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  1. Evaluating ‘Study Skills’: what’s the context?

    Article • Research in Post-Compulsory Education, April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nick Pilcher, Dr Kendall Richards

  2. Women seafarers in Taiwan: policies, benefits, challenges, and bias in the data

    Article • Maritime Policy & Management, December 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  3. The ‘Skills Gap’ in the Animation/VFX Industry in Scotland

    Article • Animation, November 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  4. Thailand’s Kra Canal: economic feasibility and expert perspectives on its complexity

    Article • Maritime Business Review, October 2024, Emerald

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  5. English as a Lingua Franca : intercultural interaction in the context of Asian ‘third space’

    Article • Asian Englishes, October 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nick Pilcher, Mabel Victoria

  6. International Academic Staff

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  7. Worldwide

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  8. Korea

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  9. Introduction

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  10. Conclusion

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  11. Our Data

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  12. The UK

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  13. Languages; Cultures; Personalities

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  14. Key Themes and Illustrative Examples

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  15. Diversity and inclusion in UK Higher Education: staff perspectives on institutional representations and their reality

    Article • Research in Post-Compulsory Education, October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nick Pilcher, Dr Kendall Richards

  16. 'Qualitative' and 'quantitative' methods and approaches across subject fields: implications for research values, assumptions, and practices

    Article • Quality & Quantity, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  17. A Safety Assessment Model for Handling Dangerous Goods in Port Operations: The Key Role of Detection Capability

    Article • Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, August 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  18. EU tourism and student identities in a pre-BREXIT UK

    Article • Annals of Tourism Research, March 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  19. Developing critical intercultural competence through understanding the location, product and processes of dialogue

    Article • October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  20. Political and technical complexities of electronic toll collection: Lessons from Taiwan

    Article • Case Studies on Transport Policy, March 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  21. Estimating the emissions potential of marine transportation using the Kra Canal

    Article • Maritime Transport Research, January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  22. Enhancing Student Support in Higher Education

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher, Dr Kendall Richards

  23. Introduction

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  24. Conclusion

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  25. Context

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  26. Focusing on the Subject

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  27. Our Projects and Data

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  28. Implications with the Different Approaches

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  29. The Roots and Branches of Linguistics

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  30. Examples Considered from Our Past and Present Perspectives

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  31. The View of Language Through the Paradigm of Linguistics

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  32. Ethanol-driven building fungus colonisation: “Whisky Black” in urban built environments

    Article • International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, November 2021, Emerald

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  33. Scotland’s History of Animation: An Exploratory Account of the Key Figures and Influential Events

    Article • Animation, November 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  34. Examining the opportunities and challenges of the Kra Canal: a PESTELE/SWOT analysis

    Article • Maritime Business Review, August 2021, Emerald

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  35. Dealing with the Competition of English-language Export Editions: Voices from the Dutch Trade Book Market

    Article • Publishing Research Quarterly, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  36. Piracy defense strategies for shipping companies and ships: A mixed empirical approach

    Article • Maritime Transport Research, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  37. Using ‘Interculturality’ to Increase the Value of ELT in Academic Contexts

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  38. Believing Study Skills works is to believe in Fairies - Students need Subject Based Support

    Article • Teaching in Higher Education, November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nick Pilcher, Dr Kendall Richards

  39. The UK private housebuilding sector: social media perspectives

    Article • International Perspectives on Health Equity, August 2020, Emerald

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  40. Measuring the effectiveness of English medium instruction shipping courses

    Article • Maritime Business Review, June 2020, Emerald

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  41. Aligning the times: Exploring the convergence of researchers, policy makers and research evidence in higher education policy making

    Article • Research in Education, April 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  42. Lime binders for the repair of historic buildings: Considerations for CO2 abatement

    Article • Journal of Cleaner Production, April 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  43. Role requirements in academic recruitment for Construction and Engineering

    Article • European Journal of Engineering Education, February 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  44. Using Physical Objects as a Portal to Reveal Academic Subject Identity and Thought

    Article • The Qualitative Report, January 2020, Nova Southeastern University

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  45. Evaluating the key factors of green port policies in Taiwan through quantitative and qualitative approaches

    Article • Transport Policy, October 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  46. Revisiting the ‘third space’ in language and intercultural studies

    Article • Language and Intercultural Communication, December 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nick Pilcher, Vivien Xiaowei Zhou

  47. Tapping the thirdness in the intercultural space of dialogue

    Article • Language and Intercultural Communication, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nick Pilcher, Vivien Xiaowei Zhou

