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Using pre-arrival shared reading to promote a sense of community: A case study across two institutions

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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...

Using an Outdoor Learning Space to Teach Sustainability and Material Processes in HE Product Design

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Firth, R., Stoltenberg, E., & Jennings, T. (2016)
Using an Outdoor Learning Space to Teach Sustainability and Material Processes in HE Product Design. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 35(3), 327-336. https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12109
The world is facing environmental changes that are increasingly affecting how we think about manufacturing, the consumption of products and use of resources. Within the HE pro...

Casual Lecturers in UK Universities: A View from/off the Edge of Europe

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Sellors, C. P. (2016)
Casual Lecturers in UK Universities: A View from/off the Edge of Europe. Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier, 4(2),
Article can be read on the journal page - http://www.teachingmedi...ew-fromoff-edge-europe/

Becoming a student of English: students experiences of transition into the first year.

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Alder, E. (2016)
Becoming a student of English: students experiences of transition into the first year. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474022216628303
This study explored the transition to university as experienced by first-year students of English studies. The first year has been identified by existing research as a critica...

Inside Out, Outside In: Thinking a Tagorean Future of Education: Inside Out, Outside In: Thinking a Tagorean Future of Education

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Kupfer, C. (2015)
Inside Out, Outside In: Thinking a Tagorean Future of Education: Inside Out, Outside In: Thinking a Tagorean Future of Education. Literature compass, 12(5), 206-218. https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12230
Rabindranath Tagore’s ideas can still inspire education in the East as well as in the West today. In this paper, I survey Tagore’s philosophical anthropology and argue that th...

Conversation, Collaboration, Credit: The Graduate Researcher in the Digital Scholarly Environment

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Powell, D. J., Bouchard, M., Galgleish, M., Keenan, A., McLeod, A., & Thomson, T. (2012)
Conversation, Collaboration, Credit: The Graduate Researcher in the Digital Scholarly Environment. Digital Studies / Le champ numérique, 4,
The humanities are undergoing profound shifts in the nature of the processes used to produce scholarly work. As this migration to digital practices is increasingly accepted at...

Why throw the negs out with the bath water?

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Macdonald, I. (2012)
Why throw the negs out with the bath water?. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 31, 191-214. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1476-8070.2012.01735.x
Today’s digital age holds so much promise it is easy to dismiss the previous technologies and processes that provided yesterday’s creative opportunities. Photography has been ...

The status of information society studies in the information science curriculum.

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Duff, A. (2001)
The status of information society studies in the information science curriculum. Library Review. 51, 139-148. doi:10.1108/00242530210420997. ISSN 0024-2535
Argues for a central role for information society studies in degree programmes. Information society studies is an interdisciplinary specialism devoted to examination of the ma...