All Outputs (11)

Contextualising the struggle to improve adult education provision–global perspectives (2023)
Journal Article

Special issue on lived experience, learning, community activism and social change (2022)
Journal Article

Discourses, dialogue and diversity in biographical research: An ecology of life and learning (2022)
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Politics, power and participation (2022)
Journal Article

Decolonising globalised curriculum landscapes: The identity and agency of academics (2021)
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This article explores how academics in a higher education institution (HEI) make sense of the challenges that they encounter in a neoliberal context typified by an increasingly globalised curriculum landscape. Two key questions are explored: What are... Read More about Decolonising globalised curriculum landscapes: The identity and agency of academics.

“Life-changing things happen”: The role of residential education in the transformation of adults’ learning and lives (2018)
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© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the implications for adults of learning in a residential context and whether the residential aspect intensifies the learning process, and can lead to enhanced person... Read More about “Life-changing things happen”: The role of residential education in the transformation of adults’ learning and lives.

Being a ‘backward traveller’: the politics of life history (2018)
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Sharon Clancy discusses how oral history approaches can be applied to both historical and contemporary research.

The time traveller’s life: why oral history is so vital (2018)
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The power of language in the age of austerity: volunteers and practitioners reflect on UK civil society (2017)
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This article is offered as an example of practice-based research, focusing on the concept of praxis: the bringing together of research, theory and action. It does this by exploring the challenges of group work and collaborative thinking, sharing the... Read More about The power of language in the age of austerity: volunteers and practitioners reflect on UK civil society.

Distress in the city: racism, fundamentalism and a democratic education (2016)
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The politics of public engagement: reclaiming community? (2015)
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This article examines the tension between the rhetoric and reality of public engagement, seen through the eyes of a practitioner who has worked in both the arenas of community activism and as a public engagement broker within a UK Russell Group unive... Read More about The politics of public engagement: reclaiming community?.