Engineering science education: The impact of a paired peer approach on subject knowledge confidence and self-efficacy levels of student teachers. (2021)
Journal Article
Lewis, F., Juliet-Edmonds, , & Rogers, L. (in press). Engineering science education: The impact of a paired peer approach on subject knowledge confidence and self-efficacy levels of student teachers. International Journal of Science Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2021.1887544

Teacher performance has been linked with both self-efficacy and subject knowledge confidence suggesting that it is important to address these aspects within initial teacher training programmes. This study investigated the development of pre-service t... Read More about Engineering science education: The impact of a paired peer approach on subject knowledge confidence and self-efficacy levels of student teachers..

European healthy pupils and skilled educators via integrated school food systems: Final report (2021)
Report
Jones, M., Ruge, D., Rasmus Puck, M., & Jones, V. (2021). European healthy pupils and skilled educators via integrated school food systems: Final report. European Commission. Erasmus Plus

Good enough to eat or just to hunt? Edible insects, the Sustainable Development Goals and the primary classroom (2020)
Journal Article
Jones, V. (2020). Good enough to eat or just to hunt? Edible insects, the Sustainable Development Goals and the primary classroom. Primary Science, 21-23

This article considers how primary science curriculum planning can be framed around the Sustainable Development Goals (2015). As a case study it presents how learning about insects on a bug hunt in the playground can quickly transform into more cont... Read More about Good enough to eat or just to hunt? Edible insects, the Sustainable Development Goals and the primary classroom.

The possibility and importance of immersive technologies during COVID-19 for autistic people (2020)
Journal Article
Newbutt, N., Schmidt, M. M., Riva, G., & Schmidt, C. (2020). The possibility and importance of immersive technologies during COVID-19 for autistic people. Journal of Enabling Technologies, 14(3), 187-199. https://doi.org/10.1108/JET-07-2020-0028

© 2020, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify three key areas where autistic people may find themselves impacted through COVID-19, namely, education; employment; and anxiety. Design/methodology/approach: This p... Read More about The possibility and importance of immersive technologies during COVID-19 for autistic people.

Bug Burgers? The climate emergency and eating insects (2020)
Journal Article
Jones, V. (2020). Bug Burgers? The climate emergency and eating insects. Primary Geography, 103(Autumn), 20-21

Here I outline how a four-stage approach framed classroom discussion around the global food crisis and its associated socio-economic and environmental impacts. In the discussion pupils considered whether they would be prepared to eat insects rather t... Read More about Bug Burgers? The climate emergency and eating insects.

Addressing unrealistic optimism with counterfactual reasoning in an employability module in higher education (2020)
Journal Article
Hanson, J., & Burke, C. (in press). Addressing unrealistic optimism with counterfactual reasoning in an employability module in higher education. Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1108/JARHE-02-2019-0047

Purpose: The study aimed to explore the effect of second year business students engaging in counterfactual reasoning on their unrealistic optimism regarding attainment on an employability module. Design/methodology/approach: Using an experimental des... Read More about Addressing unrealistic optimism with counterfactual reasoning in an employability module in higher education.

Introducing edible insects into Welsh school canteens (2020)
Journal Article
Jones, V. (2020). Introducing edible insects into Welsh school canteens. Antenna -London- Royal Entomological Society-, 44(2),

Assisting people with Autism Spectrum Disorder through technology (2020)
Book Chapter
Newbutt, N. (2018). Assisting people with Autism Spectrum Disorder through technology. In A. Tatnall (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies (1-35). Switzerland: Springer

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.

‘Just don’t tell them what’s in it’: Ethics, edible insects and sustainable food choice in schools (2020)
Journal Article
Jones, V. (in press). ‘Just don’t tell them what’s in it’: Ethics, edible insects and sustainable food choice in schools. British Educational Research Journal, 46(4), 894-908. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3655

Supporting young people with global crises mitigation strategies is essential, yet loaded with ethical dilemmas for the educator. This study explores whether young people will make ethical decisions regarding the sustainability of food choice in scho... Read More about ‘Just don’t tell them what’s in it’: Ethics, edible insects and sustainable food choice in schools.

