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Digital Storytelling as Authentic Assessment: A Case from an Undergraduate Education Module” (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dragas, T. (2023, June). Digital Storytelling as Authentic Assessment: A Case from an Undergraduate Education Module”. Paper presented at DST 11th International Digital Storytelling Conference, University of Maryland, Montgomery College, Smithsonian Institute. USA

Digital storytelling’s unique capacity as a reflective tool that draws on personal experience in a creative way has been widely noted. However, in Higher Education contexts, there seems to be a gap in research terms and in pedagogical guidance on why... Read More about Digital Storytelling as Authentic Assessment: A Case from an Undergraduate Education Module”.

Learning about research methods: A case study (2023)
Book Chapter
Gascoine, L., & Mazzoli Smith, L. (2023). Learning about research methods: A case study. In M. Pulsford, R. Morris, & R. Purves (Eds.), Understanding Education Studies: Critical Issues and New Directions. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003296935

This chapter focusses on the pedagogy of teaching a research methods module in an undergraduate education studies programme. It presents a case study of a module that has been designed and taught with student-centred pedagogy in mind, underpinned by... Read More about Learning about research methods: A case study.

Narrative-based Learning for Person-centred Healthcare: the Caring Stories Learning Framework (2023)
Journal Article
Mazzoli Smith, L., Villar, F., & Wendel, S. (2023). Narrative-based Learning for Person-centred Healthcare: the Caring Stories Learning Framework. Medical Humanities, 49(4), 583-592. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2022-012530

This paper describes the learning framework for an innovative narrative-based training platform for healthcare professionals based on older patients’ narratives. The aim of Caring Stories is to place patients’ desires and needs at the heart of health... Read More about Narrative-based Learning for Person-centred Healthcare: the Caring Stories Learning Framework.

Understanding higher education students’ sense of belonging: a qualitative meta-ethnographic analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Dost, G., & Mazzoli Smith, L. (2023). Understanding higher education students’ sense of belonging: a qualitative meta-ethnographic analysis. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 47(6), 822-849. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877x.2023.2191176

The current literature on ‘sense of belonging’ spans a number of disciplines, with no apparent consensus on definition between these, complicated by the fact that sense of belonging is temporal and context-sensitive (such as during COVID-19). In part... Read More about Understanding higher education students’ sense of belonging: a qualitative meta-ethnographic analysis.

The Epistemology and Ethics of Analysing Lived Experience Data: A Pragmatic Foucauldian-Informed Approach to Coproducing Student Mental Health Initiatives in the Neoliberal University (2023)
Journal Article
Priestley, M., & Mazzoli-Smith, L. (2023). The Epistemology and Ethics of Analysing Lived Experience Data: A Pragmatic Foucauldian-Informed Approach to Coproducing Student Mental Health Initiatives in the Neoliberal University. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22(January-December 2023), https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231215234

Analysis of lived experience data is increasingly advocated as an enabling strategy to inform ethical and effective policy and practice, particularly in the university mental health field. However, where Michel Foucault’s work is often drawn on to fr... Read More about The Epistemology and Ethics of Analysing Lived Experience Data: A Pragmatic Foucauldian-Informed Approach to Coproducing Student Mental Health Initiatives in the Neoliberal University.