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Introducing the #baglady methodology

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Finding friends as an adult is really difficult. As a child it’s easy to approach someone, state your name, and ask if they want to play: sorted. As an adult such an approach might be frowned...

Can developing peer mentoring relationships improve teaching development in higher education?

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Teaching excellence has been at the forefront of policy worldwide (O’Leary & Savage, 2020). In the UK, the Teaching Excellence Framework, ranking tables and scrutiny from the Office for...

Better together: Research-practice partnerships in education

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Research-practice partnerships (RPPs) are collaborative research structures which seek to improve children and young people’s educational experiences and outcomes, by synthesising the cumulative...

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...

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...

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...

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...