Department of Education and Community Studies

Research output

Research output per year 1999 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2022 2023

• 285 Article
• 165 Chapter
• 41 Book
• 26 Book/Film/Dance Article review
• 94 More
  • 22 Editorial
  • 14 Commissioned report
  • 13 Conference contribution
  • 8 Other chapter contribution
  • 7 Review article
  • 5 Other report
  • 5 Other contribution
  • 4 Conference article
  • 3 Digital or Visual Products
  • 2 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
  • 2 Foreword/postscript
  • 2 Comment/debate
  • 2 Special issue
  • 2 Letter
  • 1 Meeting Abstract
  • 1 Book/Film/Article review
  • 1 Web publication/site

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2009

  Moving into practice: Transitions from further education trainee teacher to lecturer

  Avis, J. & Bathmaker, A. M., 2 Jun 2009, In: Research in Post-Compulsory Education. 14, 2, p. 203-217 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • further education 100%
  • trainee 85%
  • university teacher 66%
  • teacher 38%
  • pedagogics 31%
  7 Citations (Scopus)

• Performativity and professional development: the gap between policy and practice in the English further education sector

  Orr, K., 16 Dec 2009, In: Research in Post-Compulsory Education. 14, 4, p. 479-489 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • further education 100%
  • competitiveness 43%
  • social justice 39%
  • reform 27%
  • New Labour 26%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

• 'Renewing' England's FE colleges: an update

  Simmons, R., May 2009, Post-16 Educator, 51, p. 3-4 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• The long goodbye: How local authorities lost control of further education

  Simmons, R., Sep 2009, In: Research in Post-Compulsory Education. 14, 3, p. 287-297 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • further education 100%
  • education 23%
  • savings 15%
  • education system 12%
  • act 10%
  8 Citations (Scopus)

• Transformation or transformism: Engestrom's version of activity theory?

  Avis, J., 1 May 2009, In: Educational Review. 61, 2, p. 151-165 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • antagonism 100%
  • neglect 72%
  • economics 35%
  45 Citations (Scopus)
• 2010

  Dominant discourses of pre-service teacher education and the exigencies of the workplace: An ethnographic study from English further education

  Dixon, E., Orr, K. & Tummons, J., 2010, In: Journal of Vocational Education and Training. 62, 4, p. 381-393 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • further education 100%
  • trainee 85%
  • workplace 67%
  • discourse 49%
  • teacher 38%
  7 Citations (Scopus)

• Dual identities: The in-service teacher trainee experience in the English further education sector

  Orr, K. & Simmons, R., Mar 2010, In: Journal of Vocational Education and Training. 62, 1, p. 75-88 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • further education 100%
  • trainee 85%
  • teacher training 42%
  • teacher 38%
  • experience 28%
  45 Citations (Scopus)

• Education, Governance and the ‘New’ Professionalism: Radical Possibilities?

  Avis, J., 1 Jun 2010, In: Power and Education. 2, 2, p. 197-208 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • professionalism 100%
  • neoliberalism 100%
  • governance 67%
  • New Labour 60%
  • further education 56%
  8 Citations (Scopus)

• Everybody else does it: Young British women, safety and risk

  Jones, H., Jul 2010, In: Commonwealth Youth and Development. 8, 1, p. 37-55 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • youth worker 100%
  • sense of security 95%
  • town 58%
  • alcohol 54%
  • threat 46%

• Failed and friendless: The UK's 'preventing violent extremism' programme

  Thomas, P., Aug 2010, In: British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 12, 3, p. 442-458 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • terrorism 100%
  • radicalism 80%
  • Muslim 62%
  • anti-terrorism 50%
  • value change 48%
  108 Citations (Scopus)

• Globalisation, neo-liberalism and vocational learning: The case of English further education colleges

  Simmons, R., Dec 2010, In: Research in Post-Compulsory Education. 15, 4, p. 363-376 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • further education 100%
  • neoliberalism 88%
  • globalization 67%
  • learning 31%
  • knowledge economy 18%
  20 Citations (Scopus)

• Playing the numbers game: Connexions personal advisers working with learners on entry to employment programmes

