Room 1

Sym 2

Emergent practices in teaching and learning in the UK: street level policy enactment
Murray Saunders, Lancaster University

Enacting ‘excellent practice’: mechanisms for change in the Centre for Creative Learning in Practice
Alison Shreeve, Bucks New University

Growing ‘excellence’: establishing and evolving 'networks' as a mechanism for change
Michelle Verity, York St John University

Enhancement through collegiality: variations in stakeholder experience of the Quality Enhancement Framework in Scottish Universities
Neil Lent, Lancaster University

Room 3

Paper 34

Paper 35

Paper 36

Using theory to critique practice: An interrogation of new curriculum proposals in engineering education
Jennifer Margaret Case, University of Cape Town

Working with theory to explore student experiences in a Croatian higher education setting
Karin Doolan, Institute for Social Research in Zagreb

Informal Mentoring within the Doctoral Student Process: A Situated Leaning Perspective
Maria Hadjielia Drotarova, Lancaster University

Room 4

Paper 37

Paper 38

Paper 39

A Meta-Analysis of a Review of an Academic Development Programme using a Social Realist Approach
Kathy Luckett, University of Capetown

Conditions for learning in the institutionalised life course: An inquiry into the discursive practices of communities of students-as-learners
Bjørn Friis Johannsen, University of Copenhagen

"Use what seems best": theorising the assessment of trainee teachers
Jonathan Tummons, Teesside University

Room 5

Paper 40

Paper 41

An in-depth sociological analysis of foundation programmes in South African higher education
Bruce Kloot, University of Cape Town

Constructing Students: Consumers or Participants?
Joanna Williams, University of Kent

Room 6

Paper 42

Paper 43

Paper 44

From 'wickedity' to tameness; reflections on the application of critical realism to researching higher education
Dr Karin Crawford, University of Lincoln & Dr Jennifer Wright, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa

Policy reception among academic staff: A case study of an internationalisation policy in a social science faculty
Jie Liu, Manchester Metropolitan University

The road to an appropriate theory: am I there yet?
Linda Kotta, University of Cape Town