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Supporting preservice teachers to become informed teachers of reading through one-to-one tutoring in an English initial teacher education setting (2021)
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Carter, J. (in press). Supporting preservice teachers to become informed teachers of reading through one-to-one tutoring in an English initial teacher education setting. Education 3-13, https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2021.1985578

Training preservice teachers as teachers of reading is a complex task, as is reading itself. Preservice teachers need to understand the theory that underpins practice; the cognitive skills and knowledge required to read and the contextual factors tha... Read More about Supporting preservice teachers to become informed teachers of reading through one-to-one tutoring in an English initial teacher education setting.

Promoting water efficiency and hydrocitizenship in young people’s learning about drought risk in a temperate maritime country (2021)
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Jones, V., Whitehouse, S., McEwen, L., Williams, S., & Gorell Barnes, L. (2021). Promoting water efficiency and hydrocitizenship in young people’s learning about drought risk in a temperate maritime country. Water, 13(18), Article 2599. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13182599

Engaging young citizens with drought risk and positive water behaviours is essential in domestic water demand management within the wider climate crisis. This paper evaluates a new research-informed, picture book—‘DRY: The Diary of a Water Superhero’... Read More about Promoting water efficiency and hydrocitizenship in young people’s learning about drought risk in a temperate maritime country.

An integrated systems approach to food (2021)
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Jones, V., Jones, M., & Ruge, D. (2021). An integrated systems approach to food. Primary Geography, Autumn 2021(106), 12-13

This paper explores how primary geography teachers can situate themselves in an integrated food system approach. It highlights critical issues relating to food and education and reflects on how other schools in the UK, Denmark and Czech Republic are... Read More about An integrated systems approach to food.

Pedagogies of discomfort and care: Balancing critical tensions in delivering gender-related violence training to youth practitioners (2021)
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Cullen, F., & Whelan, M. (2021). Pedagogies of discomfort and care: Balancing critical tensions in delivering gender-related violence training to youth practitioners. Education Sciences, 11(9), Article 562. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11090562

This reflective paper explores the emotions, ethics, and challenges of facilitating training for youth practitioners to tackle gender-related violence (GRV). This paper draws on insights from a training intervention that emerged from an EU-funded fem... Read More about Pedagogies of discomfort and care: Balancing critical tensions in delivering gender-related violence training to youth practitioners.

Methodological becoming: Doctoral students’ perceptions of their methodological journeys (2021)
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Clark, T., & Clark, T. (2022). Methodological becoming: Doctoral students’ perceptions of their methodological journeys. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 13(1), 36-53. https://doi.org/10.1108/SGPE-12-2020-0076

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate and illustrate the potential relationships between doctoral students’ life histories and educational experiences and their methodological understanding and assumptions. Design/methodology/approach:... Read More about Methodological becoming: Doctoral students’ perceptions of their methodological journeys.

Bringing the critical into doctoral supervision: What can we learn from debates about epistemic justice and the languaging of research? (2021)
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Fay, R., Andrews, J., Huang, Z. M., & White, R. (2021). Bringing the critical into doctoral supervision: What can we learn from debates about epistemic justice and the languaging of research?. Journal of Praxis in Higher Education, 3(2), 104-127. https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc109

In this article, we discuss how, as supervisors in largely Anglophone university contexts in England, we are trying to develop supervisory practices informed by the discussions of epistemic (in)justice and the languaging of research. Having rehearsed... Read More about Bringing the critical into doctoral supervision: What can we learn from debates about epistemic justice and the languaging of research?.

Exploring young people’s experience of ending active cancer treatment: When the “little cancer treatment bubble” pops (2021)
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Lea, S., Martins, A., Cable, M., Fern, L. A., Morgan, S., Soanes, L., …Taylor, R. M. (2021). Exploring young people’s experience of ending active cancer treatment: When the “little cancer treatment bubble” pops. Cancer Nursing, 44(4), 288-294. https://doi.org/10.1097/NCC.0000000000000798

Background The end of active cancer treatment is described as a stressful period for adolescents and young adults (AYAs). However, research evidence describing the experience of AYAs as they transition from active treatment into follow-up care is sca... Read More about Exploring young people’s experience of ending active cancer treatment: When the “little cancer treatment bubble” pops.

Difference as an essential teacher in a Them-Us international context: Pre-service teachers’ reflections on a university township teaching project (2021)
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Carter, J., Knight, B., & Vickers-Hulse, K. (2023). Difference as an essential teacher in a Them-Us international context: Pre-service teachers’ reflections on a university township teaching project. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 31(3), 459-476. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2021.1923559

This article explores data from a group of British pre-service teachers (PST) following a teaching programme in South Africa. Their reflections are analysed in relation to assertions that such intercultural programmes do little to change hegemonic be... Read More about Difference as an essential teacher in a Them-Us international context: Pre-service teachers’ reflections on a university township teaching project.

Integrating food into the curriculum (2021)
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Jones, V., Jones, M., & Ruge, D. (2021). Integrating food into the curriculum. Primary Science, 5

This article explores how integrating food as a whole school approach can support learning and teaching in primary science. It reflects on a two year, international study with educational settings in the UK, Denmark and Czech Republic.

