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Cochrane Review Summary : psychosocial and psychological interventions for preventing postpartum depression
(2014-07)To assess the effectiveness of specific psychosocial and psychological interventions in reducing the risk of postpartum depression in mothers and their families. To examine the influence of variations in intervention types, ... -
Cochrane Review Summary : Massage for promoting mental and physical health in typically developing infants under the age of six months
(2015-01)Is infant massage effective in promoting infant physical and mental health in a healthy population aged under six months? -
Cochrane review summary : smartphone and tablet self-management apps for asthma
(2015-04)Are smartphone and tablet computer apps feasible, effective and cost-effective tools for the self-management of individuals with asthma? -
Cochrane review summary : Face-to-face interventions for informing or educating parents about early childhood vaccination
(2014-10)Are face-to-face interventions for informing or educating parents about early childhood vaccination effective on immunisation uptake and parental knowledge? -
Lessons learnt from literature on the diffusion of innovative learning and teaching practices in higher education
(2012)Faced with the challenges of the changes in higher education, educational developers’ roles, and the use of innovation to stimulate change, this study aimed to synthesise literature dealing with the diffusion of innovative ... -
Overseas flying faculty teaching as a trigger for transformative professional development
(2013)In earlier work, I proposed that flying faculty teaching, where home institution academics teach for short, intense periods in host countries, could foster transformative professional development. In the present article, ... -
The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework : what’s academic practice got to do with it?
(2014-06)National Qualifications Frameworks (NQF) are a globally established and expanding phenomenon. They are increasingly merging and being mapped onto meta-qualifications frameworks. One key NQF in both these roles is the ... -
Acknowledging the affective in higher education
(2007-04)This article argues that we need richer conceptions of students as affective and embodied selves and a clearer theorisation of the role of emotion in educational encounters. These areas are currently under‐researched and ... -
Transnational teaching experiences : an under‐explored territory for transformative professional development
(2009)In an increasingly global higher education environment, many universities are taking their educational services overseas. One model of overseas provision is through transnational (offshore) education. Transnational teaching ... -
‘Who do you think you’re talking to?’ : the discourse of learning and teaching strategies
(2008-10)As part of the ongoing enhancement and assurance of quality in the UK higher education sector, universities have been required by the Higher Education Funding Council of England to prepare learning and teaching strategies ... -
Learning, teaching and assessment strategies in higher education : contradictions of genre and desiring
(2010)This paper presents an analysis of ethnographic data collected by researchers as part of the process of rewriting an institutional learning and teaching strategy in an English university. The research was driven by a desire ... -
Assuring quality in transnational higher education : a matter of collaboration or control?
(2010)As transnational education collaborations increase so too do concerns about the quality of provision. To address these concerns, national codes of good practice have been written to guide exporting institutions on how to ... -
Cultivating innovative learning and teaching cultures : a question of garden design
(2011)Calls for practitioners to ‘innovate’ are common within higher education and universities, which go to some length to cultivate innovative learning and teaching cultures. The definition of innovation, however, is not clear ... -
The challenges of reflection : students learning from work placements
(2007)The importance of employability in higher education and increasing numbers of students working while studying led leaders on a social science degree to introduce work experience modules. This paper reports on an in‐depth ... -
Critical discourse analysis and higher education research
(Emerald Publishing, 2013)This chapter explores the use of critical discourse analysis (CDA) within higher education research. CDA is an approach to studying language and its relation to power, ideology and inequality. Within CDA, texts are not ... -
Action Research
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Qualitative data analysis
(SAGE Publications, 2010)