  48. How neoliberalism in education is helped through how we view language

    Article • Power and Education, November 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Nick Pilcher, Dr Kendall Richards

  49. Music Generated Narratives: Elaborating the Da Capo Interview Technique

    Article • The Qualitative Report, October 2018, Nova Southeastern University

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  50. How West and East have similarities and subtle differences in conservation of buildings

    Article • International Journal of Architectural Heritage, August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nick Pilcher, Dr Kendall Richards, Samantha Vettese

  51. Most important factors for successful English Medium Shipping Courses

    Article • Maritime Business Review, April 2018, Emerald

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  52. What do shipping companies and field think about the current viability of the Northern Sea Route.

    Article • Maritime Business Review, December 2017, Emerald

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  53. How reflection and essentialist and non-essentialist notions are used in practice

    Article • Language and Intercultural Communication, December 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  54. Is it possible, and if so how, to measure how effective port governance reform is?

    Article • Maritime Policy & Management, September 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  55. Why text alone is insufficient to find out how to help students.

    Article • Teaching in Higher Education, August 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nick Pilcher, Dr Kendall Richards

  56. What are the issues with keeping ports safe and researching how to do so

    Article • European Transport Research Review, June 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  57. Possible benefits and issues of employing purely theoretical staff to teach this practical subject.

    Article • European Journal of Engineering Education, April 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  58. A holistic framework to embed good company practice for customer retention

    Article • The TQM Journal, March 2017, Emerald

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  59. Why we need to stop using IELTS and move to subject based English language testing

    Article • Power and Education, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Nick Pilcher, Dr Kendall Richards

  60. Port governance in Taiwan: How hypocrisy helps meet aspirations of change

    Article • Research in Transportation Business & Management, March 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  61. Can those with only theoretical knowledge teach construction and engineering?

    Article • Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, March 2017, Edinburgh Napier University

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  62. How construction and engineering is increasingly taught theoretically, and the issues involved.

    Article • Higher Education Pedagogies, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  63. An individual subjectivist critique of the use of corpus linguistics to inform pedagogical materials

    Article • Dialogic Pedagogy A Journal for Studies of Dialogic Education, April 2016, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr Nick Pilcher, Dr Kendall Richards

  64. Dialogues: QUANT Researchers on QUAL Methods

    Article • The Qualitative Report, March 2016, Nova Southeastern University

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  65. The paradigmatic hearts of subjects which their ‘English’ flows through

    Article • Higher Education Research & Development, February 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nick Pilcher, Dr Kendall Richards

  66. What are the practical challenges with taxing emissions on ships in port?

    Article • International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics, January 2016, Inderscience Publishers

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  67. The impact of National Qualifications Frameworks: by which yardstick do we measure dreams?

    Article • Journal of Education and Work, December 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  68. What are the practical challenges with introducing clean energy sources for ships at port?

    Article • Research in Transportation Business & Management, December 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  69. Hunt the shadow not the substance: the rise of the career academic in construction education

    Article • Teaching in Higher Education, August 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  70. Avoiding Dialogues of Non-discovery through Promoting Dialogues of Discovery

    Article • Dialogic Pedagogy A Journal for Studies of Dialogic Education, March 2015, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr Nick Pilcher, Dr Kendall Richards

  71. Da capo: A musical technique to evoke narrative recall

    Article • Psychology of Music, July 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  72. The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework: what's academic practice got to do with it?

    Article • European Journal of Education, November 2013, Wiley

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  73. Contextualising higher education assessment task words with an ‘anti-glossary’ approach

    Article • International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nick Pilcher, Dr Kendall Richards

  74. Helping those out of study for a period of time understand assessment task words

    Article • January 2013, Nature

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  75. Language choices and 'blind shadows': investigating interviews with Chinese participants

    Article • Qualitative Research, October 2011, SAGE Publications

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  76. The UK postgraduate Masters dissertation: an ‘elusive chameleon’?

    Article • Teaching in Higher Education, February 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  77. Different Waves Crashing into Different Coastlines? Mainland Chinese Learners doing Postgraduate Dissertations in the UK

    Article • January 2011, Nature

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  78. National Qualification Frameworks: Developing Research Perspectives

    Article • Quality in Higher Education, November 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nick Pilcher

  79. 'Discuss, Analyse, Define...' Non-traditional Students Come to Terms with Cultures of Learning in the UK

    Article • Nature

    Dr Nick Pilcher, Dr Kendall Richards