Using pre-arrival shared reading to promote a sense of community: A case study across two institutions
Journal Article
Baverstock, A., Steinitz, J., Webster-Henderson, B., Bryars, L., Cairncross, S., Ennis, L., …McLuckie, C. (2018)
Using pre-arrival shared reading to promote a sense of community: A case study across two institutions. Logos, 29(4), https://doi.org/10.1163/18784712-02904005
Seeking to improve student enrolment, engagement, and retention, Kingston University began a pre-arrival shared reading scheme in 2014–2015, sending a free book to every stude...
Advocacy in Action: How a university shared reading project reaches homeless readers in Scotland
Presentation / Conference
Gray, A. (2021, March)
Advocacy in Action: How a university shared reading project reaches homeless readers in Scotland. Paper presented at AdvanceHE Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conference, Online
This paper provides genuine insight into the rationale for an approach to inclusivity that penetrates to the very edges of society. It underpins the need to find better method...
Children's Reading Habits.
Presentation / Conference
Gray, A. (2010, September)
Children's Reading Habits. Paper presented at Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Oxford, UK
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Advocacy in action: How a university shared reading project reaches homeless readers in Scotland
Presentation / Conference
Gray, A. (2020, March)
Advocacy in action: How a university shared reading project reaches homeless readers in Scotland. Paper presented at Advance HE Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conference, 2020, Edinburgh
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This paper provides genuine insight into the rationale for an approach to inclusivity that penetrates to the very edges of society....
Can't Read or Won't Read? - Children's Reading Habits
Presentation / Conference
Gray, A. (2012, January)
Can't Read or Won't Read? - Children's Reading Habits. Paper presented at International Conference on the Book
Bolshie teenagers and boring books: pre and post Potter.
Presentation / Conference
Gray, A. (2009, October)
Bolshie teenagers and boring books: pre and post Potter. Paper presented at 7th International Conference on the Book, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Scotland
A 1989 report provided both a snapshot of the contemporary role of reading in children’s lives and a basis upon which policies could be developed in order to encourage reading...
A semester with the Sony eBook Reader.
Presentation / Conference
Allan, D. (2009, October)
A semester with the Sony eBook Reader. Paper presented at International Conference on the Book, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Scotland
The marketplace has seen the launch over the past two years of a plethora of products that can now handle digitised books on mobile devices. One of the most prominent of these...
Letting others do the work for you: the use of a wiki in creating a large-scale dataset.
Presentation / Conference
Gunn, L. (2009, June)
Letting others do the work for you: the use of a wiki in creating a large-scale dataset. Paper presented at Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
The problems of creating a large and diverse dataset for public online access are common across a number of fields and disciplines, particularly where the resources available ...
Putting tartan in the mix: the strange case of "Gideon Mack".
Presentation / Conference
McCleery, A., & Copeland, C. (2009, June)
Putting tartan in the mix: the strange case of "Gideon Mack". Paper presented at Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Changing audiences: the case of the Penguin "Ulysses".
Book
McCleery, A. (2010)
Changing audiences: the case of the Penguin "Ulysses". In G. Allen, C. Griffin, & M. O'Connell (Eds.), Readings on audience and textual materiality, 131-142. Chatto and Pickering