Engineering science education: The impact of a paired peer approach on subject knowledge confidence and self-efficacy levels of student teachers (2021)
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Lewis, F., Edmonds, J., & Fogg-Rogers, L. (2021). Engineering science education: The impact of a paired peer approach on subject knowledge confidence and self-efficacy levels of student teachers. International Journal of Science Education, 43(5), 793-822. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2021.1887544

Teacher performance has been linked with both self-efficacy and subject knowledge confidence suggesting that it is important to address these aspects within initial teacher training programmes. This study investigated the development of pre-service t... Read More about Engineering science education: The impact of a paired peer approach on subject knowledge confidence and self-efficacy levels of student teachers.

‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non-fiction in the home (2020)
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Green, D. P., Rose, M., Bevan, C., Farmer, H., Cater, K., & Stanton Fraser, D. (2021). ‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non-fiction in the home. Convergence, 27(3), 805-829. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856520979966

Consumer virtual reality (VR) headsets (e.g. Oculus Go) have brought VR non-fiction (VRNF) within reach of at-home audiences. However, despite increase in VR hardware sales and enthusiasm for the platform among niche audiences at festivals, mainstrea... Read More about ‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non-fiction in the home.

Understanding students’ critical thinking ability: A comparative case of Chinese and British undergraduates (2020)
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Lianqing, H., Adelopo, I., & Last, K. (2020). Understanding students’ critical thinking ability: A comparative case of Chinese and British undergraduates. New Educational Review, 61, 133-143. https://doi.org/10.15804/tner.2020.61.3.11

The purpose of this study was to investigate to what extent the language factor contributes to students’ critical thinking abilities. The critical thinking (CT) skills and abilities of final year undergraduate students studying on the same program we... Read More about Understanding students’ critical thinking ability: A comparative case of Chinese and British undergraduates.

Stories of family in working‐class graduates’ early careers (2020)
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Christie, F., & Burke, C. (2021). Stories of family in working‐class graduates’ early careers. British Educational Research Journal, 47(1), 85-104. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3689

How do young graduates view the role of immediate families in influencing/supporting them as they start their working lives and how do those reflections affect how they think of themselves as graduates? Social, political and economic changes have led... Read More about Stories of family in working‐class graduates’ early careers.

Good enough to eat or just to hunt? Edible insects, the Sustainable Development Goals and the primary classroom (2020)
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Jones, V. (2020). Good enough to eat or just to hunt? Edible insects, the Sustainable Development Goals and the primary classroom. Primary Science, 21-23

This article considers how primary science curriculum planning can be framed around the Sustainable Development Goals (2015). As a case study it presents how learning about insects on a bug hunt in the playground can quickly transform into more cont... Read More about Good enough to eat or just to hunt? Edible insects, the Sustainable Development Goals and the primary classroom.

The possibility and importance of immersive technologies during COVID-19 for autistic people (2020)
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Newbutt, N., Schmidt, M. M., Riva, G., & Schmidt, C. (2020). The possibility and importance of immersive technologies during COVID-19 for autistic people. Journal of Enabling Technologies, 14(3), 187-199. https://doi.org/10.1108/JET-07-2020-0028

© 2020, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify three key areas where autistic people may find themselves impacted through COVID-19, namely, education; employment; and anxiety. Design/methodology/approach: This p... Read More about The possibility and importance of immersive technologies during COVID-19 for autistic people.

Bug Burgers? The climate emergency and eating insects (2020)
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Jones, V. (2020). Bug Burgers? The climate emergency and eating insects. Primary Geography, 103(Autumn), 20-21

Here I outline how a four-stage approach framed classroom discussion around the global food crisis and its associated socio-economic and environmental impacts. In the discussion pupils considered whether they would be prepared to eat insects rather t... Read More about Bug Burgers? The climate emergency and eating insects.

Addressing unrealistic optimism with counterfactual reasoning in an employability module in higher education (2020)
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Hanson, J., & Burke, C. (2021). Addressing unrealistic optimism with counterfactual reasoning in an employability module in higher education. Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 13(3), 830-848. https://doi.org/10.1108/JARHE-02-2019-0047

Purpose: The study aimed to explore the effect of second year business students engaging in counterfactual reasoning on their unrealistic optimism regarding attainment on an employability module. Design/methodology/approach: Using an experimental des... Read More about Addressing unrealistic optimism with counterfactual reasoning in an employability module in higher education.

The support and information needs of adolescents and young adults with cancer when active treatment ends (2020)
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Lea, S., Martins, A., Fern, L. A., Bassett, M., Cable, M., Doig, G., …Taylor, R. M. (2020). The support and information needs of adolescents and young adults with cancer when active treatment ends. BMC Cancer, 20(1), Article 697. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-020-07197-2

Background: The end of active treatment is a period of high stress for young people with cancer, but limited literature exists about their information and support needs during this phase. This study aimed to understand the needs of young people with... Read More about The support and information needs of adolescents and young adults with cancer when active treatment ends.

Introducing edible insects into Welsh school canteens (2020)
Journal Article
Jones, V. (2020). Introducing edible insects into Welsh school canteens. Antenna -London- Royal Entomological Society-, 44(2),

Insects as food is not a new idea. In the Old Testament’s book of Leviticus a list of permissible foods is given; insects including, locusts, crickets, and grasshoppers are included. Earlier still, the Romans and Greeks were known to dine on beetle l... Read More about Introducing edible insects into Welsh school canteens.