All Outputs (33)

The Ukraine Narrative - A perspective on continued professional development. (2025)
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The recent conflict in Ukraine has disrupted higher education, making continued professional development (CPD) a challenge due to displacement of educators, internet disruption, and limited access to resources. In response, the University of Salford... Read More about The Ukraine Narrative - A perspective on continued professional development..

Editorial - LTEC Post-Festival Publication (2025)
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The third annual Festival of Learning and Teaching (2-3rd September 2024) was held in Salford’s New Adelphi Building. It provided an opportunity for Salford’s learning and teaching community (L&T) community to come together to share best practice, ne... Read More about Editorial - LTEC Post-Festival Publication.

An evidence based approach to re-engaging students by re-framing support for success (2024)
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Improving student retention and engagement is a high priority for the sector. This study presents an approach adopted within a large Academic School to re-engage students who might otherwise have been withdrawn from the system. The work presented con... Read More about An evidence based approach to re-engaging students by re-framing support for success.

GLAD-HE 2003 Post-Symposium Publication (2024)
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On the back of our 2021 virtual conference ‘Responding, Reframing, Re-thinking: a new era in creative education for our sector’, GLAD (Group for Learning in Art and Design in Higher Education) launched its first post-conference special edition, publi... Read More about GLAD-HE 2003 Post-Symposium Publication.

A gathering of creative outputs as a case study for transformational change (2024)
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LTEC Post-Festival Publication: Developing Authentic Practitioners “practice”, “identity”, “community”. (2024)
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Our post-festival special edition publication is a collection of papers and audio poster from the University of Salford’s Learning and Teaching Festival 2023. The festival brought together Salford’s learning and teaching community with over 13... Read More about LTEC Post-Festival Publication: Developing Authentic Practitioners “practice”, “identity”, “community”..

University of Salford - Inclusive structures driving transformational change (2022)
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Engineers of the future (2021)
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Lockdown learning : the digital transformation of co-curricular interdisciplinary challenges (2021)
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This paper explores three-key issues related to the digital transformation of co-curricular interdisciplinary challenges within a UK higher education institution during the COVID pandemic. It is widely accepted that university graduates must be work-... Read More about Lockdown learning : the digital transformation of co-curricular interdisciplinary challenges.

Responding, reframing and re-thinking – a new era in creative education for our sector? (2021)
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Editorial for GLAD-HE Post-Conference Publication

Comparative study of calculated and actual dimensions In shaped weft knitwear. (2019)
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This research explores and quantifies the relationship between traditional mathematical theories used for the calculation of fully-fashioned, weft-knitwear and the physical measurements of knitted garments in order to improve sizing accuracy within k... Read More about Comparative study of calculated and actual dimensions In shaped weft knitwear..

A best-practice model for integrating interdisciplinarity into the higher education student experience (2017)
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Today's global society creates an environment characterised by complex problems, solutions to which require transcendence of traditional discipline-based boundaries, and new forms of knowledge-sharing. Higher education (HE) has a central role in inte... Read More about A best-practice model for integrating interdisciplinarity into the higher education student experience.

Designing functional medical products for children with cancer (2017)
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This paper details how Quality Function Deployment (QFD) has been used to develop a tactile advanced product for a medical application. Innovative experimental and industrial research was undertaken, leading to the design of a child-focused ‘Wiggle B... Read More about Designing functional medical products for children with cancer.

24 hour interdisciplinary Challenge (2016)
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Guest Editorial Second Special Edition ‘Creative Cut’ (2016)
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Best-practice model for technology enhanced learning in the creative arts (2016)
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This paper presents a best-practice model for the redesign of virtual learning environments (VLEs) within creative arts to augment blended learning. In considering a blended learning best-practice model, three factors should be considered: the consci... Read More about Best-practice model for technology enhanced learning in the creative arts.

The effectiveness of Design Thinking techniques to enhance undergraduate student learning (2016)
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Students have access to an ever-increasing quantity and diversity of information, presented to them in multiple formats; the challenge for them is to identify and use this data effectively. Many undergraduate students experience difficulties in manag... Read More about The effectiveness of Design Thinking techniques to enhance undergraduate student learning.

An exploration into technology enhanced learning for large cohorts of apparel students. (2014)
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In attempting to balance student satisfaction, individual expectations and the need to produce industry ready graduates, with the increase in student numbers a new strategy to teaching and learning was explored within the advanced apparel curriculum.... Read More about An exploration into technology enhanced learning for large cohorts of apparel students..

That which is not yet there (2014)
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In 1949 Bretton Hall College was founded as a Teacher Training College designed for the promotion of art education in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It opened with 56 students and by 1964 the college had expanded significantly resulting in an extensiv... Read More about That which is not yet there.

Reconstructing textile heritage (2014)
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This article recreates a deteriorating archive, bringing life, opportunity and growth to a collection that is in reality dying. It explores a collection owned by the National Trust at Claydon House in Buckinghamshire. Modern techniques of Infinate Fo... Read More about Reconstructing textile heritage.