How to successfully finish a PhD?

Completing a PhD is a long and challenging journey. Many PhD candidates start that journey full of enthusiasm, but lose direction and motivation along the way. Often, this loss of momentum happens because they, like their supervisors, focus too much on the content and neglect the process.

This travel guide teaches you how to successfully navigate the PhD process so that you can enjoy the journey more and reach your destination with better results and in good ...

The essential guide to teaching and learning in higher education for anyone in teaching and learning support roles at university, including early career academics, postgraduate researchers and graduate teaching assistants.

Our world has changed a great deal since we first (or last) designed education. The current educational setting – a bunch of students in a classroom, at a set time and place, with one teacher sharing their knowledge as an omniscient authority – is still very much the same as it was a century ago.

In the Netherlands, the educational landscape provides, at least in theory, a great deal of freedom for schools to transform the contemporary learning environment as well as our vision of learnin...

Classically, regulation targets human behavior. In an era of Big Data, artificial intelligence, and robotics which shape and sometimes even replace human behavior, however, the classic regulatory paradigm is challenged in fundamental ways. This research program aims to map, understand, and – to the extent possible – help shape the shift from a human-centric regulatory paradigm to a data-centric regulatory paradigm. This project recognizes the importance of human behavior and human decisio...

Heritage and Education are often cited together as two areas that could equally benefit from co-application and dialogue. This book includes some of the papers that were presented at the ‘Education VIA Culture’ conference, which was held online in December 2020. The chapters of this volume focus on how people can learn about heritage and engage with heritage through educational (formal or non-formal) processes.

In the VIA Culture understanding, the best way to create awareness about cultu...

This book offers a critical and thought-provoking exploration of a range of key contemporary debates relating to early childhood (in the UK). With contributions from a range of experts, this book aims to empower students and professionals to engage critically with issues of social justice, children’s rights and the shaping of young children’s lives.

This is the guide to safeguarding for anyone training to teach in primary or secondary schools and qualified teachers wishing to deepen their professional knowledge. It offers practical guidance on managing all aspects of safeguarding as part of a busy teaching role.

Imagine yourself fresh out of high school, ready to tackle the challenges and adventures that await at university. From navigating the stress of academic demands to forging meaningful friendships, the transition can be daunting. But beyond the pursuit of a degree lies a deeper journey—one of emotional growth, social connection, and personal discovery.

Written by the Department of Social, Cultural, and Student Oriented Services (DSCS) and its visionary team, this book is a testament to years...

Using vignettes focused on engagement, leadership, implementation frameworks, and collaborative learning, the authors demonstrate how to uncover and remedy inequities.

This self-contained monograph reports the recent approaches, methods and practices of technology-enabled personalized learning. It serves to provide some useful references for researchers and practitioners in the field in conceptualizing and deploying personalized learning.