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Lambert, Louise and Griffin, Stephen and French, Amanda (2023) Teachers’ creative, critical, and agentic professional learning in liminal spaces. Professional Development in Education. ISSN 1941-5257

French, Amanda and Lambert, Louise and Nguyễn, Thi Hong Minh and Tran, Yen (2023) The role of policy reform in developing teacher educator professional competencies and identities in Vietnam: implications, tensions and possibilities. Practice: Contemporary Issues in Practitioner Education. ISSN 2578-3866

Khatun, Fatema and French, Amanda and Smith, Rob (2021) Reconceptualising student experiences: exploring embodiment and identity through differential higher education space. Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change, 7 (1). ISSN 2055-4990

Cui, Vanessa and French, Amanda and O'Leary, Matt (2019) A missed opportunity? How the UK’s teaching excellence framework fails to capture the voice of university staff. Studies in Higher Education. ISSN 0307-5079

French, Amanda (2019) Academic writing as identity-work in higher education: Forming a ‘professional writing in higher education habitus’. Studies in Higher Education. ISSN 0307-5079

French, Amanda (2019) Academic writing as identity-work in higher education: forming a ‘professional writing in higher education habitus’. Studies in Higher Education.

Amanda, French (2018) Academic Writing: Anxiety, Confusion and the Affective Domain: Why Should Subject Lecturers Acknowledge the Social and Emotional Aspects of Writing Development Processes? Journal of Academic Writing, 8 (2). pp. 202-211. ISSN 2030-1006

Kendall, Alex and French, Amanda (2018) Re-thinking employability with a literacies lens: from skills to practices, from tool-kits to ethnography. Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 8 (2). pp. 164-178. ISSN 20423896 (ISSN)

Kendall, Alex and French, Amanda and Kempson, Michelle (2018) ‘How will i know when i’m ready?’ re-imagining FE/HE ‘transitions’ as collaborative identity work. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 23 (1). pp. 41-56. ISSN 1359-6748

French, Amanda and Lowe, Rose and Nassem, Elizabeth (2017) Children participating as researchers in primary schools: what’s in it for the teachers? Education 3-13. pp. 1-14. ISSN 0300-4279

French, Amanda and Kendall, Alex (2017) Getting lost (and found) in supervision: an ethnodrama. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 8 (1). pp. 2-14. ISSN 2398-4686

French, Amanda and Hobbs, Dinah (2017) ‘”So how well did it really go”? Working with primary school pupils as project evaluators: a case study’. TEAN Journal, 9 (1). pp. 56-65. ISSN 2054-5266

French, Amanda (2016) ‘Fail better’: Reconsidering the role of struggle and failure in academic writing development in higher education. Journal of Innovations in Education and Teaching International.

French, Amanda (2013) 'Let the Right Ones In!': Widening Participation, Academic Writing and the Standards Debate in Higher Education. Power and Education, 5 (3). pp. 236-247. ISSN 1757-7438

French, Amanda (2012) ‘There are more questions than answers and the more I find out, the less I know’: dilemmas in qualitative educational research. Educational Futures Journal, 4 (3). pp. 3-17. ISSN 1758-2199

French, Amanda (2011) ‘What am I Expecting and Why?’ How can Lecturers in Higher Education Begin to Address Writing Development for their Students? Journal of Academic Writing, 1 (1). pp. 228-238. ISSN 2225-8973

French, Amanda and Worsley, Jenny (2009) Double-entry journals: developing an embedded programme of writing development for first year Early Childhood Studies degree students. Enhancing Learning in the Social Sciences, 2 (2). pp. 1-26. ISSN 1756-848X

Book Section

O'Leary, Matt and Armstrong, Tony and Birmingham, Victoria and French, Amanda and Kendall, Alex and O'Hara, Mark and Vigurs, Katy (2022) Rethinking quality and excellence in teaching and learning in higher education. In: Transformation Fast and Slow Digitalisation: Quality and Trust in Higher Education. Higher Education: Linking Research, Policy and Practice (3). Brill. ISBN 9789004520912

Brogan, Andrew J (2020) Diversity Deficits: Resisting the TEF. In: Challenging the Teaching Excellence Framework: Diversity Deficits in Higher Education Evaluations. Great Debates in Higher Education . Emerald Publishing, Bingley. ISBN 9781787695368

French, Amanda (2020) 'It's not what you do, or how well you do it, but who you are': Can student evaluations ever deliver a fair assessment on teaching excellence in higher education? In: Challenging the Teaching Excellence Framework: Diversity Deficits in Higher Education Evaluations. Great Debates in Higher Education . Emerald. ISBN 9781787695368

French, Amanda (2019) Anxiety and Academic Writing. In: The Inclusivity Gap. Inspired by Learning, on line.

Amanda, French (2015) Exploring Postgraduate Academic Writing Practices and Identities. In: Post/graduate Writing Pedagogies and Research Literacies in the 21stCentury. Brill Publishing, Amsterdam:Holland. ISBN 9789004304338

French, Amanda (2015) Exploring Post/Graduate Academic Writing Practices, Research Literacies and Writing Identities. In: Research Literacies and Writing Pedagogies for Masters and Doctoral Writers. Studies in Writing, 31 . Brill, pp. 113-131. ISBN 9789004304321

Monograph

Smith, Rob and French, Amanda and Garbett, Georgina (2023) The impact of the Aimhigher Plus partnership: stakeholders’ perspectives. Project Report. Birmingham City University, Birmingham.

O'Leary, Matt and Cui, Vanessa and French, Amanda (2019) Understanding, recognising and rewarding teaching quality in higher education: an exploration of the impact and implications of the Teaching Excellence Framework. Project Report. University and College Union, London.

Kendall, Alex and French, Amanda and Kempson, M (2015) Good Transitions Lessons from the Transitions West Midlands Project. Project Report. QAA.

Book

French, Amanda (2022) A Philosophical Approach to Perceptions of Academic Writing Practices in Higher Education: Through a Glass Darkly. Routledge, London. ISBN 9780367209940

Carruthers Thomas, Kate and French, Amanda, eds. (2020) Challenging the Teaching Excellence Framework: Diversity Deficits in Higher Education Evaluations. Emerald Publishing Group. ISBN 9781787695368

O'Leary, Matt and French, Amanda (2017) Teaching Excellence in Higher Education - Challenges, Changes and the Teaching Excellence Framework. Great Debates in Higher Education . Emerald Publishing. ISBN 9781787147621

Thesis

Bowen, Clair (2024) An Exploration of ‘Evental Learning’: a New Pedagogical Approach to the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Salh, Sukhwinder (2023) What do the experiences of ASAW reveal about the role of networks in pursuing career opportunities in the field of Higher Education? Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Begum, Sarya (2023) Practitioners’ Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Inclusion of Children with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities [SEND] in a Primary Mainstream School. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Hill, Joanne (2021) Growing Your Own: The Impact of School Direct on the Training of Primary Teachers. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Bolton, Christopher J. (2020) Because of you, this is me: An Auto ethnographic study of drama in practice. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Lowe, Rose (2019) Cartographies of Practices in Research with Children. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

French, Amanda (2014) Through a glass darkly: a post-qualitative case study into perceptions of academic writing practices in higher education. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.