Corbyn, a left-wing social democrat, ?Old Labour style socialist?, revis... Read More about Conservative Education Reloaded: Policy, Ideology and Impacts in England.

After a Foundation Degree (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Bovill, H. (2016, December). After a Foundation Degree. Paper presented at SRHE International Conference on Research into Higher Education, Newport, Wales, UK

Evaluating outreach activities: overcoming challenges through a realist ‘small steps’ approach (2016)
Journal Article
Harrison, N., & Waller, R. (2017). Evaluating outreach activities: overcoming challenges through a realist ‘small steps’ approach. Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 21(2-3), 81-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603108.2016.1256353

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Practitioners are being placed under increasing pressure to evaluate the success of their outreach activities, both by government and by their own universities. Based in a reductionist d... Read More about Evaluating outreach activities: overcoming challenges through a realist ‘small steps’ approach.

Reflexive ethnographic research practice in multilingual contexts (2016)
Book Chapter
Martin-Jones, M., Andrews, J., & Martin, D. (2016). Reflexive ethnographic research practice in multilingual contexts. In M. Martin-Jones, & D. Martin (Eds.), Researching Multilingualism: Critical and Ethnographic Approaches (189-202). London: Routledge

In this chapter we critically review the potential contribution of taking a linguistic ethnographic approach to research in service provision in health and education in multilingual settings.

Access to higher education: Theoretical perspectives and contemporary challenges (2016)
Book
Mountford-Zimdars, A., & Harrison, N. (2016). Access to higher education: Theoretical perspectives and contemporary challenges. London: Routledge

How do we understand and explain who has access to higher education? How do we make sense of persisting and new forms of inequality? How can global, national and institutional policymakers and practitioners make higher education more inclusive? Acces... Read More about Access to higher education: Theoretical perspectives and contemporary challenges.

Motivating students to achieve in a vocational services sector programme within further education (2016)
Thesis
George, D. J. Motivating students to achieve in a vocational services sector programme within further education. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/906409

This thesis explores learning motivation in a vocational further education setting, and investigates whether and why learners may not be achieving as highly as expected. The purpose of this study was to explore a learner’s transition into further edu... Read More about Motivating students to achieve in a vocational services sector programme within further education.

Emotion in UK primary schools: Silenced voices in a performance driven culture? (2016)
Thesis
Saunders, J. (in press). Emotion in UK primary schools: Silenced voices in a performance driven culture?. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/838681

The change in the education system over the last 30 years has altered what it means to be a teacher. Current literature suggests the present focus is on performance and targets (Ball, 2003) and the central remit is to produce desired outcomes in an i... Read More about Emotion in UK primary schools: Silenced voices in a performance driven culture?.

Class Struggle in Cultural Formation in Contemporary Times: A Focus on the Theoretical Importance of Antonio Gramsci and the Organic Intellectualism of Russell Brand (2016)
Journal Article
Maisuria, A. (2016). Class Struggle in Cultural Formation in Contemporary Times: A Focus on the Theoretical Importance of Antonio Gramsci and the Organic Intellectualism of Russell Brand. Knowledge Cultures, 4(6), 81--96

The importance of education for social transformation is not exclusively something that is done in schools and universities. Taking education in its broadest formulation ? something that happens all of the time, in this article I posit the argument t... Read More about Class Struggle in Cultural Formation in Contemporary Times: A Focus on the Theoretical Importance of Antonio Gramsci and the Organic Intellectualism of Russell Brand.

Double gamers: Academics between fields (2016)
Journal Article
Costa, C. (2016). Double gamers: Academics between fields. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 37(7), 993-1013. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2014.982861

© 2014 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The field of academia is frequently associated with traditional norms that aim to regulate scholarly activity, especially research. The social web, as another field, is often viewed as c... Read More about Double gamers: Academics between fields.

The (im)possibility of the intellectual worker inside the neoliberal university (2016)
Journal Article
Banfield, G., Raduntz, H., & Maisuria, A. (2016). The (im)possibility of the intellectual worker inside the neoliberal university. Educação & Formação, 1(3), 3-19. https://doi.org/10.25053/edufor.v1i3.1974

The provocation and point of this paper is that universities of the North during the era of neoliberalism of have been sucked of their human life-giving capacities. What remains are closed doors and bare walls. Lest we give the impression of a hopele... Read More about The (im)possibility of the intellectual worker inside the neoliberal university.

The isolation of collaboration: An exploration of the nature and extent of collaborative practice in a converter academy (2016)
Thesis
Bell, A. The isolation of collaboration: An exploration of the nature and extent of collaborative practice in a converter academy. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/909467

Policies promoting collaboration have been introduced to counteract the policies of autonomy and school Marketisation. This thesis sets out to find the implications and extent of practitioner collaborative practice within a converter academy in Engla... Read More about The isolation of collaboration: An exploration of the nature and extent of collaborative practice in a converter academy.

'Don't ride on that crocodile!': Dahl and the cautionary Tale (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Screech, B. (2016, June). 'Don't ride on that crocodile!': Dahl and the cautionary Tale. Presented at Roald Dahl Centenary Cardiff Conference, Cardiff, Wales

This paper examined echoes of the cautionary tale in both Dahl's fiction & non-fiction.

Individual and Social Influences on Students’ Attitudes to Debt: a Cross-National Path Analysis Using Data from England and New Zealand (2016)
Journal Article
Harrison, N., & Agnew, S. (2016). Individual and Social Influences on Students’ Attitudes to Debt: a Cross-National Path Analysis Using Data from England and New Zealand. Higher Education Quarterly, 70(4), 332-353. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12094

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This study examines the construction of debt attitudes among 439 first-year undergraduates in England and New Zealand. It works from a conceptual model that predicts that attitudes will be partly determined by a range... Read More about Individual and Social Influences on Students’ Attitudes to Debt: a Cross-National Path Analysis Using Data from England and New Zealand.

‘Funny games’: Deviant play in contemporary British children’s fiction (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Screech, B. (2016, May). ‘Funny games’: Deviant play in contemporary British children’s fiction. Presented at The Child and the Book: Children's Literature and Play, Wroclaw, Poland

This paper explored representations of 'deviant play' in selected recent children's books.

Digital scholarship: Recognizing new practices in academia (2016)
Book Chapter
Costa, C., & Murphy, M. (2016). Digital scholarship: Recognizing new practices in academia. In M. Peters (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_259-1

More often than not, novelty is met with suspicion. The status of “newness” is very rarely given a particularly high value not only because of the unfamiliarity it carries but also because of the threat it poses to established norms. Digital technolo... Read More about Digital scholarship: Recognizing new practices in academia.

Students’ and their parents’ experiences of inclusion in mainstream schools. What does inclusion mean for parents with children that have special educational needs and what does it mean for the children themselves in today’s mainstream schooling system? (2016)
Thesis
What does inclusion mean for parents with children that have special educational needs and what does it mean for the children themselves in today’s mainstream schooling system?. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/914966

This thesis examines experiences and critical incidents that parents and their children with special educational needs encountered in mainstream school settings. Research was carried out within the methodological framework of autoethnography, re... Read More about Students’ and their parents’ experiences of inclusion in mainstream schools. What does inclusion mean for parents with children that have special educational needs and what does it mean for the children themselves in today’s mainstream schooling system?.