I enjoyed delivering two papers at this year’s SRHE conference at Celtic Manor in Newport (Wales), the first of which was on my research of student assignment writing and the second on the Academics’ Writing project. The Prezi for the first one is here (unable to embed in […]
This is the second conference paper that I will be delivering at the SRHE Annual Conference this December in Newport: Being an academic: The changing writing practices of academics and how they influence professional identity Keywords: academic writing, higher education, literacies, ethnography, knowledge creation Abstract This paper explores […]
The following is the abstract to my forthcoming paper to be presented at the SRHE (Society for Research into Higher Education) Annual Conference in Newport (Wales), in December 2015. The paper extends ideas from my PhD and connects with some other recent writings. Paper title: ‘Curation’ as a […]
This is my article in The Conversation, published on July 24 2015: https://theconversation.com/whats-the-point-of-education-if-google-can-tell-us-anything-44441 It is my first media piece where I have discussed my research and some of my findings. The comments below the article are also interesting. I was concerned that some people may allow the title […]
I am pleased to announce a new publication out in the Taylor & Francis journal ‘Language and Education’. This is the third installment of a series of my Literacy-focused methods-related research papers. I have discussed the other papers in previous posts here (journal of Research in Learning Technology) […]
I am pleased to announce the open access publication of my PhD thesis. It is now available to download through this link, and directly via the White Rose repository: http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8642/ Bhatt, I (2014) A sociomaterial account of assignment writing in Further Education classrooms, PhD thesis (submitted: Nov 2014), […]
The following is a post from my project-related page: When did you first use a mouse? Send a text message? Search for something on the Web? Set up a social media profile? What caused this first usage? Was it mere inquisitiveness? Or did you have to? Can you […]