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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. A video of, and slides from, a Departmental Seminar on the early stages of this work are available. Related to this research interest, I organised the Higher Education Close-Up 5 Conference from 20-22nd July 2010 at Lancaster. The theme was 'Questioning Theory Method Relations in Higher Education Research' and further details can be found on the conference website

My current research projects include an Economic and Social Research Council funded project looking at pedagogic quality and inequality in undergraduate Sociology degrees.

I am a member of British Educational Research Association's Online Resources Editorial Board and am convener of the Society for Research in Higher Education's Higher Education Close-Up Network. 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;
• The pedagogic discourse of nursing;
• Threshold concepts in prosthetics and orthotics;
• Midwives use of a personal learning system to support their continuing professional development after graduation;
• How the practices of nurse educators structure the curriculum;
• 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
• Conceptions of mathematics of primary initial teacher training students
• Academics' conceptions of the first year experience in higher education
• Students' experiences of time in on-line learning environments
• Dyslexic students' experience of supportive technologies in higher education

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.

In the department I run a reading group on Teaching and Learning Cultures. This group meets twice a term to discuss an article focused on teaching and learning in any sector of education. Please contact me if you would like to join this reading group.

I am currently Chair of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Committee on Ethics in Research and a member of the University Research Ethics Committee.

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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