New publication: Reading through the pandemic

Graham Barrett, Jon Fitzgibbons, Michele Vescovi and myself recently had an article published in the IMPact e-journal of Higher Education Research, which is published by the University of Lincoln. In it, we reflected on our experiences of teaching students digital reading (and other!) skills during the Covid-19 pandemic. You can read the full paper here:Continue reading New publication: Reading through the pandemic

Academic Reading and Accessibility: Practices and pedagogies

In this blog post, Annabelle Mansell, one of our student researchers (and a third-year Classical Studies student at the University of Lincoln), shares what she learnt from analysing survey responses that addressed questions of accessibility. As we saw in the last blog post, students – and, to a lesser extent, staff – see accessibility asContinue reading Academic Reading and Accessibility: Practices and pedagogies

The advantages of online reading – academic and student perspectives

In this blog post, Samantha Sharman (2nd year Classical Studies student at the University of Lincoln and one of our student researchers) compares what staff and students thought were the advantages of online reading in our survey. The post forms a sort of pair with one about ‘challenges‘, published yesterday. Over the past few years,Continue reading The advantages of online reading – academic and student perspectives

The challenges of online reading – what do academics and students say?

As part of his role as a student researcher on the Active Online Reading project, Stefan Szablewski, a third year studying History at the University of Nottingham examined responses to our survey from staff and students that explored the challenges of reading. Here’s his summary of what he discovered. Reading online at university is somethingContinue reading The challenges of online reading – what do academics and students say?

Reading online in Design – findings from a student-led workshop

In this post, Hannah Morley and Linh Dao, two of our student researchers from the School of Design at Sheffield Hallam University, share the results of a series of workshops that they ran with their peers this academic year. Goals Our involvement in the Active Online Reading project prompted us to try to understand theContinue reading Reading online in Design – findings from a student-led workshop