Outputs (3)

“I’ve got a mountain of paperwork to do!” literacies and texts in a cycle technicians’ workshop (2023)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2023). “I’ve got a mountain of paperwork to do!” literacies and texts in a cycle technicians’ workshop. Journal of Education and Work, 36(5), 381-392. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2023.2226076

Derived from an ethnography of working cultures and practices at a bike shop in the North of England, this paper rests on a critical application of social practice theories of literacy (Literacy Studies) in order to explore the complex and heterogene... Read More about “I’ve got a mountain of paperwork to do!” literacies and texts in a cycle technicians’ workshop.

Theorising the everyday work of cycle mechanics (2023)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2023). Theorising the everyday work of cycle mechanics. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2023.2206712

Drawing on interim findings from an ethnography of a cycle mechanics’ workshop, this article demonstrates how the work of the mechanics rests on not only specific and contextualised craft expertise but also on distributed networks of both people and... Read More about Theorising the everyday work of cycle mechanics.

Mapping academic practice: a Latourian inquiry into a set of lecture slides (2023)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2023). Mapping academic practice: a Latourian inquiry into a set of lecture slides. Higher Education Research & Development, 42(7), 1748-1761. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2174086

How is academic work accomplished within a curriculum that has been established through a digital education infrastructure, and what, exactly, does an academic member of staff do within this digital context? Reflecting on the empirical findings of a... Read More about Mapping academic practice: a Latourian inquiry into a set of lecture slides.