Evaluating ‘Study Skills’: What’s the context?
Journal Article
Pilcher, N., & Richards, K. (in press)
Evaluating ‘Study Skills’: What’s the context?. Research in Post-Compulsory Education,
‘Study Skills’ in any guise are integral to Higher Education worldwide, existing to help student ‘success’. Some argue ‘generic’ or ‘bolt-on’ ‘Study Skills’ do not help with ‘...
International Academic Staff: The Roles of Languages, Cultures, and Personalities
Book
Richards, K., Pilcher, N., & Lee, G. S. J. (2024)
International Academic Staff: The Roles of Languages, Cultures, and Personalities. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58760-3
This book ​focuses on the experiences of international academic staff in higher education, particularly examining the influences of issues such as languages, cultures, and per...
English as a Lingua Franca: Intercultural Interaction in an Asian 'Third Space' Context
Journal Article
Victoria, M., Xu, F. H., & Pilcher, N. (2025)
English as a Lingua Franca: Intercultural Interaction in an Asian 'Third Space' Context. Asian Englishes, 27(1), 159-177. https://doi.org/10.1080/13488678.2024.2405278
In many studies on English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), the prevailing perspective has primarily focused on ELF as the use of English for communication among speakers who do not ...
Diversity and inclusion in UK Higher Education: staff perspectives on institutional representations and their reality
Journal Article
Richards, K., Pilcher, N., Galbrun, L., Forster, A., & Richards, J. (2023)
Diversity and inclusion in UK Higher Education: staff perspectives on institutional representations and their reality. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 28(4), 647-669. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2023.2253654
This paper examines staff perspectives on institutional representations of a range of areas of diversity and inclusion in a key post-compulsory education sector: that of UK Hi...
'Qualitative' and 'quantitative' methods and approaches across subject fields: implications for research values, assumptions, and practices
Journal Article
Pilcher, N., & Cortazzi, M. (2024)
'Qualitative' and 'quantitative' methods and approaches across subject fields: implications for research values, assumptions, and practices. Quality and Quantity, 58, 2357-2387. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-023-01734-4
There is considerable literature showing the complexity, connectivity and blurring of 'qualitative' and 'quantitative' methods in research. Yet these concepts are often repres...
Construction and Engineering Higher Education: The Role of Pracademics in Recoupling Classical Experiential Educational Norms
Book Chapter
Forster, A. M., Pilcher, N., Murray, M., Tennant, S., Craig, N., & Galbrun, L. (2023)
Construction and Engineering Higher Education: The Role of Pracademics in Recoupling Classical Experiential Educational Norms. In J. Dickinson, & T.-L. Griffiths (Eds.), Professional Development for Practitioners in Academia: Pracademia (211-227). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33746-8_15
This chapter considers the development of construction and engineering education that historically chartered an increasingly decoupled trajectory from being practical in natur...
Using Rubrics as Feedforward Tools for Subject Contextualized Dialogue
Book Chapter
Richards, K., & Pilcher, N. (2023)
Using Rubrics as Feedforward Tools for Subject Contextualized Dialogue. In C. Gonsalves, & J. Pearson (Eds.), Improving Learning Through Assessment Rubrics: Student Awareness of What and How They Learn (229-247). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6086-3.ch013
This chapter outlines an approach to using rubrics in a feedforward process using dialogue between teachers and students that takes place before students hand in their assignm...
Developing critical intercultural competence through understanding the location, product and processes of dialogue
Book Chapter
Pilcher, N., & Zhou, V. X. (2022)
Developing critical intercultural competence through understanding the location, product and processes of dialogue. In M. Sommier, A. Roiha, & M. Lahti (Eds.), Interculturality in Higher Education: Putting Critical Approaches into Practice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003322702-3
The idea of ‘intercultural competence’ (ICC) has been beset by tension between training models presenting culture as understood through ‘nation’ based constructs, and countera...
Enhancing Student Support in Higher Education: A Subject-Focused Approach
Book
Pilcher, N., & Richards, K. (2022)
Enhancing Student Support in Higher Education: A Subject-Focused Approach. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81724-4
This book is about supporting students in Higher Education using language, and specifically using a combination of written text based linguistic approaches alongside and with ...
Political and technical complexities of electronic toll collection: Lessons from Taiwan
Journal Article
Tseng, P., & Pilcher, N. (2022)
Political and technical complexities of electronic toll collection: Lessons from Taiwan. Case Studies on Transport Policy, 10(1), 444-453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cstp.2022.01.005
Traditional manual toll collection (MTC) imposes a significant queue length near toll plazas and results in road users delay (travel time loss), administration, fuel consumpti...