Rachel Williams' Outputs (9)

There's an app for that! Utilising technology to gamify student engagement (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

What can video games like Pokémon teach us about improving student engagement? In this session you will learn how to utilise underexplored features of Instagram and Blackboard to gamify the student experience and ultimately increase engagement. These... Read More about There's an app for that! Utilising technology to gamify student engagement.

Gamifying the virtual learning environment: A case study (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Dynamic Conversations: Do parasocial relationships in online learning communities reinforce or reduce power imbalances between staff and students? (2022)
Digital Artefact

From our first edition of Dynamic Conversations: Learning Communities, Neil Sutherland CMBE and Rachel Williams of Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, explore how parasocial relationships in online learning communities affect... Read More about Dynamic Conversations: Do parasocial relationships in online learning communities reinforce or reduce power imbalances between staff and students?.

Dynamic conversations: Utilising social media to create a sense of community (2021)
Digital Artefact

Dynamic conversations edition 1: Learning communities

From our first edition of Dynamic Conversations: Learning Communities, Neil Sutherland CMBE and Rachel Williams of Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, explore how social... Read More about Dynamic conversations: Utilising social media to create a sense of community.

"I feel like I am part of a community": Creating social presence at a programme level through Facebook groups (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this presentation we reflect on the importance of creating social presence at a programme level, specifically in virtual environments. Briefly defined, social presence is the degree to which participants feel like they feel a part of, and know oth... Read More about "I feel like I am part of a community": Creating social presence at a programme level through Facebook groups.

Leading to achieve social change: An interview with Ruth Hunt, former Chief Executive Officer of Stonewall (2020)
Journal Article

In this interview Ruth Hunt, former CEO of the lesbian, gay, bi and trans equality charity Stonewall and now crossbench peer at the House of Lords, discusses her approach to leadership for social change. She considers the changing context of LGBT rig... Read More about Leading to achieve social change: An interview with Ruth Hunt, former Chief Executive Officer of Stonewall.

Bittersweet charity: An investigation into the relationship between big pharma, antidepressants and mental health charities in the UK (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper explores the relationship between mental health charities and pharmaceutical companies in the UK. Ultimately concluding that, whilst historically antidepressant manufactures have used charities to promote their marketing messages, they now... Read More about Bittersweet charity: An investigation into the relationship between big pharma, antidepressants and mental health charities in the UK.

What a tangled web we weave? An investigation into the collaboration of healthcare professionals and ‘Big Pharma' (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

On the 30th June 2016, The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) published a list on their website titled ‘Disclosure UK’. The list contains information on payments received by HCPs from pharmaceutical companies. With 50,2083 entr... Read More about What a tangled web we weave? An investigation into the collaboration of healthcare professionals and ‘Big Pharma'.

Melancholy and the infinite treatments: An investigative study into the marketing of antidepressants
Thesis

In the 1990s the estimated prevalence of depression was two thousand times higher than in the 1960s (Leader 2008a; 2013). This astronomical rise in depression corresponded with the launch of blockbuster antidepressants released in the late 1980s: sel... Read More about Melancholy and the infinite treatments: An investigative study into the marketing of antidepressants.