Anesa HoseinUniversity of Surrey · Department of Higher Education
Anesa Hosein
BSc (Physics), MPhil (Industrial Engineering), MSc (Research Methods), PhD (Educational Technology), PGCert (Academic Practice)
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Introduction
Additional affiliations
March 2013 - present
October 2011 - May 2012
Independent Researcher
Position
- Problem Solving
Description
- mathematics, online problem solving environment, undergraduate
October 2004 - July 2010
Education
October 2005 - August 2009
October 2004 - December 2005
Publications
Publications (64)
Life course theory posits that social, structural, and cultural contexts shape individuals’ life outcomes. Using this theory, we investigated whether inequalities in education and employment outcomes for young people with marginalised identities are shaped by the university environment they attended. Based on UK national statistics, universities wi...
To explore the affective domains embedded in academic development and teacher practice, a team of academic developers was invited to consider a poem and how it reflects the emotions and feelings underpinning experiences as teachers within Higher Education. We used a method of arts-informed, collective biography to evaluate a poem to draw upon and s...
Laboratory tasks often focus on mechanical procedures leaving limited time and opportunities for students to build conceptual knowledge. We investigate to what extent introducing simulation tasks to preparation work can enable students to build their conceptual knowledge. We surveyed two cohorts of students taking an electronics module. Laboratory...
Background
Online gaming motivations are differently associated with career interests. However, very little is known about online gaming behaviour based on the actual games played and how career interests are reflected in what people play. Hence, we investigated the actual gaming behaviour of individuals from an extensive secondary data set to furt...
There is an increasing focus on structural and social determinants of inequalities in young people's mental health across different social contexts. Taking higher education as a specific social context, it is unclear whether university attendance shapes the impact of intersectional social identities and positions on young people's mental health out...
Recent evidence suggests that adolescents with mental health issues are more likely to go on to attend university. Reasons for this point to academic pressures that may cause mental distress potentially being greater for those who plan to attend university. We aimed to investigate this hypothesis further by examining whether the extent to which men...
It is unclear whether recent increases in mental health issues reported by students are comparable between young people in and out of higher education. Furthermore, university (non)attendance may combine with individuals’ other social identities to lead to mental health inequalities. Using quantitative longitudinal data from the national cohort stu...
Although participation in academic speaking events is a key to developing disciplinary understanding, students for whom English is a second language may have limited access to these learning events due to an increasingly dialogic and active higher education pedagogy which places considerable demands on their oracy skills. Drawing on the Oracy Skill...
The sources and types of information that prospective university students access during the recruitment phase have been widely researched. However, there is limited research on the usefulness of the learning and teaching (L&T) information provided by universities to prospective students in describing their own learning experiences of the programme....
Neoliberalisation of academia has led to an increasing recruitment of doctoral students in teaching roles. Whilst there is evidence of doctoral students being engaged in teaching roles and the reasons for doing so, there is a pressing need to understand their experiences and to develop effective support practices to help them in their roles as teac...
In conflict zones, young people's education is affected because of a lack of regular schooling. This results in young people having knowledge gaps which affects their engagement at universities. This study investigated university lecturers’ perceptions of their students’ mathematical knowledge gaps using a socioecological approach. Fifteen universi...
This chapter seeks to examine the academic diversity in the contemporary higher education institutions and considers the possible implications of such diversity for learning and teaching (L&T) in their approaches, practices and policies in British academia. Using the UK as a case study, we examine the higher education statistics (HESA 2015/2016 dat...
The purpose of this article is to explore how Early Career Academics (ECAs) cope with their complex and multiple transitions when starting their new role. By focussing on the participants’ lived experiences in a professional development (PD) training program to discuss and share practice, we explored how ECAs developed and maintained social network...
The emerging literature related to feedback literacy has hitherto focused primarily on students’ engagement with feedback, and yet an analysis of academics’ feedback literacy is also of interest to those seeking to understand effective strategies to engage with feedback. Data from concept map-mediated interviews and reflections, with a team of six...
