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Theatre in the round: a study of the effectiveness of 360-degree video and VR to address critical questions in the teaching and learning of drama (2024)
Journal Article
Brown, A., Childs, M., & Youdale, J. (online). Theatre in the round: a study of the effectiveness of 360-degree video and VR to address critical questions in the teaching and learning of drama. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2024.2434760

This research explored how 360-video when experienced through virtual reality (VR) might support higher education (HE) English Literature students to perceive critical issues in dramatic works. Previous research placed observers into dramatic action... Read More about Theatre in the round: a study of the effectiveness of 360-degree video and VR to address critical questions in the teaching and learning of drama.

The role of the facilitator in collective reflection on higher education teaching (2024)
Journal Article
Rattray, J., Reimann, N., Dragas, T., Rajab, T., & Murray, M. (online). The role of the facilitator in collective reflection on higher education teaching. International Journal for Academic Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2024.2423157

This paper arose from the authors’ experience of facilitating collective reflection on higher education teaching using the ‘intercultural teaching process recall’ (iTPR) method. Facilitators’ contributions to the iTPR sessions were analysed empirical... Read More about The role of the facilitator in collective reflection on higher education teaching.

Compassionate inquiry: digital storytelling and the ethics of care (2024)
Journal Article
Ward, S., Dragas, T., Mazzoli Smith, L., Ross, K., & Miao, Z. (online). Compassionate inquiry: digital storytelling and the ethics of care. Teaching in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2024.2394600

In this paper we identify the use of Digital Storytelling (DS) as a mode of pedagogy aligned with an ethics of care. We consider how DS, as summative assessment, may foreground care ethics such as attentiveness, responsiveness, and trust. Our interes... Read More about Compassionate inquiry: digital storytelling and the ethics of care.

Personal Development of Doctoral Students (2024)
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Riby, D. M., & Rees, S. (2024). Personal Development of Doctoral Students. Encyclopedia, 4(2), 743-752. https://doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia4020047

Definition: Personal development refers to the process of increasing one’s self-awareness, associated increases of self-esteem, increasing skills, and fulfilling one’s aspirations. The current paper reflects on these elements within the doctoral jour... Read More about Personal Development of Doctoral Students.

Escape Rooms as Tools for Learning Through Failure (2024)
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Rawlinson, R. E., & Whitton, N. (2024). Escape Rooms as Tools for Learning Through Failure. The Electronic Journal of eLearning, 22(4), https://doi.org/10.34190/ejel.21.7.3182

The increasingly neoliberal course of Higher Education is linked to rises in student anxiety around assessment and increased fear of the consequences of failure. Making mistakes is an inevitable part of any learning process (and of li... Read More about Escape Rooms as Tools for Learning Through Failure.

Editorial- Launching Enhancing Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (ELTHE): a place to publish and share your own scholarly work and teaching innovations. (2024)
Journal Article
Roger, M., & Nolan, S. (2024). Editorial- Launching Enhancing Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (ELTHE): a place to publish and share your own scholarly work and teaching innovations. Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 1, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.62512/etlhe.13

Welcome to the first edition of Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (ELTHE). ETLHE offers an opportunity for those involved in universitylearning and teaching to disseminate their practice. It aims to publish accounts of scho... Read More about Editorial- Launching Enhancing Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (ELTHE): a place to publish and share your own scholarly work and teaching innovations..

Addressing discipline specificity in a multidisciplinary EAP classroom through data-driven learning (2024)
Journal Article
Therova, D., & McKay, A. (2024). Addressing discipline specificity in a multidisciplinary EAP classroom through data-driven learning. Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 1, 21-40. https://doi.org/10.62512/etlhe.9

Mastering academic writing is one of the challenges frequently experienced by university students across all levels and disciplines. As writing remains one of the most common ways of demonstrating knowledge in university settings, developing an appro... Read More about Addressing discipline specificity in a multidisciplinary EAP classroom through data-driven learning.

Academic Advising: Improving Current Practices (2024)
Journal Article
Zaher, A. (2024). Academic Advising: Improving Current Practices. Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 1, 41-51. https://doi.org/10.62512/etlhe.8

Academic advising is an essential element of a student’s experience and an integral part of a professor’s work. However, it does not always receive enough attention in higher education (HE) institutions even though it has proven to be crucial in enha... Read More about Academic Advising: Improving Current Practices.

