Outputs (11)

ENGINEER: Evaluation and analysis of the project impact (2013)
Report

An evaluation report analysing the impact of the EU funded ENGINEER project, intended to design and implement materials to promote engineering in primary schools across Europe through science and technology. The report examines impact on teaching and... Read More about ENGINEER: Evaluation and analysis of the project impact.

"It's a very difficult question isn't it?" Researcher, interpreter and research participant negotiating meanings in an education research interview (2013)
Journal Article

Writers within Applied Linguistics and beyond have argued for research papers using interview methods to acknowledge all participants' contributions to that data for example, Kvale and Brinkmann, and Mann. When research encounters involve participant... Read More about "It's a very difficult question isn't it?" Researcher, interpreter and research participant negotiating meanings in an education research interview.

Researching multilingually: New theoretical and methodological directions (2013)
Journal Article

This paper reports findings from an AHRC-funded project into the use of more than one language in research projects. Using 35 seminar presentations and 25 researcher profiles, we investigated how researchers from differing disciplines became aware of... Read More about Researching multilingually: New theoretical and methodological directions.

Higher education, social class and the mobilisation of capitals: recognising and playing the game (2013)
Journal Article

Strategies employed by middle-class families to ensure successful educational outcomes for their children have long been the focus of theoretical and empirical analysis in the United Kingdom and beyond. In austerity England, the issue of middle-class... Read More about Higher education, social class and the mobilisation of capitals: recognising and playing the game.

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.

Parents, partners and peers: Bearing the hidden costs of lifelong learning (2013)
Book Chapter

It’s a RAP? Retention, attainment and progression (2013)
Journal Article

The accuracy of students' predictions of their GCSE grades (2013)
Journal Article

The paper reports a study that investigated the relationship between students' self-predicted and actual General Certificate of Secondary Education results in order to establish the extent of over- and under-prediction and whether this varies by subj... Read More about The accuracy of students' predictions of their GCSE grades.

Participation In Higher Education: Aspirations, Attainment And Social Background (2013)
Journal Article

The recent report of the Milburn Review into Social Mobility highlights the under-representation of young people from lower socio-economic groups in higher education and encourages universities and others to act to remedy this situation as a contribu... Read More about Participation In Higher Education: Aspirations, Attainment And Social Background.

Situated learning in accident investigation: A virtual world simulation case study (2013)
Journal Article

Educators have increasingly been drawn to virtual worlds to investigate their potential for enhancing teaching and learning. This case study describes, discusses and evaluates the experiences of postgraduate environmental health students undertaking... Read More about Situated learning in accident investigation: A virtual world simulation case study.

The Paired Peers project report (2013)
Report

Paired Peers is three-year qualitative longitudinal project following a cohort of students drawn from two universities in the same English city, the University of Bristol (UoB) and the University of the West of England (UWE), through three years of t... Read More about The Paired Peers project report.