Lifelong education, social inequality and the COVID-19 health pandemic (2020)
Journal Article
Waller, R., Hodge, S., Holford, J., Milana, M., & Webb, S. (2020). Lifelong education, social inequality and the COVID-19 health pandemic. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 39(3), 243-246. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2020.1790267

How does student activism drive cultural campus change in the UK and US regarding sexual violence on campus? (2020)
Journal Article
Bovill, H., Mcmahon, S., Demers, J., Banyard, V., Carrasco, V., & Keep, L. (in press). How does student activism drive cultural campus change in the UK and US regarding sexual violence on campus?. Critical Social Policy, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018320913967

Using policy frameworks and author expertise to identify relevant literature, four academics and two student-activist-authors, critically review literature upon student activist responses to sexual violence on campus. We conclude, student activism is... Read More about How does student activism drive cultural campus change in the UK and US regarding sexual violence on campus?.

Ignorance is not bliss: A UK study of sexual and domestic abuse awareness on campus, and correlations with confidence and positive action in a bystander program (2020)
Journal Article
Bovill, H., & White, P. (in press). Ignorance is not bliss: A UK study of sexual and domestic abuse awareness on campus, and correlations with confidence and positive action in a bystander program. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520916267

This article reports on a U.K. research study encompassing two surveys which used evidence-based scales of awareness, confidence to intervene, and intervention opportunities and action regarding sexual and domestic abuse on campus. They were sent to... Read More about Ignorance is not bliss: A UK study of sexual and domestic abuse awareness on campus, and correlations with confidence and positive action in a bystander program.

The assessment has become the curriculum: Teachers’ views on the Phonics Screening Check in England (2020)
Journal Article
Carter, J. (2020). The assessment has become the curriculum: Teachers’ views on the Phonics Screening Check in England. British Educational Research Journal, 46(3), 593-609. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3598

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.

Realising young children's rights: Researching conversations with rights respecting early childhood leaders (2020)
Thesis
Butcher, H. E. Realising young children's rights: Researching conversations with rights respecting early childhood leaders. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1491158

Children in the UK have been rights bearing citizens since ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC, 1991). Between 1996-2017 the Department of Education, published 5 iterations of a curriculum for children youn... Read More about Realising young children's rights: Researching conversations with rights respecting early childhood leaders.

Edible insects: Applying Bakhtin’s carnivalesque to understand how education practices can help transform young people’s eating habits (2020)
Journal Article
Jones, V., & Benyon, S. (2021). Edible insects: Applying Bakhtin’s carnivalesque to understand how education practices can help transform young people’s eating habits. Children's Geographies, 19(1), 13-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2020.1718608

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.

Discovery approach to fieldwork (2020)
Journal Article
Jones, V., & Whitehouse, S. (2020). Discovery approach to fieldwork. Primary Geography, 23

The climate emergency and eating insects: Food for thought (2020)
Journal Article
Jones, V. (in press). The climate emergency and eating insects: Food for thought. Primary Geography,

The children in our classrooms are bombarded with doom and gloom stories about the state of the world: food poverty, war, carbon emissions, water shortages… . Fellow geographers, David Hicks (2018) and Hilary Whitehouse (2018), remind us that we shou... Read More about The climate emergency and eating insects: Food for thought.

Researching Multilingually in Applied Linguistics (2019)
Book Chapter
Andrews, J., Holmes, P., Fay, R., & Dawson, S. (2020). Researching Multilingually in Applied Linguistics. In H. Rose, & J. McKinley (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (76-86). (1). London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367824471

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.

Discussing atypical sexual harassment as a controversial issue in bystander programmes: One UK campus study (2019)
Journal Article
Bovill, H., Waller, R., & McCartan, K. (2019). Discussing atypical sexual harassment as a controversial issue in bystander programmes: One UK campus study. Sexuality and Culture, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-019-09682-8

This research emanates from an anti-sexual violence bystander programme delivered at an English university. Fifteen students were identified through purposive and convenience sampling to take part in focus groups. Discussions emerged regarding atypic... Read More about Discussing atypical sexual harassment as a controversial issue in bystander programmes: One UK campus study.

A case study exploring the definition and application of the concept of woman centred care in a pre-registration midwifery education programme (2019)
Thesis
Green, S. A case study exploring the definition and application of the concept of woman centred care in a pre-registration midwifery education programme. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1490789

Woman centred care is a concept frequently promoted as a core aspect of midwifery practice, policy and education. However, woman centred care often remains ill-defined and an elusive feature of clinical practice. The impact of woman centred care as p... Read More about A case study exploring the definition and application of the concept of woman centred care in a pre-registration midwifery education programme.