NickNote-Taking Method for Journal Articles etc.Use this template to guide you. It is by no means original and is adapted from others too. Adapt as you see fit.2 min read·Apr 3, 2020----
NickIt’s not just your degree choice…In the UK for the past twenty years, it has been taken with some healthy critical distance that the massification of higher education…3 min read·Jan 23, 2020----
Nick“Race” and representation: what is the significance of these scare quotes?At the core of this article are those scare quotes around “race”. What those scare quotes signify is at glance, the refusal to take for…7 min read·Dec 6, 2019----
NickFair Access and Widening Participation are not interchangeable (and why that’s important)Widening Participation and Fair Access are not interchangeable terms (Bekhradnia, 2003): ‘[b]roadly speaking, widening participation is a…7 min read·Nov 30, 2019----
NickGroup learning/ cooperative learning: some starting pointsJacques and Salmon (2007, 23–32), say a little more about the specific properties of these groups before critically exploring and…6 min read·Nov 15, 2019----
Nick‘Is building knowledge the best way to increase literary achievement?’‘Is building knowledge the best way to increase literary achievement?’4 min read·Nov 9, 2019----
NickSocial Mobility: The Dissociative Thesis and its Disputants[For a chapter in an MA dissertation, though stand-alone and adapted here]7 min read·Nov 2, 2019----
NickReading for pleasureGender, reading identities, motivation (UK/US context)4 min read·Oct 12, 2019----
Nick‘Upwardly-mobile’ undergraduate students and mental health: a brief noteEconomic insecurity, high levels of personal debt, and similar levels of anxiety unassisted by the pressures created in an…3 min read·Jul 11, 2019----
NickOn the transmission of a ‘secret’ history in Moby-Dick’s ‘Town-Ho’s Story’A broader view of labour tensions, mutiny and the significance of ‘Town-Ho’s Story’ in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.7 min read·Jul 7, 2019----