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The effects of population density on subjective well-being: A case-study of Slovakia (2021)
Journal Article
Želinský, T., Hudec, O., Mojsejová, A., & Hricová, S. (2021). The effects of population density on subjective well-being: A case-study of Slovakia. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 78, Article 101061. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2021.101061

The main objective of the study is to examine the effects of population density on individuals’ subjective well-being (SWB). The physical characteristics of the built environment have recently received more attention regarding their role in influenci... Read More about The effects of population density on subjective well-being: A case-study of Slovakia.

Doctoral students navigating the borderlands of academic teaching in an era of precarity (2021)
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Rao, N., Hosein, A., & Raaper, R. (2021). Doctoral students navigating the borderlands of academic teaching in an era of precarity. Teaching in Higher Education, 26(3), 454-470. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2021.1892058

Neoliberalisation of academia has led to an increasing recruitment of doctoral students in teaching roles. Whilst there is evidence of doctoral students being engaged in teaching roles and the reasons for doing so, there is a pressing need to underst... Read More about Doctoral students navigating the borderlands of academic teaching in an era of precarity.

Equivalence Scale and Income Poverty: Two Approaches to Estimate Country-specific Scale for the Czech Republic (2021)
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Mysíková, M., Želinský, T., Jirková, M., & Večerník, J. (2021). Equivalence Scale and Income Poverty: Two Approaches to Estimate Country-specific Scale for the Czech Republic. Social Indicators Research, 156(1), 21-45. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-021-02636-4

The at-risk-of-poverty rate, the relative income poverty indicator applied in the EU, can be highly sensitive to the equivalence scale used to transform household income to an equivalent for individuals. This study applies two well-established approa... Read More about Equivalence Scale and Income Poverty: Two Approaches to Estimate Country-specific Scale for the Czech Republic.

How can we help teachers to promote evidence-led teaching? (2021)
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Gorard, S. (2021). How can we help teachers to promote evidence-led teaching?. Professional development today,

Stephen Gorard argues that improvements in education research have not been accompanied by the means of getting this research used in education practice. He explains what needs to be done to help teachers sift out and use high quality evidence

Multisite educational trials: estimating the effect size and its confidence intervals (2021)
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Singh, A., Uwimpuhwe, G., Li, M., Einbeck, J., Higgins, S., & Kasim, A. (2022). Multisite educational trials: estimating the effect size and its confidence intervals. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 45(1), 18-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727x.2021.1882416

In education, multisite trials involve randomisation of pupils into intervention and comparison groups within schools. Most analytical models in multisite educational trials ignore that the impact of an intervention may be school dependent. This stud... Read More about Multisite educational trials: estimating the effect size and its confidence intervals.

Student Perspectives on improving mental health support Services at university (2021)
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Priestley, M., Broglia, E., Hughes, G., & Spanner, L. (2022). Student Perspectives on improving mental health support Services at university. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 22(1), 197-206. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12391

Drawing on thematic analysis of six student co‐creation panels, conducted during the Student Minds University Mental Health Charter consultations, this paper elucidates students’ perspectives and proposals regarding the current issues and challenges... Read More about Student Perspectives on improving mental health support Services at university.

‘We’re on their side, aren’t we?’ Exploring Qualified Teacher of Children and Young People with Vision Impairment (QTVI) views on the role of supporting the emotional well-being of visually impaired children (2021)
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Pilson, A. (2022). ‘We’re on their side, aren’t we?’ Exploring Qualified Teacher of Children and Young People with Vision Impairment (QTVI) views on the role of supporting the emotional well-being of visually impaired children. British Journal of Visual Impairment, 40(2), 335-350. https://doi.org/10.1177/0264619620984218

Mindful of the assertion that children with vision impairment (VI) are three times more likely than their peers to develop a mental health problem, this study aimed to identify practitioner-perceived priorities in supporting the emotional well-being... Read More about ‘We’re on their side, aren’t we?’ Exploring Qualified Teacher of Children and Young People with Vision Impairment (QTVI) views on the role of supporting the emotional well-being of visually impaired children.

Nationalism and Internationalism in Education in Europe in the 1920s through the Eyes of an American Observer (2021)
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Byram, M. (2023). Nationalism and Internationalism in Education in Europe in the 1920s through the Eyes of an American Observer. Paedagogica Historica, 59(2), 342-360. https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2021.1872659

This article addresses the ways in which education systems responded to the aftermath of World War I with respect to education for nationalism and internationalism. It does so by drawing on theories of internationalism and through an analysis of the... Read More about Nationalism and Internationalism in Education in Europe in the 1920s through the Eyes of an American Observer.

