Professor Sam Nolan's Outputs (92)

Doctoral Colloquium—How Interactivity and Presence Affect Learning in Immersive Virtual Reality: A Mixed Methods Study Design (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fern, N., Cristea, A. I., Nolan, S., & Stewart, C. (2024, June). Doctoral Colloquium—How Interactivity and Presence Affect Learning in Immersive Virtual Reality: A Mixed Methods Study Design. Presented at 10th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

This doctoral colloquium paper describes a mixed-methods study to investigate the impact of high interactivity Immersive Virtual Reality (iVR) materials on learning in higher education. It is motivated by the changing landscape of iVR technology and... Read More about Doctoral Colloquium—How Interactivity and Presence Affect Learning in Immersive Virtual Reality: A Mixed Methods Study Design.

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..

Leading Innovation and Creativity in University Teaching: Implementing Change at the Programme Level (2022)
Book
Nolan, S., & Hutchinson, S. (Eds.). (2022). Leading Innovation and Creativity in University Teaching: Implementing Change at the Programme Level. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003190745

University teaching is increasingly required to be innovative yet safe, inclusive yet selective, and thought provoking yet metricised. In addition, higher education, like other aspects of society, has had to change rapidly in response to the Covid-19... Read More about Leading Innovation and Creativity in University Teaching: Implementing Change at the Programme Level.

Curiosity Leads: Recognising and Rewarding the Impact of SoTL in Research-Led Universities (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nolan, S. (2019, December). Curiosity Leads: Recognising and Rewarding the Impact of SoTL in Research-Led Universities. Paper presented at International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA

Building bridges or barriers? A critical examination of the playfulness of serious play (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nolan, S., & Whitton, N. (2019, December). Building bridges or barriers? A critical examination of the playfulness of serious play. Paper presented at ociety for Research into Higher Education 2019 Conference, Celtic Mannor Resort, Newport, Wales

University Teaching Core Skills (2019)
Digital Artefact
Bellamy, L., Bell, A., Davies, C., Nulty, D., Nolan, S., Price, M., Stefani, L., Strohfeldt, K., & Vlachopoulos, P. (2019). University Teaching Core Skills

Passive, continuous monitoring of carbon dioxide geostorage using muon tomography (2018)
Journal Article
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.

Working with students as partners to enhance the Transition into HE (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nolan, S. (2017, December). Working with students as partners to enhance the Transition into HE. Paper presented at Enhancing Student Learning Through Innovative Scholarship Conference 2017, University of Sheffield, UK

Widening Participation, Higher Education and Non-Traditional Students (2016)
Book
Marshall, C., Nolan, S., & Newton, D. (Eds.). (2016). Widening Participation, Higher Education and Non-Traditional Students. Palgrave Macmillan

Breaking Barriers: Overcoming Anxieties in Practical Science (2016)
Book Chapter
Nolan, S., Rees, S., & Rushall, C. (2016). Breaking Barriers: Overcoming Anxieties in Practical Science. In S. Nolan, D. Newton, & C. Marshall (Eds.), Widening Participation, Higher Education and Non- Traditional Students (73-88). (1). Palgrave Macmillan

Teaching Mathematics to Adults: Integrating New and Old Knowledge (2016)
Book Chapter
Nolan, S., Mathias, J., & Dodd, M. (2016). Teaching Mathematics to Adults: Integrating New and Old Knowledge. In S. Nolan, D. Newton, & C. Marshall (Eds.), Widening Participation, Higher Education and Non- Traditional Students (57-72). (1). Palgrave Macmillan

Engendering an Online Community: Supporting Students on the Transition into University Life (2016)
Book Chapter
Nolan, S., Bruce, M., & Leech, S. (2016). Engendering an Online Community: Supporting Students on the Transition into University Life. In C. Marshall, S. Nolan, & D. Newton (Eds.), Widening participation, higher education and non-traditional students : supporting transitions through Foundation Programmes (119-132). Palgrave Macmillan

Guest Editorial - Special Issue June 2016: ESLTIS 2015 - Conference Special Issue (2016)
Journal Article
Nolan, S., Marshall, C., & Pearce, N. (2016). Guest Editorial - Special Issue June 2016: ESLTIS 2015 - Conference Special Issue. Practice and evidence of the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education, 1(2016), 1-5

In this short editorial, we’ll discuss the evolution of the inaugural Enhancing Student Learning through Innovative Scholarship conference, of which this volume contains contributed papers. This conference, the first national meeting open to all teac... Read More about Guest Editorial - Special Issue June 2016: ESLTIS 2015 - Conference Special Issue.

