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Widening participation in higher education: Reforming infographics beyond the visual through the eyes of sports coaching students

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In this blog post, I explore the value of infographics beyond their visual aspect for widening participation students. The post draws on my PhD research, which focuses on the value of infographics...

Anomie in the UK: What’s holding back the ideas-informed society?

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On less optimistic days, we might reflect that for some in society, the social fabric that binds us together is currently not only fraying but unravelling. This leads us to question what it would...

Innovative Research Methodologies: The learning schools approach

This podcast is the fifth in a series commissioned by the Research Methodology in Education Special Interest Group to showcase the variety of methodologies and methods being undertaken by...

Mei Kuin Lai

Dr Mei Kuin Lai is an Associate Professor at The University of Auckland’s Faculty of Education and Social Work. She is Director of the Woolf Fisher Research Centre there and was recently...

Rebecca Jesson

Dr Rebecca Jesson is an Associate Professor in literacy education at The University of Auckland’s Faculty of Education and Social Work. She was recently appointed Research and Academic Director...

Decisions of a new researcher: To be accepted or rejected

I’m standing very still. My toes are curled over a stone ledge, a gaping dark chasm below me. It is decision time. But which way to go? I had been contemplating this decision for some months....

The potential of mobilising interdisciplinary peer-to-peer mentoring between PhD students: Initial reflections from a pilot study

There is growing interest in using coaching and mentoring strategies to improve the learning and development experiences of postgraduate research students. Previous studies from England and...

Summer 2023

Research Intelligence issue 155: Practitioner research: Development, collaboration & dissemination

The case of a higher education journal: Assessment and evaluation in higher education

I’ve edited Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, or AEHE for short, for a decade now. Before that I edited Studies in Higher Education for a similar period, and before that Higher...

Journal peer review: Higher Education Research & Development

As one of the co-editors of Higher Education Research & Development, I had the privilege to meet early career researchers from BERA in October 2022 via Zoom. After I introduced the journal Higher...

Innovative Research Methodologies: Posthumanist Methodologies

This podcast is the fourth in a series commissioned by the Research Methodology in Education Special Interest Group to showcase the variety of methodologies and methods being undertaken by...

Journal peer review: What applied linguistics journal editors look for

As a co-editor-in-chief for the journal System (long name An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics), I was delighted to have the opportunity to speak about my...