Cognition-oriented treatments for older adults: A systematic review of the influence of depression and self-efficacy individual differences factors (2021)
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Webb, S. L., Birney, D. P., Loh, V., Walker, S., Lampit, A., & Bahar-Fuchs, A. (2022). Cognition-oriented treatments for older adults: A systematic review of the influence of depression and self-efficacy individual differences factors. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 32(6), 1193-1229. https://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2020.1869567

The increasing prevalence of cognitive decline, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and dementia with the aging population has led to scrutiny of the efficacy of cognition-oriented treatments (COTs) aiming to maintain functioning, and delay or prevent f... Read More about Cognition-oriented treatments for older adults: A systematic review of the influence of depression and self-efficacy individual differences factors.

Dialogic Teaching Approach vis-à-vis Middle School Physics Teacher’s Content Knowledge (2021)
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Leta, D. T., Ayele, M. A., & Kind, V. (2021). Dialogic Teaching Approach vis-à-vis Middle School Physics Teacher’s Content Knowledge. Eurasia journal of mathematics science and technology education, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/9613

This study aimed to explore Ethiopian middle school physics teachers’ content knowledge (CK) and their implementation of Dialogic teaching (DT). A qualitative method, case study design, and purposive and convenient sampling employed in the study. Dat... Read More about Dialogic Teaching Approach vis-à-vis Middle School Physics Teacher’s Content Knowledge.

‘Boys, when they do dance, they have to do football as well, for balance’: Young men’s construction of a sporting masculinity (2021)
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Harding, S. N. (2022). ‘Boys, when they do dance, they have to do football as well, for balance’: Young men’s construction of a sporting masculinity. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 57(1), 19-33. https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690220987144

The construction of masculinity and identity for young men is often complex. The role of sport for young men’s construction of a ‘valued’ masculine identity mirrors this complexity, and sport is often viewed as the paradigmatic space for displaying d... Read More about ‘Boys, when they do dance, they have to do football as well, for balance’: Young men’s construction of a sporting masculinity.

Pupils' views about their learning in writing: a qualitative study of a primary school in the North East of England (2021)
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Kokotsaki, D. (2022). Pupils' views about their learning in writing: a qualitative study of a primary school in the North East of England. Education 3-13, 50(2), 252-266. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2020.1849342

This study aims to explore pupils’ views on writing in primary school through focus group interviews conducted in the North East of England with children aged 7–11 years old. Pupils’ views templates were used to stimulate children’s ideas about their... Read More about Pupils' views about their learning in writing: a qualitative study of a primary school in the North East of England.

Literacy for Life: Evaluating the National Literacy Trust’s bespoke programme for schools (2021)
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Morris, R., See, B., Gorard, S., & Siddiqui, N. (2023). Literacy for Life: Evaluating the National Literacy Trust’s bespoke programme for schools. Educational Studies, 49(2), 369-387. https://doi.org/10.1080/03055698.2020.1867077

This paper presents an evaluation of ‘Literacy for Life’ (LfL) – a whole-school literacy programme, implemented in five secondary schools in England. The aims of LfL were to improve literacy attainment and to promote positive attitudes to reading and... Read More about Literacy for Life: Evaluating the National Literacy Trust’s bespoke programme for schools.

Benchmarking a misnomer: A note on “Interpreting effect sizes in education interventions” (2021)
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Simpson, A. (2023). Benchmarking a misnomer: A note on “Interpreting effect sizes in education interventions”. Educational Researcher, 52(3), 180-182. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189x20985448

A recent article calculates new benchmarks from the distribution of effect sizes in a dataset, without accounting for signed values or sampling appropriately. In addition, the focus-narrowing approach it takes does little to address the issues highli... Read More about Benchmarking a misnomer: A note on “Interpreting effect sizes in education interventions”.

Inclusion across borders: young immigrants in France and England (2020)
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Welply, O. (2020). Inclusion across borders: young immigrants in France and England. Forum for international research in education, 6(1), 40-63. https://doi.org/10.32865/fire202061182

Globalisation and migration have brought new challenges to education in the past decades, raising questions about how schools can promote inclusion within contexts of increased diversity (Vertovec and Wessendorf, 2009). The concept of inclusive educa... Read More about Inclusion across borders: young immigrants in France and England.

Fostering creative thinking in a digital world (2020)
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Newton, D., & Newton, L. (2020). Fostering creative thinking in a digital world. International journal for talent development and creativity, 8(1 & 2), 19-28

We are now moving rapidly into a new world, one shaped by the Fourth ‘Industrial’ Revolution. This world is one in which digital technologies in various forms will shape work, play and everyday life. Such technologies, unlike the relatively passive o... Read More about Fostering creative thinking in a digital world.