In undergraduate degrees in the social sciences, research courses are usually a compulsory component of the curriculum. This chapter explores the pedagogical engagement, through the lens of acculturation theory, that is needed for creating scientific thinking skills via research courses. We posit that students who choose their discipline voluntaril...
In this reflection, we explore the issue of internationalisation with respect to academic staff. We argue that universities are employing international academic staff to meet their internationalisation agenda without considering actively how to use their pedagogical knowledge and expertise to create an internationalised environment.
This paper investigates the underexplored area of othering of migrant academics within their teaching context. Nine personal narratives of migrant academics’ teaching were analysed qualitatively for indications of pedagogical othering. Migrant academics indicated the need to align their own pedagogic values and practices with that of their host ins...
International students come from diverse contexts and countries. In spite of the multiplicity in their educational values and cultures, these students are often viewed as a homogenous group and perceived as having similar voices and needs. This chapter engages in a statistical examination to highlight this diversity in international student voices....
Using a longitudinal cohort study, the LSYPE, the paper investigates the destination of boys and girls with a physical science, technology, engineering and mathematics (PSTEM) A-levels (secondary school examinations) into degree programmes. Boys were more likely to go into a PSTEM degree than girls (7 times vs 5 times). Girls were more likely to pu...
In this study, members of a higher education department explore their research activity and how it influences their practice as academic developers in a research-led institution. While the research activities of the team members appear diverse, they are all underpinned by a shared set of professional values to provide an anchor for these activities...
In this study, members of a higher education department explore their research activity and how it influences their practice as academic developers in a research-led institution. While the research activities of the team members appear diverse, they are all underpinned by a shared set of professional values to provide an anchor for these activities...
Girls' uptake of physical science, technology, engineering and mathematics (PSTEM) degrees continues to be poor. Identifying and targeting interventions for girl groups that are likely to go into STEM degrees may be a possible solution. This paper, using a self-determination theory and self-socialisation framework, determines whether one girl group...
Academics' International Teaching Journeys provides personal narratives of nine international social science academics in foreign countries as they adapt and develop their teaching. The team of international contributors provide an invaluable resource for other academics who may be exposed to similar situations and may find these narratives useful...
This SRHE-funded study addresses an important gap in the internationalisation of the higher education research - that of the pedagogic impact of international staff on the professional practice of the native academic in their host institutions who work alongside those migrant academics. Previous research on academic migration has largely focussed o...
Highlights
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Study based in an authentic setting about students’ self-assessment accuracy.
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Prior attainment, knowledge and confidence are related to self-assessment accuracy.
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Students with moderate prior attainment are the worse self-assessors.
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Students’ performance was positively related with self-assessment inaccuracy.
Abstract
The ability...
In spite of a sizeable number of international academics within the UK academia, there appears to be little research on the teaching training needs of these migrant academics. This article highlights some of the key recommendations of a SEDA funded study on how migrant academics could be best supported in developing their identity as teachers in fo...
Through a dialogic process, this chapter explores the problems and challenges that small disciplines (ones with very few offerings and small student population) and raises questions on how we can develop our future students for specialised and niche jobs without compromising the quality of teaching in disciplines that are susceptible to the vagarie...
Pedagogical Peculiarities: Conversations at the Edge of University Teaching and Learning explores the peculiarities characterising university teaching cultures through a consideration of the implications, tensions and impacts associated with academic development in higher education. This is achieved through a series of deliberative dialogues, invol...
With globalisation there has been an increase in cross-border travel of skilled work forces (Kim and Locke, 2010; Poole and Ewan, 2010) including academics within Higher Education (HE). Nearly 28% of academics working in the UK HE sector come from other countries (HEFCE, 2015). The presence of immigrant academics may offer pedagogic opportunities a...
Undergraduate students sometimes pursue degrees that are aimed at allied jobs. This research examines how students in one allied professional degree, education studies, conceptualise their pre-professional ideology and how these ideologies relate to their intended career trajectory. The research draws upon a year-long qualitative survey of over 70...
