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Bloomfield, Sarah; Marshall, Helen; Timmins, Susan; Reid, Kristen and Myers, Fran (2024). Tension, emotion and altruism: line managers as unsung heroes at the workforce development coalface? In: UALL–SCUTREA Conference 2024: Thinking globally and acting locally for lifelong learning, 1-3 Jul 2024, SOAS, University of London.

Myers, Fran; Reid, Kristen and Bloomfield, Sarah (2024). Apprentice Perspectives: Agency, resilience, and withdrawal in work-based learning provision. In: The 13th Researching Work and Learning conference, 17-19 Jun 2024, Linköping University, Sweden, pp. 74–76.

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Bloomfield, Sarah; Buray, Kulvinder; Myers, Fran and Shek, Mary (2024). Learning to work whilst working to learn: Is the degree apprenticeship a route for me? SCiLAB, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

Myers, Fran; Collins, Hilary and Glover, Hayley (2024). …You wouldn’t start from here: pandemic and post-pandemic teaching in higher education [Blogpost]. In Teaching in Higher Education The blog of the journal Taylor & Francis.

Glover, Hayley; Myers, Fran and Collins, Hilary (2024). A moment in and out of time: precarity, liminality, and autonomy in crisis teaching. Teaching in Higher Education, 29(3) pp. 723–740.

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Reid, Kristen; Bloomfield, Sarah and Myers, Fran (2023). The straw that broke the camel's back?: a tensions based perspective on the role of Portfolios in aiding and restricting learning on the CMDA. In: UVAC Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship Knowledge Network, 29 Nov 2023, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK.

Myers, Fran; Bloomfield, Sarah and Reid, Kristen (2023). What happens when apprentices are made redundant. Wonkhe.

Myers, Frances (2023). Book review: Wilfredo Alvarez Everyday Dirty Work: Invisibility, Communication, and Immigrant Labor. Work, Employment, and Society, 37(5) pp. 1437–1439.

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Myers, Fran; Reid, Kristen and Bloomfield, Sarah (2023). Business and Management Degree Apprenticeships – a quiet revolution, a work-in-progress, or business-as-usual? The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

Myers, Frances (2023). Political Purpose and the Development of Mediatisation: Considering Media Representations and News Management During the Coal Dispute of 1984-5. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 48(1) pp. 71–89.

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Myers, Frances (2023). Tracking The Authorised Version? Comparing UK Media Representations and Political News Management During the 1984-5 Coal Dispute. In: Political Studies Association 2023, 3-5 Apr 2023, Liverpool.

Glover, Hayley; Myers, Fran and Collins, Hilary (2023). Stop all the clocks: Narratives of independence, interdependence, and resistance in digital teaching when the everyday is every day. In: BSA WES2023: British Sociological Association, Work Employment and Society Conference, 13-15 Sep 2023, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK.

Collins, Hilary; Myers, Fran and Glover, Hayley (2023). Imaging the pandemic: Higher Education tutors’ narratives and photographs of precarious online living and learning. In: SRHE International Research Conference 2023, 4-8 Dec 2023, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.

Collins, Hilary; Glover, Hayley and Myers, Fran (2022). Behind the digital curtain: a study of academic identities, liminalities and labour market adaptations for the ‘Uber-isation’ of HE. Teaching in Higher Education, 27(2) pp. 201–216.

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Glover, Hayley; Collins, Hilary and Myers, Fran (2022). Teaching in the time of COVID-19: a timescape of online tutors’ lived experiences. In: EAIR 44th Annual Forum hosted by MCAST, Malta, 4-7 Sep 2022, Malta.

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Myers, Fran (2021). Public Myth and Metaphor: Negative Narratives, Lost Reputations and Bankers’ Leadership Illegitimacies from The Media During the Financial Crisis of 2008-9. In: Metin Camgöz, Selin and Tayfur Ekmekci, Özge eds. Destructive Leadership and Management Hypocrisy: Advances in Theory and Practice. Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 211–224.

Myers, Frances; Glover, Hayley and Stephens, Carey (2021). Learner interrupted: understanding the stories behind the codes – a qualitative analysis of HE distance-learner withdrawals. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 45(8) pp. 1134–1146.

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Glover, Hayley; Collins, Hilary and Myers, Fran (2020). Living in an (im)material world?: higher education enclosure and digital dispossession. In: EDUlearn20, 6-7 Jul 2020, online.

