All Outputs (12)

Unravelling the Data Puzzle: A Total Survey Error Perspective on Adult Learning and Education Participation in the UK (2025)
Journal Article
Baldan Babayigit, B., Boeren, E., Clancy, S., Evangelista, Z., Holford, J., & Capsada-Munsech, Q. (2025). Unravelling the Data Puzzle: A Total Survey Error Perspective on Adult Learning and Education Participation in the UK. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 44(3), 273–290. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2025.2493798

This paper investigates the methodological discrepancies underlying the measurement of adult learning and education (ALE) participation in the UK by focusing on four major surveys—APiL, PIAAC, AES, and LFS. Grounded in the Total Survey Error (TSE) fr... Read More about Unravelling the Data Puzzle: A Total Survey Error Perspective on Adult Learning and Education Participation in the UK.

Contextualising the struggle to improve adult education provision–global perspectives (2023)
Journal Article
Clancy, S., James, N., & Zarifis, G. K. (2023). Contextualising the struggle to improve adult education provision–global perspectives. Studies in the Education of Adults, 55(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/02660830.2023.2202904

Special issue on lived experience, learning, community activism and social change (2022)
Journal Article
Clancy, S., Harman, K., & Jones, I. (2022). Special issue on lived experience, learning, community activism and social change. Studies in the Education of Adults, 54(2), 123-127. https://doi.org/10.1080/02660830.2022.2105551

Discourses, dialogue and diversity in biographical research: An ecology of life and learning (2022)
Journal Article
Clancy, S. (2022). Discourses, dialogue and diversity in biographical research: An ecology of life and learning. International Review of Education, 68, 489–492. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-022-09953-x

Politics, power and participation (2022)
Journal Article
Clancy, S., James, N., Thériault, V., & Zarifis, G. K. (2022). Politics, power and participation. Studies in the Education of Adults, 54(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1080/02660830.2022.2042075

Decolonising globalised curriculum landscapes: The identity and agency of academics (2021)
Journal Article
Reyes Jr., V., Clancy, S., Koge, H., Richardson, K., & Taylor, P. (2021). Decolonising globalised curriculum landscapes: The identity and agency of academics. London Review of Education, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.14324/LRE.19.1.26

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)
Journal Article
Clancy, S. L., & Holford, J. (2018). “Life-changing things happen”: The role of residential education in the transformation of adults’ learning and lives. Education and Training, 60(6), 620-636. https://doi.org/10.1108/ET-03-2018-0069

© 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)
Journal Article
Clancy, S. (2018). Being a ‘backward traveller’: the politics of life history. Post-16 Educator, 19-20

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)
Journal Article
CLANCY, S. (2018). The time traveller’s life: why oral history is so vital. inTuition, Research supplement(3), 5

The power of language in the age of austerity: volunteers and practitioners reflect on UK civil society (2017)
Journal Article
Clancy, S. (2017). The power of language in the age of austerity: volunteers and practitioners reflect on UK civil society. Research for All, 1(2), 234-251. https://doi.org/10.18546/RFA.01.2.02

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)
Journal Article
Clancy, S. (2016). Distress in the city: racism, fundamentalism and a democratic education. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 35(3), 351-353. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2016.1203167

The politics of public engagement: reclaiming community? (2015)
Journal Article
Clancy, S. (2015). The politics of public engagement: reclaiming community?. Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement, 8(1), 160-166. https://doi.org/10.5130/ijcre.v8i1.4475

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?.