‘Publish or perish’ has been a phrase that has summed up the work of academics for at least the last half century. The need for research publications to move one’s academic career forward has become a source of tension between that and the other main focus of the academic, that of teaching. Teaching, by itself, is not often seen as a scholarly acti...
The Green Paper Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice [BIS. 2015. Sheffield: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/474227/BIS-15–623-fulfilling-our-potential-teaching-excellence-social-mobility-and-student-choice.pdf] sugg...
In higher education, despite the emphasis on student-centred pedagogical approaches, undergraduate research methods pedagogy remains surprisingly teacher-directed. Consequently, it may lead to research methods students assuming that becoming a researcher involves gathering information rather than it being a continuous developmental process. To comb...
The selection of the pedagogical approach plays a crucial role in determining the learning approaches that students engage with (e.g. surface or deep learning) and the knowledge and skill transfer. This paper maps the existing student-centred pedagogical practices in European Studies (ES) using a worldwide survey conducted within the framework of t...
After spending a year working on the development of a new online Master’s programme in higher education, members of the development team were interviewed to reveal their thoughts about the nature of the programme. The dialogue of each interview was summarised as a concept map. Analysis of the resulting maps included a modified Bernsteinian analysis...
How and with whom academics develop and maintain formal and informal networks for reflecting on their teaching practice has received limited attention even though academic development (AD) programmes have become an almost ubiquitous feature of higher education. The primary goal of this mixed-method study is to unpack how 114 academics in an AD prog...
The aim of this research was to investigate and assess the impact of the four guidance
documents for higher education providers published by QAA in August 2013. The intention
of the guidance (which was the product of extensive consultation with sector organisations)
was to offer support to providers in making detailed and transparent information av...
Few studies have investigated self-constructs on primary school age children's achievement in mathematics. However, studies on secondary and tertiary levels suggest that academic achievement is influenced by a person's self-efficacy/self-confidence, (a belief in their own ability), social comparison, (comparing own performance with others), self-co...
In the UK, research methods courses are a staple diet of postgraduate social sciences programmes. However, undergraduate social science research methods courses have been taught in other countries for many years, most notably in the USA (see for example Ransford and Butler, 1982). Since the publication by Jenkins and Healey (2005) exploring the tea...
Comparison is a natural intellectual inquiry which we pursue all the time when making judgments and during decision-making. Increasing globalisation and international mobility has increased the need to do studies that tend to be drawn towards comparisons between local, regional and national education systems due to their increasing interdependence....
Research and research methods is an integral part of postgraduate study. However, it is becoming increasingly more common to find students having to complete a research methods course at the undergraduate level. The purpose of this research is thus to investigate undergraduate students’ attitudes towards studying research methods. The research also...
Research supervision is a process of fostering and enhancing learning, research and communication at the highest level (Laske & Zuber-Skerritt, 1996). Hasrati (2005, p. 557) argues that supervision is ‘crucial’, ‘pivotal’, ‘at the heart of most research training’, ‘at the core of the project’, and also, ‘the single most important variable affecting...
This paper reports on the results of a two-year study carried out in five different universities in the UK on different facets of learner experiences of digital technology use. Two self-completion surveys were administered- one in the beginning and another one towards the end of the academic year. The results showed that distance learners aged 25 y...
The study described in this paper investigated the use of research blogs by postgraduate students over a four-year period. An initial, one-year, pilot focused on the research blogs of three first-year doctoral students (Ferguson, Clough, & Hosein, 2007). Analysis indicated that blogs were used to promote a community where students were encouraged t...
This article presents results from a longitudinal survey of first-year students' time spent on living and learning technologies at university, their frequency of using specific learning technologies and their competence with these tools. Data were analysed from two similar surveys at the start and at the end of the academic year for students studyi...
The study described in this paper investigated ways in which keeping a research journal as a blog rather than as a paper document influenced the postgraduate student research experience. Four blogs (three individual and one collaborative blog) initiated by three research students were used as the corpus of data. The three individual blogs acted as...