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Myers, Fran; Collins, Hilary; Glover, Hayley and Watson, Mor (2019). The Automation Game: technological retention activities and perceptions on changes to tutors’ roles and identity. Teaching in Higher Education, 24(4) pp. 545–562.

Collins, Hilary; Jones Myers, Fran and Glover, Hayley (2019). Winter is coming? Academic identity transitions for a digitized and precarious landscape. In: European Group for Organisational Studies: Sub Theme 15: 'Faking it: Identity Work in an age of exclusion.

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Jones Myers, F.; Glover, H. and Collins, H. (2018). “Frozen Moments” in the Digitisation of Higher Education Teaching - Self Photography as a Critical Ethnographic Approach to Evaluate Academic Identities in a Cross Cultural Setting. In: ICERI2018 Proceedings pp. 5546–5551.

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Glover, Hayley; Jones Myers, Fran; Power, Bronagh; Stephens, Carey and Hardwick, Jane (2018). Listening and Learning? Privileging the Student Voice in E-Learning Discourses Of Withdrawal: a Qualitative Analysis. In: e-LEARNING 2018, 17-19 Jul 2018, Madrid, Spain.

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Glover, Hayley; Jones Myers, Fran and Collins, Hilary (2018). Academic Identities And The Digital Self? A Cross Cultural Study Of Digitisation In Higher Education Teaching. In: 12th International Conference on e-Learning, 17-19 Jul 2018, Madrid, Spain.

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Myers, Frances (2018). How the Left was won? Media re-positioning of the 'moderate' during the 1984-5 Miners Strike. In: Social History Society 42nd Annual Conference, 11-13 Jun 2018, Keele University, Newcastle under Lyme.

Myers, Fran (2018). [Book Review] Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries. Cultural Sociology, 12(1) pp. 119–121.

Collins, Hilary; Glover, Hayley and Jones Myers, Fran (2017). The Automation Game: perceptions on the impact of the changes on business school tutors’ roles and identity during the introduction of technological student retention activities: an ‘unbundled’ HE. In: 2017 British Academy of Management Conference Proceedings, British Academy of Management.

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Glover, H.; Collins, H. and Myers, F. (2017). Rhetoric of the digitized faculty – a cross cultural ethnographic study of higher education lecturers at the cross-roads of pedagogic change. In: EDULEARN17 Proceedings, IATED, pp. 7735–7743.

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Collins, Hilary; Glover, Hayley; Myers, Fran and Watson, Mor (2016). Automation in distance learning: an empirical study of unlearning and academic identity change linked to automation of student messaging within distance learning. In: 10th International IADIS E-learning conference, 1-4 Jul 2016, Funchal, Madeira.

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Myers, Fran (2016). Fantastic Beasts? Media functions for the depersonification and animalisation of ‘guilty men’ during the Financial Crisis, 2008-9. In: British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2016 - Global Societies: Fragmenting and Connecting, 6 Apr - 8 Apr 2016.

Myers, Fran (2016). Villains, victims, vampires and vitriol: media functions of metaphor for key banking figures during the financial crisis. In: European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy Annual conference, 2016, UK.

Myers, Fran (2015). Is there a connection between academic identity, un-learning organisational routines and the success of automated student messaging? In: Chartered Association of Business Schools Annual Conference, 28 Apr 2015, York.

Myers, Fran (2015). Depoliticisation, discourse and demonization: How did the state try to resist respective crises and competing interests in 1984-5 during the Miners’ strike and the financial crisis of 2008, and what was the contribution of the media to this. In: AHRC NWCDTP annual conference, 12 Oct 2015, Keele University.

Stephens, Carey and Myers, Fran (2014). Signals from the silent: online predictors of non-success. Business and Management Education in HE: An International Journal, 1 pp. 47–60.

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Myers, Fran; Phillips, Mike; Raby, Paul and Stephens, Carey (2013). Engaging large groups of individual learners through an online environment – an emerging i-Learner generation? In: Doyle, Elaine; Buckley, Patrick and Carroll, Conor eds. Innovative Business School Teaching. Abingdon: Routledge.

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Myers, Fran (2013). Lost in (social) space? - Testing the transition to learning online. In: Proceedings of The 2013 International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association Conference: Exploring Spaces for Learning.

Myers, Fran (2012). Innovative technology and improving student retention & success in an online environment. In: Association of Business Schools Annual Conference, Apr 2012.

Myers, Fran (2011). Embedding employability in distance learning education. In: Third Annual ESCalate Student Conference: Employability and Enterprise in Education, 11 Apr 2011, Liverpool Hope University.