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