This paper presents results from a longitudinal study on first-year students’ expectations and actual reported use of information and communication technologies (ICT) at university. The study was interested in firstly, knowing if students from the Net Generation (≤ 25 years) would appropriate more ICT time for both social life and leisure, and stud...
The paper presents work from a longitudinal study on how first year students from the Net Generation use ICT tools. Using factor analysis, the research found that students can be categorized into clusters based on whether they were using web 2.0 tools (web interactive), audio and video editing tools (technical-oriented), social networking tools (so...
This paper looks at the results of a longitudinal study on how frequently the Net Generation students (i.e. those born in the 1980s) use technologies in their first year of university. Eight technology groupings were explored including web 2.0, social networking and computer software. The research investigated whether older Net Generation students...
Three mathematical software modes are investigated in this thesis: black-box software showing no mathematical steps; glass-box software showing the intermediate mathematical steps; and open-box software showing and allowing interaction at the intermediate mathematical steps. The glass-box and open-box software modes are often recommended over the b...
Three mathematical software types: black-box (no steps shown), glass-box (steps shown) and open-box (interactive steps) were used by 32 students to solve conceptual and procedural tasks on the computer via remote observation. Comparison of the three software types suggests that there is no difference in the scores that students receive for conceptu...
The research investigates how conceptual understanding of mathematics is promoted when using three types of software: black-box (no mathematical intermediate steps shown), glass-box (intermediate steps shown) and open-box (interaction at each intermediate step). Thirty-eight students were asked to think-aloud and give detailed explanations whilst a...
Nowadays, the competitiveness of any organisations rests dominantly on how they can manage their performance. A host of performance variables such as quality, reliability, and efficiency are recognised as competitive priorities. This paper reviews the criteria and dimensions of performance measures, and discusses six core performance indicators in...
Observing students using computers often occurs through three methods: user-lab, on-site and remote data logging. Whilst each of these have their advantages with the new type of students such as elearners, an alternative method called web-conferencing remote observation is presented for observing students at a distance. This method collects both au...
The poultry industry is presently one of the largest contributors to the agribusiness
incomes in Trinidad and Tobago. Facing a lot of challenges within the country and from
outside, there is a pressing need for industry practitioners and operators to attain
performance goals and competitiveness. After a brief digest of current operations and
ch...
Students using three types of spreadsheet calculators for understanding expected value were observed remotely. This remote observation involves the use of webcams and application sharing for observing students learning mathematics. The study illustrates how remote observation can be used for collecting mathematical education data and raises questio...
This paper discusses an online survey of linear programming (LP) lecturers in four countries in various disciplines. The study uses Biglan’s [1, 2] classification of disciplines to show that courses in hard-pure and hard-applied subjects were more likely to teach theoretical aspects of linear programming whilst the hard-applied and soft-applied sub...
A prototype journal information system (JIS) comprising of a cataloguing sub-system
and an information indexing sub-system was developed to assist researchers and engineering
students in their literature review and research studies. The system can provide 1) a fast searching
capability to trace articles with specified themes, subject areas, keyword...
Projects
Projects (11)
The Student Wellbeing & Life Outcomes Project (https://studentwelllives.com), funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), investigates the mental health, wellbeing, and life outcomes (education and employment) of young people, with a particular focus on those who enter higher education.
The main objectives of this research project are to:
1. Reduce the evidence gap on how the mental health and wellbeing of adolescents affect their transitions into higher education and their life outcomes after graduating.
2. Create information for policymakers (such as government, universities and charities) to implement suitable policies and practices that can enhance mental health and wellbeing outcomes.
3. Determine whether any findings vary based on individuals’ social characteristics (particularly the intersectionality of social characteristics, such as differences between white male students and black male students).
Due to globalisation, there has been an increase in cross border travel and in number of individuals moving for work and study in foreign educational contexts. This projects seeks to explore these academic journeys of individuals and the challenges face by them and in turn the challenges posed and opportunities offered by such academic migration for the host educational contexts
