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The Varsity Drag: Gender, Sexuality and Cross-Dressing at the University of Cambridge, 1850-1950 (2021)
Journal Article
Janes. (2022). The Varsity Drag: Gender, Sexuality and Cross-Dressing at the University of Cambridge, 1850-1950. Journal of Social History, 55(3), 695-723. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shab069

The records of student societies show that cross-dressing was a very popular practice at Cambridge University from the second half of the nineteenth century not only in drama but at a wide range of social events. Male and female students were segrega... Read More about The Varsity Drag: Gender, Sexuality and Cross-Dressing at the University of Cambridge, 1850-1950.

Inclusivity in Module Design and Assessment Methods in the Humanities (2021)
Journal Article
Brill. (2021). Inclusivity in Module Design and Assessment Methods in the Humanities. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/9zh0-x347

This article will evaluate the inclusivity of design and assessment methods of AMS 30043: Violence and Power in Antebellum America. This module explores issues of power and belonging from the end of the American Revolution to the American Civil War.... Read More about Inclusivity in Module Design and Assessment Methods in the Humanities.

Developing Graduate Skills through Studying Seventeenth-Century Literature: Some Reflections (2020)
Journal Article
Adcock. (2020). Developing Graduate Skills through Studying Seventeenth-Century Literature: Some Reflections. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/kd1t-g977

This paper advocates for the use of learner-centred teaching activities and enquiry-based assessment through reflection on the organisation of a FHEQ Level 5 seventeenth-century English literature module. While English is a subject where, traditional... Read More about Developing Graduate Skills through Studying Seventeenth-Century Literature: Some Reflections.

Integrating Video Content into Humanities Teaching: a case study (2020)
Journal Article
Kistler, J., & Shears, J. (2020). Integrating Video Content into Humanities Teaching: a case study. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/bj37-7330

Screencasts and other video content offer an innovative means of improving communication between tutors and students and addressing student concerns about limited contact hours, which can be particularly pressing in English Literature. Our students’... Read More about Integrating Video Content into Humanities Teaching: a case study.

Quantitative methods in the social sciences (2019)
Book Chapter
Parker. (in press). Quantitative methods in the social sciences. In A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Enhancing Academic Practice, 5th ed. (5th). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Book chapter.

Web-based student response systems and peer instruction: a review and case study (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Web-based student response systems and peer instruction: a review and case study. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/41wc-kt98

Cooperative learning and peer instruction are well documented pedagogies that engage students in their learning process. The means to implement cooperative learning in the classroom have evolved from raised hands, colored flashcards, student response... Read More about Web-based student response systems and peer instruction: a review and case study.

Using Kolb's Learning Cycle as a Basis for Seminar-Structuring in English Literature (2019)
Journal Article
Yearling. (2019). Using Kolb's Learning Cycle as a Basis for Seminar-Structuring in English Literature. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/eza9-7a41

This paper explores how Kolb’s experiential learning cycle can be used as a way of structuring seminars in English literature in order to bring students towards a greater understanding of literary texts. Using the example of teaching Lord Byron’s poe... Read More about Using Kolb's Learning Cycle as a Basis for Seminar-Structuring in English Literature.

Class Participation Marks and Gender in the Humanities Seminar (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Class Participation Marks and Gender in the Humanities Seminar. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/vxyp-yt74

Within the Humanities, female students tend to receive lower class participation marks, despite being in the majority within the Humanities’ student body. Research suggests a number of reasons for this disparity, often going back to early childhood s... Read More about Class Participation Marks and Gender in the Humanities Seminar.

Interconnected motions: agency of information in culture and learning (Virtual Mythology) (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Interconnected motions: agency of information in culture and learning (Virtual Mythology). The Journal of Academic Development and Education, 9-16. https://doi.org/10.21252/KEELE-0000016

The aim of this paper is to begin to explore and understand the agency and mythology of the objectification of information in culture and learning within the digital domain. Georg Simmel (1910-11) defines the nature of culture as "the cultivation of... Read More about Interconnected motions: agency of information in culture and learning (Virtual Mythology).

Young women and further education: a case study of young women's experience of caring courses in a local college
Thesis
Skeggs, B. E. (1986). Young women and further education: a case study of young women's experience of caring courses in a local college

This is an ethnographic account of 83 young women on caring courses at a local Further Education college. It represents an attempt to understand and explain how these students experience the institutional parameters of Further Education. It also repr... Read More about Young women and further education: a case study of young women's experience of caring courses in a local college.