Researchers
Amanda French, Alex Kendall, Phil Taylor
Aim of research
- improve student understanding of employability as a dynamic, lifelong concept
- offer students the opportunity to investigate, analyse and describe the literacy practices of workplaces and placements that they encountered whilst at university
- identify and evaluate workplace literacies in structured contexts
- make contributions that add value to employers
- encourage tutors to co-investigate workplace literacies with their students
- provide a meta-narrative of workplace literacies across different occupations
- embed overt instruction of workplace literacies into curriculum design across different disciplines
Read more here: http://www.bcu.ac.uk/research/stories/literacies-for-employability