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Perceived Social Resources Affect Help-Seeking and Academic Outcomes in the Initial Phase of Undergraduate Studies (2021)
Journal Article
Schlusche, C., Schnaubert, L., & Bodemer, D. (2021). Perceived Social Resources Affect Help-Seeking and Academic Outcomes in the Initial Phase of Undergraduate Studies. Frontiers in Education, 6, Article 732587. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.732587

First-year students are challenged cognitively and socially by the need to integrate into a new environment. This article investigates the role of peer students as a social resource for academic help-seeking to overcome knowledge-related difficulties... Read More about Perceived Social Resources Affect Help-Seeking and Academic Outcomes in the Initial Phase of Undergraduate Studies.

From Instrumental to Integral Mindfulness: Toward a More Holistic and Transformative Approach in Schools (2021)
Journal Article
Brito, R., Joseph, S., & Sellman, E. (2022). From Instrumental to Integral Mindfulness: Toward a More Holistic and Transformative Approach in Schools. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 41(1), 91-109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-021-09810-8

Although the implementation of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) in educational contexts appear to have demonstrated some benefits for students and teachers in research studies conducted over the last two decades, there are also those who critic... Read More about From Instrumental to Integral Mindfulness: Toward a More Holistic and Transformative Approach in Schools.

Staying and studying: narratives of local higher education in small island colleges (2021)
Journal Article
Henderson, H. (2022). Staying and studying: narratives of local higher education in small island colleges. Higher Education Research and Development, 41(7), 2187-2200. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2021.1996340

Due to the unequal geographical distribution of HE institutions in many national HE systems, living in a rural or remote area and attending HE can be mutually exclusive. The implication is that those who remain in a rural area beyond school age do no... Read More about Staying and studying: narratives of local higher education in small island colleges.

Editorial: Ways of Seeing Women’s Leadership in Education—Stories, Images, Metaphors, Methods and Theories (2021)
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Fuller, K., Moorosi, P., Showunmi, V., & Shah, S. (2021). Editorial: Ways of Seeing Women’s Leadership in Education—Stories, Images, Metaphors, Methods and Theories. Frontiers in Education, 6, Article 781049. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.781049

Gender and educational leadership remains a focus for scholarly interest precisely because gender inequalities remain. That is the case 30 years on from the publication of seminal works that established gender and women in educational leadership as a... Read More about Editorial: Ways of Seeing Women’s Leadership in Education—Stories, Images, Metaphors, Methods and Theories.

Instructional leadership in sub-Saharan Africa: policy and practice (2021)
Journal Article
Bush, T., Fadare, M., Chirimambowa, T., Enukorah, E., Musa, D., Nur, H., …Shipota, M. (2022). Instructional leadership in sub-Saharan Africa: policy and practice. International Journal of Educational Management, 36(1), 14-31. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEM-01-2021-0027

Design/methodology/approach This paper reports the findings of a systematic literature review, and participant interviews, in six sub-Sahara African countries. The research links to the British Council's initiative to develop instructional leadersh... Read More about Instructional leadership in sub-Saharan Africa: policy and practice.

PISA: Engagement, Attainment and interest in Science (PEAS) (2021)
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Oliver, M., Jerrim, J., & Adkins, M. J. (2021). PISA: Engagement, Attainment and interest in Science (PEAS). London: Nuffield Foundation

The way in which science is taught can influence how interested, engaged and informed students are. Teachers are responsible for the delivery of curriculum content as well as shaping views towards, beliefs about and ‘trust’ in science. Different inst... Read More about PISA: Engagement, Attainment and interest in Science (PEAS).

Policymaking in disruptive times: the development and impact of School Trust-designed policies on teacher and student outcomes (2021)
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Day, C., & Taneva, S. K. (2021). Policymaking in disruptive times: the development and impact of School Trust-designed policies on teacher and student outcomes. University of Nottingham: ESRC

Research funded by the ESRC IAA and conducted by the University of Nottingham in collaboration with the Confederation of School Trusts, has tracked the leadership of 14 School Trusts from some of the most deprived areas in the Northern region of Engl... Read More about Policymaking in disruptive times: the development and impact of School Trust-designed policies on teacher and student outcomes.

Calculating the cost: place, mobility and price in higher education decision-making for students on small islands around the UK (2021)
Journal Article
Henderson, H. (2023). Calculating the cost: place, mobility and price in higher education decision-making for students on small islands around the UK. Educational Review, 75(5), 851-870. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2021.1984213

The decision of whether and where to attend higher education is an inherently geographical decision. Amongst the structural inequalities that determine how decisions about higher education are made are a number of complex socio-spatial factors rangin... Read More about Calculating the cost: place, mobility and price in higher education decision-making for students on small islands around the UK.

Editorial for Special Issue - Leadership in Multi-School Organisations (2021)
Journal Article
Greany, T. (2021). Editorial for Special Issue - Leadership in Multi-School Organisations. School Leadership and Management, 41(4-5), 285-289. https://doi.org/10.1080/13632434.2021.1981110

This special issue focusses on governance, leadership and improvement in Multi-School Organisations (MSOs). Three types of MSO are examined across the five articles - Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) in England, Boards of Multiple Schools (BMSs) in the Ne... Read More about Editorial for Special Issue - Leadership in Multi-School Organisations.

Australian teachers' perceptions of effectiveness in a performative culture (2021)
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Simpson, A., Day, C., Goulding, J., & Asha, J. (2022). Australian teachers' perceptions of effectiveness in a performative culture. Teaching and Teacher Education, 109, Article 103542. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2021.103542

Teachers' perceptions of effectiveness are shaped by myriad factors, including broad-based national education policy, personal values, and the demands of particular schools and students. Previous research has not investigated the shifting impact of i... Read More about Australian teachers' perceptions of effectiveness in a performative culture.

