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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, 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; Baxter, Jacqueline; Selby-Fell, Helen and Morales Pachón, Andrés (2025). Navigating from industry to higher education: Practitioner transitions to academic life. British Educational Research Journal, 51(2) pp. 930–948.

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Myers, Fran; Collins, Hilary and Glover, Hayley (2025). ‘Lost futures’, and undermined pasts of the pandemic; digital lecturers’ ghostly reflections of time, self, and the university. Management Learning (in press).

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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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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, 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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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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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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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.

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

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; Glover, Hayley and Collins, Hilary (2025). Post pandemic questions for putting teachers back at the heart of teaching in higher education. In: Responding to the challenges posed by precarity in higher education teaching, 17 Mar 2025, Online.

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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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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, 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.

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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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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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.

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.

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.

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. In Teaching in Higher Education The blog of the journal Taylor & Francis.

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

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.