
Dr Rebekah Sims
Lecturer
Education
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Sustainable environment through using porous materials : a review on wastewater treatment Al-Jubouri Sama M, Al Batty Sirhan, Al Hamd Rwayda, Sims Rebekah, Wali Hakami Mohammed, Haque SK Manirul Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol 18 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1002/apj.2941 Transnational curriculum design for intercultural learning in writing programs Panahi Parva, Banat Hadi, Sims Rebekah, Tran Phuong, Dilger Bradley Teaching and Studying Transnational Composition (2022) (2022) Illuminative evaluation of an intercultural-competence-focused first-year writing curriculum Sims Rebekah, Banat Hadi, Tran Phuong, Panahi Parva, Dilger Bradley Writing and Pedagogy Vol 14, pp. 103-127 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1558/wap.21124 Developing intercultural competence through a linked course model curriculum : mainstream and L2-specific first year writing Banat Hadi, Sims Rebekah, Tran Phuong, Panahi Parva, Dilger Bradley TESOL Journal Vol 13 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1002/tesj.613 Investigating culturally responsive teaching practices in first-year composition Sims Rebekah (2021) Review of 'Reading Hebrew Bible Narratives' Sims Rebekah Encounter: A Journal of Theological Scholarship Vol 80, pp. 99-101 (2020)
Publications
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Analysing Data in Qualitative Inquiry: From Analysing to Writing Up your Research Sims, Rebekah (Principal Investigator) Landi, Dillon (Co-investigator) Lamb, Cara (Post Grad Student) This six-session, interactive seminar focusses on qualitative data analysis approaches. We take a hands-on approach to developing qualitative data analysis skills for doctoral students. Our seminar is funded by the Scottish Graduate School for Social Sciences and the Scottish Graduate School for the Arts & Humanities
Our learning objectives are:
1. To develop participants’ abilities to understand and discuss the goals, strengths and weaknesses of theoretical frameworks and research methods.
2. To increase participant familiarity with a variety of approaches, methods and analysis tools that are referred to as qualitative.
3. To learn how to write up a data analysis and results section to a qualitative research report.
17-Jan-2022 - 21-Jan-2022 Academic Literacy in Teacher Education Sims, Rebekah (Principal Investigator) Hunter, Sharon (Principal Investigator) Our research investigates:
- how higher education teaching professionals teach and/or support academic literacies
- what types of academic literacies students in teacher education need to develop for success in academic and professional settings
- what HE teachers and students think "good writing" looks like
- how teacher education programmes can integrate effective academic literacy instruction to enrich student learning and reduce inequalities experienced in academic settings 01-Jan-2021 Transculturation in introductory composition Sims, Rebekah (Principal Investigator) Dilger, Bradley (Research Co-investigator) Banat, Hadi (Principal Investigator) Tran, Phuong (Researcher) Panahi, Parva (Researcher) The Transculturation in Introductory Composition research team seeks to increase undergraduate students’ intercultural competence by designing and implementing first-year writing courses that encourage meaningful intercultural interaction among international and domestic students.
Our innovative model links mainstream and second-language-focused first-year writing sections to expose students to diverse texts, structured intercultural interactions, and sequenced writing assignments supported by team-taught pedagogical interventions.
More about the curricular model, its assessment, and our findings can be found at: writeic.org. Grant funding for the first phase of the project was $34250 USD.
Now, we are in the second phase of this project and have a new data set from implementing the revised curriculum at the University of Massachusetts -- Boston.
30-Jan-2016
Projects
Our learning objectives are:
1. To develop participants’ abilities to understand and discuss the goals, strengths and weaknesses of theoretical frameworks and research methods.
2. To increase participant familiarity with a variety of approaches, methods and analysis tools that are referred to as qualitative.
3. To learn how to write up a data analysis and results section to a qualitative research report.
- how higher education teaching professionals teach and/or support academic literacies
- what types of academic literacies students in teacher education need to develop for success in academic and professional settings
- what HE teachers and students think "good writing" looks like
- how teacher education programmes can integrate effective academic literacy instruction to enrich student learning and reduce inequalities experienced in academic settings
Our innovative model links mainstream and second-language-focused first-year writing sections to expose students to diverse texts, structured intercultural interactions, and sequenced writing assignments supported by team-taught pedagogical interventions.
More about the curricular model, its assessment, and our findings can be found at: writeic.org. Grant funding for the first phase of the project was $34250 USD.
Now, we are in the second phase of this project and have a new data set from implementing the revised curriculum at the University of Massachusetts -- Boston.