12 results on '"Humphris, Debra"'
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2. Academic staff engagement in education for sustainable development
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Cebrián, Gisela, Grace, Marcus, and Humphris, Debra
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- 2015
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3. Strange New World: Applying a Bourdieuian Lens to Understanding Early Student Experiences in Higher Education
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Watson, Jo, Nind, Melanie, Humphris, Debra, and Borthwick, Alan
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Occupational therapy pre-registration education stands at the intersection of the fields of health and social care and higher education. UK Government agendas in both fields have seen an increase in the number of students entering with non-traditional academic backgrounds, a group noted to experience particular challenges in negotiating the transition to, and persisting and succeeding within, higher education. Drawing on data from an ongoing longitudinal case study, a Bourdieuian lens is applied to exploring the early educational experiences of a group of these students during their first year of study and highlights a number of key issues, including the high-value status of linguistic capital and its relationship to understanding the rules governing practices within the learning environment, the processes via which students manage to adapt to or interestingly, to resist, the dominant culture of the field, and some of the barriers to finding a foothold and legitimate position within the new field. (Contains 1 figure and 1 table.)
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- 2009
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4. Interprofessional education: a UK perspective
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Humphris, Debra
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To review the development of interprofessional education (IPE) in the United Kingdom (UK) it is necessary to appreciate that the UK is made up of four countries: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England each with its own health and education policy although health professions are currently regulated at the UK level. For all four countries, meeting future health and social care needs is a critical need that will require the development and introduction of new roles in and across health and social care, new ways of working and as a consequence changes to the kind, content and delivery of education and training. The development and implementation of IPE in the UK therefore requires not only strategic cross-profession agreements but also understanding of the differing labour market challenges and realities within and between the four UK countries.It is evident that some progress has been made across the UK at a pre-qualifying level with the development of common learning for students from a range of health and social care professions. Programmes for qualified staff often aim to attract participants from a range of disciplines. However despite concerted efforts IPE appears still be somewhat on the margins and evidence of impact is difficult to find at scale.Rather than promoting IPE or not, maybe the questions for the next decade should be: what are the health and social care needs, what are the skills required to do this work, what therefore should the workforce look like and how should it be prepared. As Wanless (2002) noted “although the number of health care professionals is important for the capacity of the system, arguably the way the workforce is used is even more important”
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- 2011
5. The off-side trap
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Watson, Jo, Humphris, Debra, Borthwick, Alan, and Nind, Melanie
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Policies aimed at widening participation in higher education (HE) and diversifying the health and social care workforce have contributed to the changing profile of the pre-registration occupational therapy (OT) student population in the UK. In 2005, 67% of the intake was mature, aged 21 years or older (College of Occupational Therapists 2007), and increasing numbers are entering with ‘non-traditional’ academic backgrounds. Together with students from minority ethnic groups and working class backgrounds, this could be perceived to constitute the ‘masses’ in the UK move away from its historically elite model (Leathwood and O’Connell 2003). However, with much of the expansion in UK student numbers driven by school-leavers aged 18–21 (Elliott 2003) and those from more affluent families (Franklin 2006), participation has increased to a greater extent than it has widened. In the absence of significant challenges to the dominant hegemony, the broad HE environment has not changed dramatically, and it is evident that many of the challenges faced by students from non-traditional backgrounds stem from HE’s long-established culture, which generally remains oriented towards the traditional white middle-class student (Archer 2003).A valuable framework for exploring the experiences of students who enter HE is provided by Bourdieu’s key conceptual tools. The degree of fit between an individual student’s ‘habitus’ and their portfolio of ‘capital’ and the taken-for-granted practices and ‘rules of the game’ inherent in the new ‘field’ of HE they enter can have a marked influence on the nature of the learning experience and the learner identities they develop. These concepts underpinned the analysis of data emerging from a longitudinal, instrumental case study that explored the educational experiences of students with non-traditional academic backgrounds throughout their studies on an undergraduate OT programme within one of the UK’s research intensive universities. This paper draws on examples from amongst the study’s thirteen participants to illustrate the challenges encountered by students as they learn how to play ‘the game’ and how to present knowledge and understanding in the ‘legitimate’ form recognised and accepted by the field. It illuminates student experiences in a powerful way by highlighting the impact on learner, and even personal, identities bought to bear by varying degrees of congruence between individual habitus and the dominant culture of a specific HE institution
