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Levelling the playing field: The effect of including widening participation in university league tables (2020)
Journal Article
Hubbard, K., Nattrass, S., & O'Neill, M. (2021). Levelling the playing field: The effect of including widening participation in university league tables. International Review of Education, 67, 273–304. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-020-09864-9

Universities are ranked in University League Tables (ULTs). Sustained academic criticism of the rationale and methodology of ULTs has not stopped these rankings exerting considerable pressure on the decisions of University managers. Widening Particip... Read More about Levelling the playing field: The effect of including widening participation in university league tables.

Challenging, Exciting, Impersonal, Nervous: Academic experiences of large class teaching (2020)
Journal Article
Hubbard, K., & Tallents, L. (in press). Challenging, Exciting, Impersonal, Nervous: Academic experiences of large class teaching. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 8(1), 59-73. https://doi.org/10.14297/jpaap.v8i1.405

Massification of Higher Education has resulted in a rapid increase in undergraduate populations, without an increase in the number of teaching staff. One consequence is that students are typically taught in larger classes. While the impact of class s... Read More about Challenging, Exciting, Impersonal, Nervous: Academic experiences of large class teaching.