Outputs (147)

Evaluating a workforce development programme: Bringing public health into architecture education in England (2020)
Journal Article

Architects can play a key role in the wider public health workforce, in ensuring building and urban design is health promoting. However, there is no requirement to teach health by architectural accreditation bodies across Europe. To evaluate the long... Read More about Evaluating a workforce development programme: Bringing public health into architecture education in England.

Vocabulary Development (2020)
Book Chapter

Approaches to supporting the development of vocabulary learning in primary classrooms

The view from the deck - exploring lecturers’ and middle managers’ perceptions of English FE sector professional development: A case study evaluation (2020)
Thesis

The focus of this research was to investigate both how further education (FE) lecturers and middle managers engage in professional development and what they perceive to constitute effective professional development. This focus represents an area of s... Read More about The view from the deck - exploring lecturers’ and middle managers’ perceptions of English FE sector professional development: A case study evaluation.

The assessment has become the curriculum: Teachers’ views on the Phonics Screening Check in England (2020)
Journal Article

The Phonics Screening Check (PSC) was introduced in England in 2012 for Year 1 children (aged 5 and 6). There have been criticisms of the check in relation to its reliability and appropriateness as an assessment for early reading, although advocates... Read More about The assessment has become the curriculum: Teachers’ views on the Phonics Screening Check in England.

Edible insects: Applying Bakhtin’s carnivalesque to understand how education practices can help transform young people’s eating habits (2020)
Journal Article

Western European populations are being encouraged to reconsider their diets in light of population growth and the associated intensification of farming systems. In addition, health concerns associated with diets high in sugar, salt and saturated fat... Read More about Edible insects: Applying Bakhtin’s carnivalesque to understand how education practices can help transform young people’s eating habits.

In a man’s world: The experiences of women in academic employment in Nigerian universities (2020)
Thesis

Despite the fact that women are increasingly embracing academic opportunities, evidence suggest that not only are women numerically underrepresented in academic employment, their progress is often slowed down and stifled by a range of barriers and ch... Read More about In a man’s world: The experiences of women in academic employment in Nigerian universities.

Le tecnologie digitali 3d per la conservazione e la conoscenza del patrimonio culturale (2019)
Book Chapter

This chapter focuses on 3d technology and Cultural Heritage.
It analyzes 3d technology such as CNC machines and additive processes: the 3d printers.
Solid printing in museums/3d printing and geomatics for replicas validation.

Liquid loss: Learning to mourn our companion species and landscapes (2019)
Journal Article

“The world tells a big story: living arrangements that took millions of years to put into place are being undone in the blink of an eye.”[1]

In 2015, a team of biologists, zoologists and ecologists[2] published a paper that examined whether human... Read More about Liquid loss: Learning to mourn our companion species and landscapes.

Creativity within the foundation phase curriculum: A risky business? (2019)
Journal Article

Whilst creative behaviours are viewed as twenty-first century competencies [Davies, L.M., L.D. Newton, and D.P. Newton. 2017. “Creativity As a Twenty-First-Century Competence: An Exploratory Study of Provision and Reality.” Education 3–13, 879–891.],... Read More about Creativity within the foundation phase curriculum: A risky business?.

The roles of laughter in qualitative research interviews (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

‘‘Get it done’ is one of the most used sentences by my Dad (laughs)
‘Get it done, get it done babes, just got to get it done’. (both laugh)’

This session explores the roles that laughter can play in qualitative interviewing. The theme arises fro... Read More about The roles of laughter in qualitative research interviews.

Academic Leadership in Higher Education - Initial research findings (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Introduction
The aim of this research was to gain a deeper understanding of the perceptions of key stakeholders in relation to the current extent of Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) in leadership roles within academia. The researchers undertook an... Read More about Academic Leadership in Higher Education - Initial research findings.

Creative collaboration: A study of teachers transforming arts-based methods into activities to support children developing English as an Additional Language in schools in England (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Alternative spaces of failure. Disabled ‘bad boys’ in alternative further education provision (2019)
Journal Article

This article draws from an ethnographic study of a group of school-aged disabled white working-class and self-proclaimed ‘bad boys’ in one Alternative Provision (AP) in an English further education college. These young disabled students’ disabilities... Read More about Alternative spaces of failure. Disabled ‘bad boys’ in alternative further education provision.

Enhancing the learning process of people with special needs using wearables and Artificial Intelligence (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Wearables are widely used in monitoring various physical activities and biological signals of an individual to improve their current lifestyle. This research proposes a novel way to enhance the learning of individuals with special needs, by collectin... Read More about Enhancing the learning process of people with special needs using wearables and Artificial Intelligence.

Quality history education in the 21st century: Principles and guidelines (2018)
Report

History education has an important role to play in confronting the current political, cultural and social challenges facing Europe; in particular, those posed by the increasingly diverse nature of societies, the integration of migrants and refugees i... Read More about Quality history education in the 21st century: Principles and guidelines.

Educating for diversity and democracy: Teaching history in contemporary Europe (2018)
Report

This policy and practice report and paper was co-authored by a a small team working for the History Education unit of the Council of Europe and was based on a series of seminars for History educators across Europe.
The research process was based on... Read More about Educating for diversity and democracy: Teaching history in contemporary Europe.

What 'gives life' to critical pedagogy in the lifelong learning sector? Some early findings (2018)
Journal Article

Building information management (BIM) education in the Dominican Republic: An empirical study (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Building Information Management (BIM) education is par excellence the best solution to overcome the lack of BIM knowledge and BIM skilled professionals that affect the implementation of BIM in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) indu... Read More about Building information management (BIM) education in the Dominican Republic: An empirical study.

Exploring the social construction of philosophical assumptions: the methodological journeys of doctoral researchers in the social sciences (2017)
Thesis

Existing information regarding methodological journeys is predominantly restricted to autobiographical accounts, which may limit understanding, particularly in relation to the development, and significance, of methodological consciousness. This thesi... Read More about Exploring the social construction of philosophical assumptions: the methodological journeys of doctoral researchers in the social sciences.

Practice-based Learning: A Safe Place to Make Mistakes. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution