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Dr Paul Ashwin

Senior Lecturer

Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Higher Education Research and Evaluation, Centre for Social Justice and Wellbeing in Education

Current Teaching

I currently convene and teach the 'Researching Learning, Teaching and Assessment' module on the Doctoral Programme in Educational Research.

Research Interests

My research interests are focused on teaching, learning, and assessment in higher education. My recent book 'Analysing Teaching-Learning Interactions in Higher Education' focuses on ways of conceptualising teaching-learning processes in higher education that support a consideration of both structure and agency. Following on from the work in this book, I am examining the relations between theory and method in research into higher education. I have recently completed an Economic and Social Research Council funded project looking at pedagogic quality and inequality in undergraduate Sociology degrees. This project focused on comparing the quality of teaching, learning and curricula in undergraduate sociology and allied subjects in four universities that have different reputations for the quality of the undergraduate experience that they offer. The study aimed to question the assumptions underlying these reputations through an in-depth exploration of the relations between what students bring to university, their experiences of university education and what they gain it. We investigated what is taught, why and how; and how undergraduate students' and lecturers' experience and evaluate the curriculum and the teaching and learning environment.

I am a member of the Governing Council of the Society for Research in Higher Education and the British Educational Research Association's Online Resources Editorial Board. I am a member of the Economic and Social Research Council's Peer Review College.

Potential Doctoral Proposals

I am interested in recieving PhD proposals in most areas related to students' and academics' experiences of higher education. The research of my current and past doctoral students includes work on:

• Academics' conceptions of creativity in teaching and learning in higher education;
• The relations between art and design tutors' conceptions of their professional practice and their teaching practice;
• Threshold concepts in prosthetics and orthotics;
• Students' and tutors' experiences of learning support in higher education;
• Student identities in higher education;
• The research student experience in higher education;
• How academics experience the relations between their academic work and parenting
• Chinese students' experiences of UK higher education
• The student experience of postgraduate marketing education
• The assessment of competence
• Students' experiences of time in on-line learning environments

Career details

Before coming to Lancaster, I spent four years researching students' experiences of learning at the Institute for the Advancement of University Learning, University of Oxford and, before that, seven years implementing and researching peer learning at Newham College of Further Education.

Additional Information

Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database

Paul Ashwin has 14 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk

Ashwin, Paul (2009) Analysing teaching-learning interactions in higher education : accounting for structure and agency. Continnum, Studies in Education . Continuum, London. ISBN 9780826494184

Ashwin, Paul (2009) Conceptualising teaching and learning interactions in researching higher education. In: The Routledge International Handbook of Higher Education. Routledge, New York and London, pp. 37-46. ISBN 9780415432641

Shay, Suellen and Ashwin, Paul and Case, Jennifer (2009) A critical engagement with research into higher education : a special issue. Studies in Higher Education, 34 (4). pp. 373-375. ISSN 0307-5079

Ashwin, Paul (2008) Accounting for structure and agency in close-up research on teaching, learning and assessment in higher education. International Journal of Educational Research, 47 (3). pp. 151-158. ISSN 0883-0355

Trigwell, K. and Ashwin, P. W. H. (2006) An exploratory study of situated conceptions of learning and learning environments. Higher Education, 51 (2). pp. 243-258. ISSN 0018-1560

Ashwin, Paul (2006) Changing higher education: the development of learning and teaching. Staff and educational development series . Routledge, London. ISBN 0415341299 (pbk.)

Lindblom-Ylanne, S. and Trigwell, K. and Nevgi, A. and Ashwin, Paul (2006) How approaches to teaching are affected by discipline and teaching context. Studies in Higher Education, 31 (3). pp. 285-298. ISSN 0307-5079

Ashwin, Paul (2006) Variation in academics' accounts of tutorials. Studies in Higher Education, 31 (6). pp. 651-665. ISSN 0307-5079

Ashwin, Paul (2005) Variation in students' experiences of the Oxford tutorial. Higher Education, 50 (4). pp. 631-644. ISSN 0018-1560

Ashwin, Paul (2003) Peer Support : relations between the context, process and outcomes for the students who are supported. Instructional Science, 31 (3). pp. 159-173. ISSN 0020-4277

Associated Keywords: Classroom interaction, Communities of practice in higher education, Higher education HE, Learning, Methodology, Phenomenography, Pierre Bourdieu, Qualitative research methods, Structure and agency, Teaching and learning

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