Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (338)

Oundle, Northamptonshire (2014)
Journal Article

The name of Oundle, noted earliest as the death-place of St Wilfrid and later of St Cett, and as the burial-place of archbishop Wulfstan of York, has not received a fully satisfactory explanation, despite a wealth of early mentions.

Social network innovation in the Internet’s global coffee houses: designing a mobile Help Seeking tool in Learning Layers (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, © 2014 International Council for Educational Media. In this paper, we argue that there is much that we can learn from the past as we explore the issues raised when designing innovative social media and mobile technologies for learning. Like t... Read More about Social network innovation in the Internet’s global coffee houses: designing a mobile Help Seeking tool in Learning Layers.

The effect of a bilingual learning mode on the establishment of lexical semantic representations in the L2 (2014)
Journal Article

Deliberate vocabulary learning is common in the L2, however, questions remain about most efficient and effective forms of this learning approach. Bilingual models of L2 word learning and processing can be used to make predictions about outcomes of le... Read More about The effect of a bilingual learning mode on the establishment of lexical semantic representations in the L2.

Modelling the demand for higher education by local authority area in England using academic, economic and social data (2013)
Journal Article

Managing the demand for higher education has been a major concern of successive UK governments over the last 30 years. While initially they sought to increase demand, latterly the emphasis has been on widening participation to include demographic gro... Read More about Modelling the demand for higher education by local authority area in England using academic, economic and social data.

Wirral revisited (2013)
Journal Article

This article has two goals. The first is to document fully the recurrent English place-name Wirral and a number of similar ones which can be shown, in some cases definitely, in others probably or possibly, to have the same origin, as well as others w... Read More about Wirral revisited.

The Gender of News and News of Gender: A Study of Sex, Politics, and Press Coverage of the 2010 British General Election (2013)
Journal Article

In the months leading up to the 2010 British General Election, pundits were claiming that women would be specifically targeted by all political parties. However, this focus never materialized and it was just more business as usual but with the added... Read More about The Gender of News and News of Gender: A Study of Sex, Politics, and Press Coverage of the 2010 British General Election.

The importance of internal conversations and reflexivity for work-based students in higher education: Valuing contextual continuity and 'giving something back' (2012)
Journal Article

This paper utilises the theories of Archer to explore the impact of student 'internal conversations' upon the development of reflexive approaches employed by work-based students (WBS). The study informing this paper draws on the voices of a range of... Read More about The importance of internal conversations and reflexivity for work-based students in higher education: Valuing contextual continuity and 'giving something back'.