  Russell, L., Simmons, R. & Thompson, R., Mar 2010, In: Journal of Vocational Education and Training. 62, 1, p. 1-12 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • New Labour 100%
  • further education 93%
  • government policy 79%
  • compromise 78%
  • exclusion 63%
  13 Citations (Scopus)

• Practicalities not prejudices: HE admissions and 14–19 diplomas

  Jarvis, C., 13 Dec 2010, In: Research in Post-Compulsory Education. 15, 4, p. 441-454 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • tutor 100%
  • prejudice 98%
  • education 32%
  • candidacy 16%
  • commitment 14%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Subject Specialist Mentors in the LifeLong Learning Sector: who needs them? A case study approach

  Bailey, W. & Schoch, J., 18 Mar 2010, In: Teaching in Lifelong Learning: a journal to inform and improve practice. 2, 1, 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • lifelong learning 100%
  • teacher training 91%
  • trainee 69%
  • certification 41%
  • need development 30%

• The entry of 14-16-year-old students into colleges: Implications for further education initial teacher training in England

  Orr, K., Feb 2010, In: Journal of Further and Higher Education. 34, 1, p. 47-57 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • further education 100%
  • teacher training 84%
  • trainee 24%
  • student 22%
  • learning culture 16%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

• The Macfarlane report: thirty years on

  Simmons, R., Mar 2010, Post-16 Educator, 56, p. 19-21 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
• 2011

  'Am i doing enough to help them?' learners, care work and wellbeing: Further education trainee teachers

  Avis, J., Wright, C., Fisher, P., Swindells, S. & Locke, A., 14 Mar 2011, In: Research in Post-Compulsory Education. 16, 1, p. 47-58 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • further education 100%
  • trainee 85%
  • labor 42%
  • teacher 38%
  • professionalism 29%
  6 Citations (Scopus)

• Changing directions: Young people and effective work against racism

  Thomas, P. & Henri, T., Feb 2011, In: Journal of Youth Studies. 14, 1, p. 77-89 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • racism 100%
  • multicultural society 75%
  • group cohesion 73%
  • youth work 52%
  • anti-racism 51%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Conceptualising the lives of NEET young people: structuration theory and 'disengagement'

  Russell, L., Simmons, R. & Thompson, R., 1 Nov 2011, In: Education, Knowledge and Economy. 5, 3, p. 89-106 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Darning, doylies and dancing: The work of the Leeds Association of Girls' Clubs (1904-1913)

  Jones, H. M. F., Jul 2011, In: Women's History Review. 20, 3, p. 369-388 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Leeds 100%
  • clubs 83%
  • Dancing 81%
  • Clubs 79%
  • Dance 27%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Developing Teacher Educators for the Lifelong Learning Sector: Crossing borders

  Avis, J., Fisher, R., Simmons, R., Canning, R. & Morgan-Klein, B., Nov 2011, In: Teaching in Lifelong Learning: a journal to inform and improve practice. 3, 2, p. 60-62 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• Education and training for young people at risk of becoming NEET: Findings from an ethnographic study of work-based learning programmes

  Simmons, R. & Thompson, R., Oct 2011, In: Educational Studies. 37, 4, p. 447-450 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • economic change 100%
  • learning 99%
  • political change 97%
  • tutor 90%
  • education 89%
  14 Citations (Scopus)

• Girls and gender in alternative education provision

  Russell, L. & Thomson, P., Sep 2011, In: Ethnography and Education. 6, 3, p. 293-308 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Alternative Education 100%
  • gender 25%
  • Boys 22%
  • Social Needs 16%
  • education 16%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

• More of the same? New Labour, the Coalition and education: Markets, localism and social justice

  Avis, J., 1 Nov 2011, In: Educational Review. 63, 4, p. 421-438 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Labour Party 100%
  • New Labour 95%
  • social justice 70%
  • coalition 69%
  • coalition policy 65%
  22 Citations (Scopus)

• Oakum picking in the twenty-first century

  Simmons, R., Sep 2011, Post-16 Educator, 65, p. 3-5 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

  • Employability 100%
  • Education 35%

• Ordinary lives: An ethnographic study of young people attending entry to employment programmes