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- 2010
6. Theorising interprofessional pedagogic evaluation: framework for evaluating the impact of interprofessional CPD on practice change
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Payler, Jane, Meyer, Edgar, and Humphris, Debra
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This paper outlines the development of a conceptual framework to guide the evaluation of the impact of the pedagogy employed in continuing professional development for professionals in education, health and social care. The work is developed as part of the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning: Interprofessional Learning across the Public Sector (CETL: IPPS) at the University of Southampton. The paper briefly outlines the field for pedagogic research and comments on the underpinning theories that have so far been used to guide research into interprofessional learning (IPL). It maps out the development of interprofessional CPD in its specific context as part of the CETL: IPPS with its links to a local authority undergoing service reorganisation and the role of the continuing professional development (CPD) in effecting change. It then brings together a theoretical framework with the potential toexplore, explain and evaluate the essential features of the model of pedagogy used in interprofessional CPD, in which professionals from education have for the first time been included alongside those from health and social care. The framework draws upon elements of situated learning theory, Activity Theory and Dreier’s work (2002, 1999) on trajectories of participation, particularly Personal Action Potency. By combining the resulting analytic framework with an adapted version of an established evaluation model, a theoretically-driven, practicable evaluation matrix is developed. The matrix has potential use in evaluating the impact of pedagogic input on practice change. The paper models a process for developing a conceptual framework to steer pedagogic evaluation. Such a process and the resulting matrix may be of use to other researchers who are similarly developing pedagogic evaluation.
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- 2007
7. Leadership evaluation: an impact evaluation of a leadership programme
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Humphris, Debra, Connell, Con, and Meyer, Edgar
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The HCIU and the School of Management undertook an empirical investigation into the impact of Leadership Development for NHS middle-management staff. The cohort was a cross-disciplinary mix of clinical and management personnel from 17 NHS organisations in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The research focused on evaluating the impact of the development intervention on the individuals and their organisations. The aims were to identify if such an intervention changes the thinking and behaviour of staff and their organisations, without losing sight of evaluating the costs and benefits of a development programme. The framework used for the evaluation was Phillips and Phillips’ modified version of Kirkpatrick’s framework for training evaluation.The results show that the intervention had a substantial impact on the individuals taking part. The participants reported improved self-confidence, more reflective and broader thinking, a heightened sense for other people’s behaviours and actions, and some participants also reported the acquisition of useful management tools to initiate and deal with change and its inherent challenges. However, the research also showed that training and development within the NHS tends to happen haphazardly rather than as an organisation-wide coordinated action. Nearly all research participants (including line-managers of the course participants) confirmed that there are rarely any mechanisms in place to support the application or integration of newly acquired knowledge and skills once back within the working environment. This was amplified by the disintegrated approach of selection and needs analysis on an organisational level before sending individuals on the programme. As the evaluated programme was part of a WDC sponsored pilot project, the cost-benefit analysis did not deliver any significant results. However, it was clear that the lack of appropriate needs analysis contributed to the lack of potential measure to assess the usefulness and benefits of such an intervention. Based on these findings the research report produced a number of recommendations for the strategic, operational, and individual levels within an organisation.
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- 2004
8. Shaping a vision for a 'New Generation' workforce
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Humphris, Debra and Macleod-Clark, Jill
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ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION - Abstract
In this paper Dr Debra Humphris and Dame Jill Macleod Clark, pioneers of the New Generation programme at Southampton University, outline the changes to the education of professionals that they believe are necessary if the healthcare workforce is to be prepared for the future. Their far-reaching recommendations highlight the need for methods of inter-professional education to be fully explored and for the wider healthcare environment to be better equipped to recieve professionals trained in new and innovative ways.
