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Towards sustainable assessment formats in language teaching: testing integrated skills with portfolio-based tasks (2024)
Journal Article
Coderch, M., & Lewis, L. (2024). Towards sustainable assessment formats in language teaching: testing integrated skills with portfolio-based tasks. Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 1, 87-96. https://doi.org/10.62512/etlhe.2

In this paper, we share our experience of using portfolio-based tasks to assess integrated skills in German and Spanish language modules at level C1. The modules, delivered during the academic year 2022-23, are part of the institution-wide language p... Read More about Towards sustainable assessment formats in language teaching: testing integrated skills with portfolio-based tasks.

Developing interactive multimedia learning materials for chemistry pre-lab training (2024)
Journal Article
Fern, N., & Milian, J. L. (2024). Developing interactive multimedia learning materials for chemistry pre-lab training. Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 1, 74-86. https://doi.org/10.62512/etlhe.7

This article is a progress update on a project investigating the impact of embedding interactive pre-lab materials into the preparation resources for 2nd year undergraduate students in an organic chemistry practical module. Materials were developed... Read More about Developing interactive multimedia learning materials for chemistry pre-lab training.

Performance Evaluation of Segment Anything Model with Variational Prompting for Application to Non-Visible Spectrum Imagery (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Gaus, Y. F. A., Bhowmik, N., Isaac-Medina, B. K. S., & Breckon, T. P. (in press). Performance Evaluation of Segment Anything Model with Variational Prompting for Application to Non-Visible Spectrum Imagery.

Associations between autistic traits, depression, social anxiety and social rejection in autistic and non-autistic adults (2024)
Journal Article
Gurbuz, E., Riby, D. M., South, M., & Hanley, M. (2024). Associations between autistic traits, depression, social anxiety and social rejection in autistic and non-autistic adults. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 9065. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-59532-3

Autistic people frequently experience negative judgements from non-autistic people, often fuelled by misconceptions that autistic people lack empathy. Understanding responses to negative social judgement among autistic people is crucial because of th... Read More about Associations between autistic traits, depression, social anxiety and social rejection in autistic and non-autistic adults.

Meta-Practices: The Role of Ecosystems Actors in Social Innovation (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Hughes, J., Pitsis, T., Leighton, M., & Bhatia, K. (2024, April). Meta-Practices: The Role of Ecosystems Actors in Social Innovation. Paper presented at 9th Annual Entrepreneurship as Practice Conference 2024, Leeds

In this paper, we theorise the role that multiple actors play in the formation of new practices and the transformation of old practices to produce social innovation. In doing so we apply and extend the practice lens to explain how ‘social innovating’... Read More about Meta-Practices: The Role of Ecosystems Actors in Social Innovation.