All Outputs (3)

Gamifying the virtual learning environment: A case study (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Williams, R., & Tarrabain, C. (2022, May). Gamifying the virtual learning environment: A case study. Presented at LTSE (Learning Teaching Student Experience), 2022, Belfast

This presentation aims to contribute to deeper understandings of how gamification has been practically used on a first-year undergraduate module to encourage student engagement and participation beyond asynchronous sessions. Online innovations have b... Read More about Gamifying the virtual learning environment: A case study.

Crafting identities in insecure employment: An ethnographic exploration of the experiences of temporary agency workers (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Tarrabain, C. (2016, September). Crafting identities in insecure employment: An ethnographic exploration of the experiences of temporary agency workers. Paper presented at British Academy of Management Conference 2016, Newcastle University, England

This paper explores the experiences of uncertainty and insecurity that migrant agency workers in relation to their work and socio-cultural context taking a specific interest in how these experiences are informed by and inform their self-understanding... Read More about Crafting identities in insecure employment: An ethnographic exploration of the experiences of temporary agency workers.

Crafting the margins: Promoting dis-identification in temporary agency work
Presentation / Conference
Tarrabain, C. Crafting the margins: Promoting dis-identification in temporary agency work

Contemporary work has seen the proliferation of temporary forms of employment where short-termism and indeterminacy of labour is valued over long-term organisational commitment. The rise of flexibility has brought about new questions which challenge... Read More about Crafting the margins: Promoting dis-identification in temporary agency work.