Why Didn't the Pre-Arrival Intervention to Combat Maths Anxiety Work? (2023)
Journal Article
Mathias, J., & Staddon, R. V. (2023). Why Didn't the Pre-Arrival Intervention to Combat Maths Anxiety Work?. Journal of the Foundation Year Network, 6, 99-112

There has been a growing demand for advanced quantitative skills in UK workplaces in the last twenty years. In response to this, the foundation programme in this study mandates social science, business and biology students to complete a 30-credit mat... Read More about Why Didn't the Pre-Arrival Intervention to Combat Maths Anxiety Work?.

Enhancing student writing with do-it-yourself corpora on a PhD pre-sessional programme (2023)
Journal Article
Therova, D., & McKay, A. (in press). Enhancing student writing with do-it-yourself corpora on a PhD pre-sessional programme. Language Teaching Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688231221350

As an effective writing course should focus on disciplines and their unique characteristics, practitioners of English for academic purposes (EAP) are often faced with the challenge of addressing the different needs of learners from various fields of... Read More about Enhancing student writing with do-it-yourself corpora on a PhD pre-sessional programme.

Inconsistent Language Use in Online Resources Explaining the Mole Has Implications for Students’ Understanding (2022)
Journal Article
Rees, S. W., & Bruce, M. (2022). Inconsistent Language Use in Online Resources Explaining the Mole Has Implications for Students’ Understanding. Journal of Chemical Education, 99(7), https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00199

The quantity amount of substance (symbol “n”) and its SI unit, the mole (symbol “mol”), are unfamiliar to novice chemistry students. Developing a good understanding of this quantity and its unit has previously been demonstrated to be problematic. In... Read More about Inconsistent Language Use in Online Resources Explaining the Mole Has Implications for Students’ Understanding.

The Creative Sciences (2021)
Journal Article
Rees, S., & Newton, D. (2021). The Creative Sciences. School science review, 382, 57-62

Creativity lies at the heart of science teaching and learning. However, stereotypically, creativity is more widely associated with the arts than the sciences. In this article, we challenge this perception and demonstrate how to teach for and with cre... Read More about The Creative Sciences.

“We make the invisible visible”: Investigating and evaluating the one-to-one consultation service at a UK higher education institution (2021)
Journal Article
Nathan, P. (2021). “We make the invisible visible”: Investigating and evaluating the one-to-one consultation service at a UK higher education institution. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 52, Article 101000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2021.101000

One-to-one consultation services comprise key forms of student academic writing support at higher education institutions across the globe. Evaluations of these services are central to sustaining provision and for supporting effective pedagogy and ser... Read More about “We make the invisible visible”: Investigating and evaluating the one-to-one consultation service at a UK higher education institution.

Giving away control of the questions: an alternative methodology for engaging students in evaluation exercises (2018)
Journal Article
Tan, E., Murray, M. R., & Loughlin, E. (2018). Giving away control of the questions: an alternative methodology for engaging students in evaluation exercises. Student engagement in higher education journal, 2(2), 29-46

This paper explores the application of a ‘students as partners’ approach within a project undertaking an evaluation of the learning experiences with technology of students (n=250) within one institution. The full outcomes of this study are written up... Read More about Giving away control of the questions: an alternative methodology for engaging students in evaluation exercises.

Passive, continuous monitoring of carbon dioxide geostorage using muon tomography (2018)
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Gluyas, J., Thompson, L., Allen, D., Benton, C., Chadwick, P., Clark, S., Klinger, J., Kudryavtsev, V., Lincoln, D., Maunder, B., Mitchell, C., Nolan, S., Paling, S., Spooner, N., Staykov, L., Telfer, S., Woodward, D., & Coleman, M. (2018). Passive, continuous monitoring of carbon dioxide geostorage using muon tomography. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 377(2137), Article 20180059. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2018.0059

Carbon capture and storage is a transition technology from a past and present fuelled by coal, oil and gas and a planned future dominated by renewable energy sources. The technology involves the capture of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel po... Read More about Passive, continuous monitoring of carbon dioxide geostorage using muon tomography.

The development of chemical language usage by “non-traditional” students: the interlanguage analogy (2018)
Journal Article
Rees, S., Kind, V., & Newton, D. (2018). The development of chemical language usage by “non-traditional” students: the interlanguage analogy. Research in Science Education, 51(2), 419-438. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-018-9801-0

Students commonly find specialist scientific language problematic. This study investigated developments in chemical language usage by six non-traditional students over the course of 1 to 4 years. The students participated in semi-structured interview... Read More about The development of chemical language usage by “non-traditional” students: the interlanguage analogy.