Brennan, J, Edmunds, R, Jary, D, Houston, M, Lebeau, Y, Osborne, M, ...
Drawing on the findings of the SOMUL project, this book examines ‘what is really learned at university’ and how much the social and organisational factors influence on shaping these outcomes. It...
Brennan, J, Edmunds, R, Houston, M, Jary, D, Lebeau, Y, Osborne, M, ...
What is learned in universities today? Is it what students expect to learn? Is it what universities say they learn? How far do the answers to questions such as these differ according to what, where...
Tracking transition: issues in asynchronous e-mail interviewing (2008)
Drawing on data collected for the SOMUL project, the paper, firstly, concerns the methodological issues involved with tracking a mobile population, namely students graduating from university....
Brennan, J, Edmunds, R, Houston, M, Jary, D, Lebeau, Y, Little, B, ...
This project was intended to increase our understanding of the learning outcomes of an increasingly diverse higher education system via an examination of the conceptions of learning, and of...
Field, J, Malcolm, I, Osborne, M, Houston, M
Age-related inequalities in access to adult learning are widely recognised. However, most studies have focussed on chronological age groups, and relatively little previous research has considered the...
To those that have shall be given? Differing expectations of support among dyslexic students (2007)
Weedon, E, Riddell, S, Osbourne, M, Houston, M, Toman, N
This chapter explores the learning experiences of dyslexic students in four different universities. It examines similarities and differences between the four institutions, both in terms of student...
Edmunds, R, Houston, M, Watkins, R, Osborne, M, Houston, M, Toman, N
A chapter from a book on the pedagogy of lifelong learning and teaching in the international context. It presents an overview of the SOMUL project that explores how the social and organisational...
Researching literacy for learning in the vocational curriculum, chapter 7, pp 79-89 (2007)
Carmichael, J, Edwards, R, Miller, K, Smith, J, Osborne, M, Houston, M, ...
This chapter starts by mapping out the theoretical and methodological terrain of the literacies for Learning in Further Education project, and giving two extended examples of the sort of data...
The social mediation of university learning - Working Paper 3 (2006)
This is the third paper in a series of Working Papers to disseminate information about the SOMUL project. It focuses on the social mediation of learning and explores how the social interactions...
Stone, I., Braidford, P., Houston, M.
Research commissioned to take forward William Sargent's initiative to investigate the type of training undertaken by firms in the Sunday Times list of 'the best 50 small and medium sized enterprises...
The social mediation of university learning (2005)
The paper was presented at the Social and Organisational Mediation of University Learning (SOMUL) project research seminar. The social mediation of the learning experience touches a large range of...
Biosciences: an overview of undergraduate studies in the UK (2005)
An overview of undergraduate education in the Biosciences in the UK, which is prepared as part of the SOMUL (Social and Organisational Mediation of University Learning) project. It includes, firstly...