• Moving beyond the formal: developing significant networks and conversations in higher education: reflections from an interdisciplinary European project team 

  Beauchamp, Gary; Chapman, Sammy; Risquez, Angelica; Becaas, Susan; Ellis, Cheryl; Empsend, Michaël; Farr, Fiona; Hoskins, Laüra; Hustinx, Wouter; Murray, Liam; Palmaers, Steven; Spain, Sinead; Timus, Natalia; White, Melanie; Whyte, Shona; Young, Nick (Routledge Taylor & Francis, 2022)

  Conversations and networks are essential for transforming academics’ teaching practices as learning experiences (Palmer 1993). Yet, there has been little research reporting academics’ informal conversations about teaching ...
• The challenges of building a national university in a Pacific Island Country: lessons from the first ten years of Fiji National University 

  Healey, Nigel Martin (Taylor and Francis, 2022)

  Establishing a national university has been widely viewed by smaller developing countries as a means of asserting sovereignty and driving the country’s economic, social, and cultural development. This has been particularly ...
• Towards a new framework for analysing transnational education 

  Healey, Nigel Martin; Michael, Lucy (Springer, 2015)

  The well-documented growth of international student mobility has been paralleled by the emergence of so-called ‘transnational education’ (TNE), in which universities deliver their educational services to foreign students ...
• Towards a risk-based typology for transnational education 

  Healey, Nigel Martin (Springer, 2015)

  Transnational education (TNE) has been a growth area for UK universities over the last decade. The standard typology classifies TNE by the nature of the activity (i.e., distance learning, international branch campus, ...
• The end of transnational education? The view from the UK 

  Nigel Martin Healey (Taylor and Francis, 2020)

  The growth of transnational education has been a major focus of attention for the UK sector since 2010. During a period when international student recruitment has stagnated, transnational education (TNE) has been widely ...
• Transnational education and domestic higher education in Asian-Pacific host countries 

  Healey, Nigel Martin (University of Hawaii, 2017)

  Higher education globally faces a serious productivity challenge, with universities tending to pass on higher costs to students and government through higher fees, rather than systematically reengineering the way they ...
• Peers prove perfect partners: Student Peer Advisors at the University of Limerick 

  Waters, Jesse (2021)

  The University of Limerick (UL) is committed to providing excellent services to the university community it serves, particularly to new students and those transitioning from second level education. In keeping with this ...
• Taking a lead on digital literacy for students – a case study from the Library at the University of Limerick 

  Breen, Michelle; Waters, Jesse; O'Shea, Louise (Taylor and Francis, 2022)

  This study will provide some inspiration and practical insights to academic libraries and educators within tertiary education who wish to experiment with digital upskilling programmes in their institutions. 2,661 ...
• Reflections on the value of insider research as a qualitative research methodology 

  Healey, Nigel Martin (SAGE Publications, 2017)

  This case study reflects on the lessons learned during a 15-month "insider research" project on the management of international branch campuses. The research project was a qualitative investigation into the "lived experience" ...
• Self-efficacy in the use of ICT amongst mature students 

  Padilla-Carmona, Teresa; Gil Flores, Javier; Risquez, Angelica (2022)

  Self-efficacy in the use of ICT is a key predictive variable of success for students in higher education. This study explores a range of variables related to the use of ICT by mature students  gender, age, user experience, ...
• Gene expression analysis of mouse embryonic stem cells following levitation in an ultrasound standing wave trap 

  Bazou, Despina; Kearney, Roisin; Mansergh, Fiona C.; Bourdon, Celine; Farrar, Jane; Wride, Michael A. (Elsevier, 2011)

  In the present paper, gene expression analysis of mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells levitated in a novel ultrasound standing wave trap (USWT) (Bazou et al. 2005a) at variable acoustic pressures (0.08–0.85 MPa) and times (5–60 ...
• Reflections on how librarians teach information literacy: a book review of Aston, S. and Walsh, A., 2021. Library Pedagogies: Personal reflections from library practitioners. Huddersfield: Innovative Libraries Press. 

  Breen, Michelle (Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE), 2021)

  Overview This book will help librarians to reflect on and improve their teaching to meet the contemporary needs of their learners and develop the information and digital skills of students. Librarians who teach don’t ...
• Survivin expression is associated with lens epithelial cell proliferation and fiber cell differentiation 

  Jarrin, Miguel; Mansergh, Fiona C.; Boulton, Michael E.; Gunhaga, Lena; Wride, Michael A. (2012)

  Purpose: Survivin (Birc5) is the smallest member of the inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) protein family, which regulates the cell cycle/apoptosis balance. The purpose of this study was to examine Survivin expression in the ...
• "I found that I've been free all along": Knowledge, meaning, creativity and holistic science 

  Wride, Michael A. (2015)

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• Gene expression profiles during early differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells 

  Mansergh, Fiona C.; Daly, Carl S.; Hurley, Anna L.; Wride, Michael A.; Hunter, Susan M.; Evans, Martin J. (BMC, 2009)

  Background: Understanding the mechanisms controlling stem cell differentiation is the key to future advances in tissue and organ regeneration. Embryonic stem (ES) cell differentiation can be triggered by embryoid body ...
• Apoptosis gene profiling reveals spatio-temporal regulated expression of the p53/Mdm2 pathway during lens development 

  Geatrell, Jenny C.; Gan, Peng Mui (Iryn); Mansergh, Fiona C.; Kisiswa, Lilian; Jarrin, Miguel; Williams, Llinos A.; Evans, Martin J.; Boulton, Michael E.; Wride, Michael A. (Elsevier, 2009)

  Evidence is emerging for apoptosis gene expression in the lens during development. Therefore, here we used a filter array to assess expression of 243 apoptosis-related genes in the developing postnatal mouse lens using ...
• Cellular inhibitor of apoptosis (cIAP1) is down-regulated during retinal ganglion cell (RGC) maturation 

  Kisiswa, Lilian; Albon, Julie; Morgan, James E.; Wride, Michael A. (Elsevier, 2010)

  Apoptosis, is the main type of cell death that occurs in ageing and neurodegenerative disease, such as glaucoma. This study therefore characterises the expression profile of caspases (pro-apoptosis) and inhibitors of ...
• Goethean pedagogy a case in innovative science education and implications for work based learning 

  Franses, Philip; Wride, Michael A. (Emerald Publishing Ltd, 2015)

  Purpose The purpose here is to highlight the profound learning associated with the Goethean methodology in the Holistic Science MSc at Schumacher College, Devon, U.K. This is presented as a case study in profound ...
• Science playtime 

  Wride, Michael A. (2015)

  A cold Friday in December in Dublin…as it often is, the wind is biting, blowing in from the North East off the Irish Sea, across Dublin Bay and up the River Liffey. Blustering its busy way between the buildings of Trinity ...
• Creative development of meaning in matter: reflections on a silent pilgrimage 

  Wride, Michael A.; Franses, Philip (Lifewide Education, 2015)

  Former Schumacher College lecturer, developmental biologist and complexity scientist Brian Goodwin had coined the term “Maximum freedom to the parts, maximum coherence to the whole”. This was our mantra as we began our ...

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