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- 2002
9. Rising to the top : a developmental-ecological case study exploring the development of underrepresented young black men in higher education
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Wilson, Bianca Sebiana Bailey, Humphris, Debra, and Irving, Lucy
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Research on the educational development of young black men and other underrepresented students has explored many areas but has overwhelmingly addressed this topic through a Bourdiesian lens, exploring the role of social inequalities and disadvantage on their education (Archer & Francis, 2007; Byfield, 2008; Dumangane, 2017; Reay, Crozier & Clayton, 2009; Rollock, 2007, 2012). While this approach is justified as Bourdieu's theory of capital (1986) provides insight into the social inequalities that exist in society, it does little to highlight the role of the individual on their development (Bronfenbrenner, 1979, 2005) and how their sense of agency, their efficacy and their motivations influence their engagement and experiences (Deci & Ryan, 2000). This thesis sought to address this, investigating black male educational development from a developmental-ecological viewpoint (Bronfenbrenner, 2005). Through an instrumental case study evaluation (Stake, 1995) of the Amos Bursary, a charitable organisation supporting underprivileged young black men from London, this study drew on US research (Renn et al., 2003; Renn & Arnold, 2003; Arnold, Lu & Armstrong, 2012) to explore the relationship between the developing young black man and their environment on their educational and career development. Moving away from the metanarrative of young black men as underachievers towards one where achievement and success are possible (Harper, 2012), this study used mixed qualitative methods such as graphic methods (Bagnioli, 2009) and participatory evaluation methods (Douthwaite et al., 2008) to explore the role of the environment in supporting young black men to become hopeful for the future (Little, Snyder & Wehemeyer, 2006) and to become more competent in their ability to navigate the system (Renn & Arnold, 2003; Bronfenbrenner, 2001b). It concludes with the presentation of DETUS (Developmental-Ecological-Theory for Underrepresented -Students), a theory for positive underrepresented student development that can be used by professionals and researchers to support more students to achieve their goals.
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- 2018
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10. An action research approach for embedding education for sustainability in university undergraduate curriculum
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Cebrian Bernat, Gisela, Grace, Marcus, and Humphris, Debra
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378 ,HM Sociology ,LB2300 Higher Education ,LB2361 Curriculum - Abstract
Research on sustainability in higher education has tended to focus on environmental management of university estates and operations, and case studies and examples of good practice, without presenting the coherent theoretical or methodological approaches required to look at the change processes of universities seeking to embed sustainability. Although the value and contribution of university initiatives has been articulated, little holistic and structural transformation of universities has been achieved so far. This doctoral research aimed to examine organisational learning and change processes to build education for sustainability into the university curriculum by developing its theoretical basis, and by developing qualitative methodology. The original contributions to knowledge of this doctoral thesis are the exploration of organisational learning processes towards sustainability in higher education, the exploration of action research as a research method to foster organisational learning towards sustainability, and the development of an evidence-based model on how to embed education for sustainability in the undergraduate curriculum at the University of Southampton. The integration of different theoretical approaches to organisational learning such as organisational learning theory, the idea of expansive learning at work, the learning organisation ideal and transformative learning theory provide the theoretical foundations for this study. Therefore contributing to the understanding of how individuals in organisations can transform their mental models in order to change current practice leading to organisational learning towards sustainability in higher education. At a methodological level, an action research approach guided by participatory and emancipatory approaches was used. The researcher aimed to learn from real practice through acting as a facilitator for curriculum development in education for sustainability within an interdisciplinary group of academic staff members. A critical friend position was acquired within a community of practice to implement a programme which attempted to embed sustainability within the student experience. An evidence-based model (the I3E Model) has been developed with four overarching components that can support the University of Southampton in its aim to embed education for sustainability within the undergraduate curriculum. These integrated components are: Inform the university community about sustainability; Engage the different university stakeholders in the change process towards sustainability; Empower individuals and groups to make change happen within their sphere of influence and action; and Embed sustainability within existing university structures.