  Russell, L., Simmons, R. & Thompson, R., Nov 2011, In: Journal of Education and Work. 24, 5, p. 477-499 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Employment Program 100%
  • Employability 78%
  • Education 28%
  • Labour Market 27%
  • Local Authorities 25%
  23 Citations (Scopus)

• Restrictive practice: The work-based learning experience of trainee teachers in English further education colleges

  Orr, K. & Simmons, R., May 2011, In: Journal of Workplace Learning. 23, 4, p. 243-257 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Work-based Learning 100%
  • Further Education 87%
  • further education 67%
  • Psychological Practice 64%
  • trainee 57%
  10 Citations (Scopus)

• Schools, governance and community: A next practice intervention

  Sheard, M. & Avis, J., Jan 2011, In: Educational Management Administration and Leadership. 39, 1, p. 84-104 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Local Authorities 100%
  • Governance 66%
  • governance 60%
  • Educational Achievement 35%
  • Community Engagement 35%
  13 Citations (Scopus)

• Student autonomy and awareness: vocational education and student‐centred learning in China

  Hua, Z., Harris, A. & Ollin, R., 20 May 2011, In: Journal of Vocational Education and Training. 63, 2, p. 191-203 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Vocational Education 100%
  • autonomy 69%
  • China 58%
  • occupational qualification 44%
  • learning 33%
  10 Citations (Scopus)

• Subject Specialist Mentors in the Lifelong Learning Sector: The Subject Specialist Mentor Model; is it working? A case study approach.

  Bailey, W. & Schoch, J., 18 May 2011, In: Teaching in Lifelong Learning: a journal to inform and improve practice. 3, 1, 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • lifelong learning 100%
  • trainee 92%
  • mentoring 90%
  • coaching 19%
  • teacher training 18%

• The New A Levels: A Survey of the Experience in English

  Beverton, M., Bluett, J., Cockcroft, S., Dourneen, J., Harris, A., Hodgson, J., McCarthy, M. & Snapper, G., 21 Oct 2011, English Drama Media, 21, p. 11-20 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  • regime 100%
  • experience 88%
  • questionnaire 72%
  • teacher 59%

• Unwilling citizens? Muslim young people and national identity

  Thomas, P. & Sanderson, P., Dec 2011, In: Sociology. 45, 6, p. 1028-1044 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • national identity 100%
  • Muslim 90%
  • citizen 64%
  • multicultural society 34%
  • group cohesion 33%
  48 Citations (Scopus)

• Vocational education teacher training in Scotland and England: Policy and practice

  Avis, J., Canning, R., Fisher, R., Morgan-Klein, B. & Simmons, R., Jun 2011, In: Journal of Vocational Education and Training. 63, 2, p. 115-127 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Vocational Education 100%
  • teacher training 88%
  • lifelong learning 32%
  • educator 19%
  • competitiveness 15%
  12 Citations (Scopus)
• 2012

  Coping, confidence and alienation: The early experience of trainee teachers in English further education

  Orr, K., Feb 2012, In: Journal of Education for Teaching. 38, 1, p. 51-65 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • further education 100%
  • alienation 95%
  • trainee 85%
  • coping 71%
  • confidence 69%
  24 Citations (Scopus)

• Fiction, empathy and lifelong learning

  Jarvis, C., 1 Dec 2012, In: International Journal of Lifelong Education. 31, 6, p. 743-758 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • lifelong learning 100%
  • empathy 93%
  • educator 17%
  • Adult Education 15%
  • learning 14%
  37 Citations (Scopus)

• Improving student writing at HE: putting literacy studies to work

  Hodgson, J. & Harris, A., 20 Feb 2012, In: English in Education. 46, 1, p. 8-21 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Student Writing 100%
  • Academic Writing 89%
  • Epistemology 86%
  • Literacy 68%
  • Literacy Practices 56%
  6 Citations (Scopus)

• Learning, rehabilitation and the arts in prisons: a Scottish case study

  Tett, L., Anderson, K., Mcneill, F., Overy, K. & Sparks, R., 1 Sep 2012, In: Studies in the Education of Adults. 44, 2, p. 171-185 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • correctional institution 100%
  • rehabilitation 97%
  • prisoner 85%
  • art 84%
  • literacy 40%
  34 Citations (Scopus)