Technology to Sustainably Support Laboratory Learning: Two Perspectives on Screen Experiments (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nolan, S., & Hatherly, P. (2013, December). Technology to Sustainably Support Laboratory Learning: Two Perspectives on Screen Experiments. Paper presented at Institute of Physics, Higher Education Group Meeting, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Using Interactive Screen Experiments as Pre-Laboratory Tasks to Enhance Student Learning (2013)
Journal Article
Nolan, S., Szablewski, M., McComb, T., & Hughes, I. (2013). Using Interactive Screen Experiments as Pre-Laboratory Tasks to Enhance Student Learning. New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.11120/ndir.2013.00011

Constraints on axionlike particles with H.E.S.S. from the irregularity of the PKS 2155-304 energy spectrum (2013)
Journal Article
Abramowski, A., Acero, F., Aharonian, F., Ait Benkhali, F., Akhperjanian, A., Angüner, E., …Collaboration, H. (2013). Constraints on axionlike particles with H.E.S.S. from the irregularity of the PKS 2155-304 energy spectrum. Physical Review D, 88(10), Article 102003. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.88.102003

Axionlike particles (ALPs) are hypothetical light (sub-eV) bosons predicted in some extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. In astrophysical environments comprising high-energy gamma rays and turbulent magnetic fields, the existence of... Read More about Constraints on axionlike particles with H.E.S.S. from the irregularity of the PKS 2155-304 energy spectrum.

HESS and Fermi-LAT discovery of γ-rays from the blazar 1ES 1312−423 (2013)
Journal Article
Abramowski, A., Acero, F., Aharonian, F., Akhperjanian, A., Angüner, E., Anton, G., …Kadler, M. (2013). HESS and Fermi-LAT discovery of γ-rays from the blazar 1ES 1312−423. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 434(3), 1889-1901. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1081

A deep observation campaign carried out by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) on Centaurus A enabled the discovery of γ-rays from the blazar 1ES 1312−423, 2° away from the radio galaxy. With a differential flux at 1 TeV of ϕ(1 TeV) = (1.9 ± 0... Read More about HESS and Fermi-LAT discovery of γ-rays from the blazar 1ES 1312−423.

H.E.S.S. discovery of VHE γ-rays from the quasar PKS 1510−089 (2013)
Journal Article
H.E.S.S. Collaboration Abramowski, A. A., F. Aharonian, F. A., A.G. Anton, G. B., S. Balzer, A. B., A. Becherini, Y. B. T., J. Behera, B. B., …S., H. (2013). H.E.S.S. discovery of VHE γ-rays from the quasar PKS 1510−089. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 554, Article A107. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321135

The quasar PKS 1510−089 (z = 0.361) was observed with the H.E.S.S. array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes during high states in the optical and GeV bands, to search for very high energy (VHE, defined as E ≥ 0.1 TeV) emission. VHE γ-rays we... Read More about H.E.S.S. discovery of VHE γ-rays from the quasar PKS 1510−089.

Discovery of high and very high-energy emission from the BL Lacertae object SHBL J001355.9-185406 (2013)
Journal Article
Abramowski, A., Acero, F., Aharonian, F., Akhperjanian, A., Angüner, E., Anton, G., …Zechlin, H. (2013). Discovery of high and very high-energy emission from the BL Lacertae object SHBL J001355.9-185406. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 554, Article A72. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201220996

The detection of the high-frequency peaked BL Lac object (HBL) SHBL J001355.9–185406 (z = 0.095) at high (HE; 100 MeV < E < 300 GeV) and very high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the High Energy Stereoscopic Sy... Read More about Discovery of high and very high-energy emission from the BL Lacertae object SHBL J001355.9-185406.

Discovery of TeV γ-ray emission from PKS 0447-439 and derivation of an upper limit on its redshift (2013)
Journal Article
Collaboration, H., Abramowski, A., Acero, F., Akhperjanian, A., Anton, G., Balenderan, S., …Pelat, D. (2013). Discovery of TeV γ-ray emission from PKS 0447-439 and derivation of an upper limit on its redshift. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 552, Article A118. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321108

Very high-energy γ-ray emission from PKS 0447−439 was detected with the H.E.S.S. Cherenkov telescope array in December 2009. This blazar is one of the brightest extragalactic objects in the Fermi bright source list and has a hard spectrum in the MeV... Read More about Discovery of TeV γ-ray emission from PKS 0447-439 and derivation of an upper limit on its redshift.