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Main Outcomes and Publications 2010 to 2011 (academic year)

Publications

• 29 book chapters
• 8 journal articles.

Collaborative support and work with student researchers

• 22 sole and joint conference presentations.
• 4 joint publications with staff.
• one sole-authored article, and one keynote presentation.
• 2 joint unfunded research projects.

Working with policy and practice groups

• 5 reports for policy and practice groups.
• collaborative proposals with local authority and hospital trust groups
• advice given through invited meetings with EU, commercial and media groups
• research work undertaken directly in local authorities, hospital trusts and schools
• keynote presentations given to educational policy and practice audiences
• a conference involving practitioners.

Involvement with the wider international research community

• Presentations at a wide range of international conferences.
• collaborative proposals and networking activities with colleagues in universities in other countries, including a collaboration with the Literacy Research Centre and Department of Management Learning internally; and UBC Canada, IoE London and the OU externally, to develop a proposal to the Canadian Social Science Research Council on the topic of Literacy and the New Media.
• involvement as members and officers of international working groups.

Current projects

• A Knowledge Transfer Partnership project with the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust.
• A small-scale study of uses of handheld technologies in schools.
• A state-of-the-art report on older people and their uses of the Internet.

Past projects and studies very recently completed

• Internet safety in schools
• The learning needs of trade union educators
• Testing parameters of learning of online memorisation support software.
• Uses of technologies by migrant women.
• Uses of technologies by those who support young people who are not in employment, education and training.
• Learning and management outcomes when schools and teachers use large online resource banks.
• Impacts of virtual learning environments on learners, learning and the engagement of parents.
• Effects of enhancing digital participation of a disadvantaged community through school practices.
• Pilot study on the development of an e-learning strategy within the NHS LHT.
• Collaborative knowledge creation in distributed learning communities.
• Use of technologies for educational purposes in the NHS.
• Leadership strategies for coordinating distance education instructional development teams.
• Diversity in researching teaching and technology philosophies-in-practice in e-learning communities.
• Ethical and practical implications of systems architecture on identity in networked learning.
• An actor-network theory informed critique of mobile learning research.
• Older adults’ adoption of new communication technologies.

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