• Learning from feedback? Mature students' experiences of assessment in higher education

  Tett, L., Hounsell, J., Christie, H., Cree, V. E. & McCune, V., Jun 2012, In: Research in Post-Compulsory Education. 17, 2, p. 247-260 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • university 100%
  • learning 91%
  • experience 83%
  • education 82%
  • career 69%
  10 Citations (Scopus)

• Learning to lose: weight loss classes and personal transformation

  Jarvis, C., 1 Sep 2012, In: Studies in the Education of Adults. 44, 2, p. 136-154 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • social attitude 100%
  • body image 99%
  • medical research 96%
  • self-confidence 91%
  • participation 91%

• Liberal conservatism, vocationalism and further education in England

  Fisher, R. & Simmons, R., Mar 2012, In: Globalisation, Societies and Education. 10, 1, p. 31-51 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • conservatism 100%
  • further education 99%
  • Vocational Education 56%
  • vocational education 38%
  • Organizational reform 27%
  20 Citations (Scopus)

• Raising the participation age to 18: 100 years on...

  Simmons, R., Jul 2012, Post-16 Educator, 68, p. 5-7 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

  • participation in education 100%
  • act 46%
  • participation 37%
  • education 21%

• School desegregation and the politics of 'forced integration

  Miah, S., Oct 2012, In: Race and Class. 54, 2, p. 26-38 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • segregation 63%
  • Mergers 51%
  • merger 49%
  • Pupil 44%
  • Muslim 39%
  10 Citations (Scopus)

• State intervention and teacher education for vocational educators in England and Scotland

  Avis, J., Canning, R., Fisher, R., Morgan-Klein, B. & Simmons, R., Jun 2012, In: Educational Research. 54, 2, p. 187-197 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • educator 100%
  • teacher 67%
  • education 49%
  • lifelong learning 40%
  • competitiveness 38%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• Supporting Professional Identity in Undergraduate Early Years Students through Reflective Practice

  Dyer, M. & Taylor, S. M., Aug 2012, In: Reflective Practice. 13, 4, p. 551-563 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Reflective Practice 100%
  • Student Year 90%
  • Professional Identity 85%
  • Undergraduate 64%
  • Group Discussion 42%
  7 Citations (Scopus)

• Teacher education for vocational education and training: A comparative study of the Scottish and English systems set within a European context

  Avis, J., Morgan-Klein, B., Canning, R., Simmons, R. & Fisher, R., 2012, In: Scottish Educational Review. 44, 2, p. 14-23 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• The Creative Research Process: Delights and Difficulties

  Russell, L. & Owen, N., Jun 2012, In: LEARNing Landscapes. 6, 1, p. 355-371 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • research process 100%
  • pupil 82%
  • artist 50%
  • teacher 43%
  • creativity 41%

• The transformative potential of popular television: the case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

  Jarvis, C. & Burr, V., 16 Mar 2012, In: Journal of Transformative Education. 9, 3, p. 165-182 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  15 Citations (Scopus)
• 2013

  A comparative study of awarding organisation and HEI initial teacher training programmes for the lifelong learning sector in England

  Simmons, R. & Walker, M., Jul 2013, In: Professional Development in Education. 39, 3, p. 352-368 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • organization of studies 100%
  • lifelong learning 70%
  • teacher training 64%
  • training program 56%
  • teacher 29%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• Becoming an Architect: The Role of Work-Based Learning in Architect Training

  Orr, K. & Gao, Y., Jul 2013, In: Vocations and Learning. 6, 2, p. 221-235 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • architect 100%
  • trainee 88%
  • learning 32%
  • responsibility 6%
  • participation 6%
  7 Citations (Scopus)

• Confidence, risk, and the journey into praxis: Work-based learning and teacher development

  Iredale, A., Orr, K., Bailey, W. & Wormald, J., Apr 2013, In: Journal of Education for Teaching. 39, 2, p. 197-208 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • confidence 100%
  • teacher 55%
  • learning 45%
  • lifelong learning 33%
  • trainee 30%
  8 Citations (Scopus)