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- 2014
11. Educational experiences of occupational therapy students from non-traditional academic backgrounds
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Watson, Jo, Borthwick, Alan, Nind, Melanie, and Humphris, Debra
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610 ,LB2300 Higher Education ,RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology ,RT Nursing - Abstract
Occupational therapy (OT) pre-registration education in the United Kingdom (UK) stands at the intersection of the fields of higher education (HE) and professional practice. It is subject to various government agendas including an ongoing commitment to widening participation in HE and to diversifying the health and social care workforce to reflect modern cultural diversity. Both have contributed to a changing profile in the OT student population and in 2005, 67 percent of the intake was mature (College of Occupational Therapists, 2007b), and increasing numbers are entering with ‘non-traditional’ academic backgrounds, an umbrella term which subsumes a variety of entry qualifications. The early weeks of study in HE can prove challenging to students as they settle into the new learning environment and begin to comprehend the expectations held of them (Yorke, 2005). It has been suggested that those from non-traditional academic backgrounds may find this transition, particularly the need to take a high level of responsibility for their own learning, difficult as a result of the skills, experiences and expectations accumulated throughout their pre-entry education (Sambell and Hubbard, 2004). While small-scale studies suggest that OT students from such backgrounds are as academically successful as traditional school-leavers at graduation (Howard and Jerosch-Herold, 2000), there is little evidence offering insight into how they actually experience and negotiate the demands of their programme. Recognising that learning and teaching are embedded within the milieu in which they occur, this longitudinal research adopted a case study methodology to capture complexity and understand the issue within its natural context (Yin, 2003). In an instrumental single-case design (Stake, 1995), a neither unique nor extreme undergraduate OT programme became a vehicle for exploring the educational experiences of students with non-traditional academic backgrounds. Thirteen volunteer participants were drawn from a single cohort in one of the UK’s research intensive universities. Data were collected via initial focus groups exploring pre-entry educational experiences and expectations of studying in HE, reflective diaries recording educational experiences that participants considered significant or meaningful, and one-to-one semi-structured interviews conducted towards the end of participants’ first and third years of study which focused on exploring their learning experiences. Supplementary and contextual data were provided by analysis of institutional, school and departmental documents to provide insight into the culture and practices of the learning context and a progression routes study which considered the entry qualifications, progression and exit awards of four cohorts of OT students from a range of educational backgrounds. The nature of students’ entry qualifications or academic background were found to have no statistically significant impact on whether they passed at Level 4, 5 or 6, or achieved a ‘good’ (upper second or first class) honours degree, although male students and those from amongst the lower socio-economic groups had significantly poorer academic outcomes at all levels of analysis. Theoretical thematic analysis (Braun and Clarke, 2006) of qualitative data underpinned by Bourdieu’s (1990b) theory of practice highlighted that students’ educational experiences were much less influenced by the nature of their academic backgrounds than by the congruence of individual dispositions or habitus, born out of social provenance, with the dominant culture of the particular field of HE they had entered. Emerging codes converged to represent themes suggesting clusters of shared experience amongst some participants, while examination of each individual dataset revealed varying positional tendencies and trajectories within the field. This research highlights the important roles played by academic, linguistic, social and practice-oriented capital in the way that students developed a feel for and learned to play ‘the game’ and present knowledge and understanding in the form ‘legitimated’ by the field. Juxtaposing the nature and expectations of the new field in relation to those previously occupied by individual participants and the established habitus each brought with them helped to illuminate the situation and adds a new dimension to understanding individual experiences of learning in HE.
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- 2010
12. Rising to the top: a developmental-ecological case study exploring the development of underrepresented young black men in higher education
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Wilson, Bianca Sebiana Bailey, Humphris, Debra, Irving, Lucy, and Imperial College London
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Research on the educational development of young black men and other underrepresented students has explored many areas but has overwhelmingly addressed this topic through a Bourdiesian lens, exploring the role of social inequalities and disadvantage on their education (Archer & Francis, 2007; Byfield, 2008; Dumangane, 2017; Reay, Crozier & Clayton, 2009; Rollock, 2007, 2012). While this approach is justified as Bourdieu’s theory of capital (1986) provides insight into the social inequalities that exist in society, it does little to highlight the role of the individual on their development (Bronfenbrenner, 1979, 2005) and how their sense of agency, their efficacy and their motivations influence their engagement and experiences (Deci & Ryan, 2000). This thesis sought to address this, investigating black male educational development from a developmental-ecological viewpoint (Bronfenbrenner, 2005). Through an instrumental case study evaluation (Stake, 1995) of the Amos Bursary, a charitable organisation supporting underprivileged young black men from London, this study drew on US research (Renn et al., 2003; Renn & Arnold, 2003; Arnold, Lu & Armstrong, 2012) to explore the relationship between the developing young black man and their environment on their educational and career development. Moving away from the metanarrative of young black men as underachievers towards one where achievement and success are possible (Harper, 2012), this study used mixed qualitative methods such as graphic methods (Bagnioli, 2009) and participatory evaluation methods (Douthwaite et al., 2008) to explore the role of the environment in supporting young black men to become hopeful for the future (Little, Snyder & Wehemeyer, 2006) and to become more competent in their ability to navigate the system (Renn & Arnold, 2003; Bronfenbrenner, 2001b). It concludes with the presentation of DETUS (Developmental-Ecological-Theory for Underrepresented -Students), a theory for positive underrepresented student development that can be used by professionals and researchers to support more students to achieve their goals. Open Access
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- 2017
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