Outputs (38)

Connecting people and planet through reading for pleasure (2025)
Book Chapter

This chapter reflects on research using MG Leonard’s Beetle Boy to consider how reading for pleasure has the potential to impact upon social and environmental action. Research with children and teachers revealed how reading the book supported them to... Read More about Connecting people and planet through reading for pleasure.

Made for a Trade? Negotiating working-class masculinity to and through spaces of Higher Education (2024)
Book Chapter

The following chapter explores issues related to the underrepresentation of young working-class males in higher education (HE). The lack of working-class men in HE, in comparison to other social groups, has been a regular feature of the media and pol... Read More about Made for a Trade? Negotiating working-class masculinity to and through spaces of Higher Education.

Voices from the staffroom: Impacts of further education policy on CPD in the sector (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter discusses the findings of doctoral research into further education lecturers' and middle managers' perceptions of how Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in the sector is planned and implemented. Thematic analysis revealed that man... Read More about Voices from the staffroom: Impacts of further education policy on CPD in the sector.

From translanguaging to transknowledging: Exploring new epistemological and linguistic approaches in higher education research (2023)
Book Chapter

In this quotation, Heugh critiques literature produced in the Global North which makes claims to promoting social justice while making invisible the sources of knowledge and languages to communicate about those ideas by people in the Global South. Th... Read More about From translanguaging to transknowledging: Exploring new epistemological and linguistic approaches in higher education research.

Vocabulary development (2023)
Book Chapter

The chapter focuses on the importance of vocabulary knowledge in both the teaching and learning of reading and writing. It provides the theory that underpins practice, curriculum links, case studies and practical ideas for teaching.
The book is a g... Read More about Vocabulary development.

Playful learning around the world (2021)
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The go-to textbook for everything you need to know about play!

Covering ages 0-8, this book explores what play is, why it matters and where and how play happens. Taking you from start to finish on your course, it helps you:

Think critically... Read More about Playful learning around the world.

Vocabulary Development (2020)
Book Chapter

Approaches to supporting the development of vocabulary learning in primary classrooms

Researching multilingually in applied linguistics (2019)
Book Chapter

Researching multilingually is an umbrella term used (in e.g. Holmes et al. 2013) which seeks to identify and highlight the decision-making researchers engage in regarding language in the many stages of their research processes. In applied linguistics... Read More about Researching multilingually in applied linguistics.

What shapes everyday translanguaging? Insights from a global mental health project in Northern Uganda (2018)
Book Chapter

This chapter contributes to ongoing explorations of translanguaging in everyday contexts, acknowledges the origins of the concept in multilingual educational contexts, and notes how researchers have also applied the concept to multilingual interactio... Read More about What shapes everyday translanguaging? Insights from a global mental health project in Northern Uganda.

Assisting people with Autism Spectrum Disorder through technology (2018)
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This chapter seeks to provide a review and overview of technology that has been used to support autistic people. The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of technology used by autistic groups contextually and historically. Materials covere... Read More about Assisting people with Autism Spectrum Disorder through technology.

Degrees of injustice: Social class inequalities in University admissions, experiences and outcomes (2018)
Book Chapter

An overview of the edited collection

Part III – Contexts, people and practices (2018)
Book Chapter

An overview of the third section of the edited handbook

Gendered and classed graduate transitions to work: How the unequal playing field is constructed, maintained and experienced (2018)
Book Chapter

A recent Institute of Fiscal Studies report (Crawford and Vignoles, 2014) of 200,000 graduates showed those who had attended independent schools on average earned 18% more than peers from state schools 3.5 years after university. Even for graduates f... Read More about Gendered and classed graduate transitions to work: How the unequal playing field is constructed, maintained and experienced.

From linguistic preparation to developing a translingual orientation – possible implications of plurilingualism for researcher education (2018)
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A chapter discussing what researchers need to know about linguistic diversity before engaging in their research.

Personalising learning in geography (2017)
Book Chapter

Examination of new Labour's concept of personalistaion; its application to education as personalised learning as interpreted in practice in geography teaching n secondary schools in the UK.

Numeracy (2017)
Book Chapter

Numeracy in secondary school geography.

Chapter 3 Vocabulary Development (2017)
Book Chapter

Approaches to supporting the development of vocabulary learning in primary classrooms

Reflexive ethnographic research practice in multilingual contexts (2016)
Book Chapter

In this chapter we critically review the potential contribution of taking a linguistic ethnographic approach to research in service provision in health and education in multilingual settings.

How to research multilingually: Possibilities and complexities (2016)
Book Chapter

Writing a research proposal (2015)
Book Chapter

This chapter is aimed at those new to research at Masters level with specific reference to geography teachers and those researching in the field of geography education.
It describes the importance of this crucial stage in the research process and pr... Read More about Writing a research proposal.