Effectiveness of VR-based training on improving construction workers’ knowledge, skills, and safety behavior in robotic teleoperation (2021)
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Adami, P., Rodrigues, P. B., Woods, P. J., Becerik-Gerber, B., Soibelman, L., Copur-Gencturk, Y., & Lucas, G. (2021). Effectiveness of VR-based training on improving construction workers’ knowledge, skills, and safety behavior in robotic teleoperation. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 50, Article 101431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2021.101431

The emergence of construction robotics and automation has produced an urgent and vast need for construction workers to reskill and upskill for the future of work. Virtual Reality (VR)-based training has been considered and investigated as a safe and... Read More about Effectiveness of VR-based training on improving construction workers’ knowledge, skills, and safety behavior in robotic teleoperation.

Inpatient Institutional Care: The Forced Social Environment (2021)
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Joyes, E. C., Jordan, M., Winship, G., & Crawford, P. (2021). Inpatient Institutional Care: The Forced Social Environment. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 690384. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.690384

The landscape of mental health recovery is changing; there have been calls for a shift from the clinical expertise being the dominant voice within mental healthcare towards a more personalised and collaborative service that supports those in need of... Read More about Inpatient Institutional Care: The Forced Social Environment.

Principles of Success: Facilitating Sustainable Transformation through a Progressive Relational Pedagogy (2021)
Journal Article
Caine, J., Gilroy, J., Greaves, M., & Madriaga, M. (2022). Principles of Success: Facilitating Sustainable Transformation through a Progressive Relational Pedagogy. Social Policy and Society, 21(1), 106-122. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1474746421000658

University staff from African, Asian and other Minoritised Groups (AAMG) are not resigned to the pervasiveness of white supremacy in the corridors, classrooms, and lecture theatres of the academy. This article articulates a self-study, where we emplo... Read More about Principles of Success: Facilitating Sustainable Transformation through a Progressive Relational Pedagogy.

The private sector in the development landscape: partnerships, power, and questionable possibilities (2021)
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Hart, J., Russon, J., & Sklair, J. (2021). The private sector in the development landscape: partnerships, power, and questionable possibilities. Development in Practice, 31(7), 857-871. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2021.1966172

In introducing the Special Issue on The Private Sector in the Development Landscape this article focuses upon three key themes all related, in some manner, to the issue of power. These themes are drawn from the critique of partnership amongst convent... Read More about The private sector in the development landscape: partnerships, power, and questionable possibilities.

Development and validation of a 12-item version of the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory (B-L RI:mini) using item response theory (2021)
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Chen, S., Liao, F., Murphy, D., & Joseph, S. (2021). Development and validation of a 12-item version of the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory (B-L RI:mini) using item response theory. Current Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02348-5

The Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory (B-L RI; Barrett-Lennard, (2015). The Relationship Inventory A Complete Resource and Guide. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:101:1-201602103917) is the most widely used measure of the facilitative conditio... Read More about Development and validation of a 12-item version of the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory (B-L RI:mini) using item response theory.

How Humanistic Is Positive Psychology? Lessons in Positive Psychology From Carl Rogers' Person-Centered Approach—It's the Social Environment That Must Change (2021)
Journal Article
Joseph, S. (2021). How Humanistic Is Positive Psychology? Lessons in Positive Psychology From Carl Rogers' Person-Centered Approach—It's the Social Environment That Must Change. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 709789. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.709789

Both positive psychology and the person-centered approach share a common aim to promote human flourishing. In this article I will discuss how the person-centered approach is a form of positive psychology, but positive psychology is not necessarily pe... Read More about How Humanistic Is Positive Psychology? Lessons in Positive Psychology From Carl Rogers' Person-Centered Approach—It's the Social Environment That Must Change.

Understanding international postgraduate students’ educational mobility to China: an ecological systematic perspective (2021)
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Yu, Y., Cheng, M., & Xu, Y. (2022). Understanding international postgraduate students’ educational mobility to China: an ecological systematic perspective. Higher Education Research and Development, 41(6), 2137-2153. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2021.1973383

International educational mobility is often perceived as westward mobility for non-English speaking learners. This study explores an increasing trend of mobility from developed countries to mainland China from ecological systematic perspectives. Draw... Read More about Understanding international postgraduate students’ educational mobility to China: an ecological systematic perspective.

The trust deficit in England: emerging research evidence about school leaders and the pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
Thomson, P., Greany, T., & Martindale, N. (2021). The trust deficit in England: emerging research evidence about school leaders and the pandemic. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 53(3-4), 296-300. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2021.1975366

Limited research has assessed the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on school leaders specifically. Working together with England's two leader associations, we designed and conducted a national survey of almost 1500 leaders in summer 2021 to assess th... Read More about The trust deficit in England: emerging research evidence about school leaders and the pandemic.

‘You just feel more relaxed’: An Investigation of Art Room Atmosphere (2021)
Journal Article
Thomson, P., & Hall, C. (2021). ‘You just feel more relaxed’: An Investigation of Art Room Atmosphere. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 40(3), 599-614. https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12370

Art educators are increasingly interested in the affective dimensions of pedagogy. This paper contributes by exploring students' reports of feeling more relaxed and less stressed in the art room, data drawn from a three year study of thirty arts rich... Read More about ‘You just feel more relaxed’: An Investigation of Art Room Atmosphere.