Gavin Melles
Biographic Data
| ID | 1175191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gavin Melles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gavin |
| FAMILY NAME | Melles |
| SIGNATURE | MELLES G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swinburne University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1067-483X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Expert and Diffuse Design of a Sustainable Circular Economy in Two German Circular Roadmap Projects
According to sustainability transitions theory, socio-technical change requires a convergence of politics, social change, technology, and niche innovations. Recently, a circular economy has been proposed as the engine of such change in the EU New Green Deal and Germany. Mainstream circular economy emphasizes the closing of material loops as the way to ensure green growth, and there is a key role for design to achieve such change. According to rep…
Survey Study on Attitudes to Multi-Dimensional Sustainable Development with U.K. MSc Students
As reflected in the sustainable development goals (SDGs), sustainable development is a multi-dimensional concept integrating political, ethical, economic, and other factors. Reports from the United Nations (UN) Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UNDESD) suggest that universities are more engaged with sustainable development in higher education. Despite promising signals about student awareness of sustainable development, survey stud…
Sustainable Community Development or Voluntourism
Volunteer tourism (‘voluntourism’) packages development and poverty as culturally exotic and ethical experiences for tourists from industrialized countries. Among the various sectors promoting voluntourism, university sector short term study abroad tours network voluntourism agencies, local actors (e.g., NGOs), universities, and government funding to offer students ‘life changing’ community sustainable development experiences. Alongside the purpo…
Understanding the Role of Language/Culture in Group Work through Qualitative Interviewing
The second language student experience of group work at university is not often transparent in survey evaluations, although the multicultural nature of the student population in Australasia would suggest that culture and language should be on the research agenda. Culture and language, notwithstanding, is used in the higher education literature to position the Asian learner as different and problematic, although such cultural models and stereotype…
Doing Research in Design , by Christopher Crouch and Jane Pearce
Review of the book 'Doing research in design', by Christopher Crouch and Jane Pearce, published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2012.
Writing purposefully in art and design
In disciplines with long histories in higher education, academic literacies, including writing practices, are less contested than in newer academic fields such as art and design. The relatively recent incorporation of such fields and schools into the university sector has required these fields to create academic writing practices consistent with existing academic models or to justify their distinctive disciplinary practices. Recently, for example…
Competing allegiances in ESL curriculum work
The ethnography reported here reports on the findings of a practitioner ethnography conducted in a feminised and casualised workforce over four years (1997-2001) in a New Zealand polytechnic. It examines the competing allegiances of teachers and students in a combined community and workplace English oriented programme, in contexts where intercultural, professional and hegemonic discourses underpin practice on the institutional margins. In all cas…
Credit-Based Discipline Specific English for Academic Purposes Programmes in Higher Education
In the UK, North America and Australia, credit-bearing discipline specific English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses are seen as a challenge to remedial views of English as a Second Language and a key element in revitalizing a profession on the periphery of the institution. However, the EAP field has to confront not only institutional challenges to its acceptability as a discipline but also tensions within the field. In this article we examine …
Enfocando la competencia linguistica
El desarrollo de la competencia comunicativa por parte de los estudiantes de espanol como lengua extranjera no puede realizarse sin atender al componente gramatical. La construccion creativa de este complejo sociolinguistico no sera, por tanto, el simple resultado del procesamiento activo de textos orales y escritos en un entorno pedagogico donde se privilegian los objetivos comunicativos sino consecuencia de un equilibrio didactico en que se rec…
Understanding the Role of Language/Culture in Group Work through Qualitative Interviewing
The second language student experience of group work at university is not often transparent in survey evaluations, although the multicultural nature of the student population in Australasia would suggest that culture and language should be on the research agenda. Culture and language, notwithstanding, is used in the higher education literature to position the Asian learner as different and problematic, although such cultural models and stereotype…
Expert and Diffuse Design of a Sustainable Circular Economy in Two German Circular Roadmap Projects
According to sustainability transitions theory, socio-technical change requires a convergence of politics, social change, technology, and niche innovations. Recently, a circular economy has been proposed as the engine of such change in the EU New Green Deal and Germany. Mainstream circular economy emphasizes the closing of material loops as the way to ensure green growth, and there is a key role for design to achieve such change. According to rep…
Writing purposefully in art and design
In disciplines with long histories in higher education, academic literacies, including writing practices, are less contested than in newer academic fields such as art and design. The relatively recent incorporation of such fields and schools into the university sector has required these fields to create academic writing practices consistent with existing academic models or to justify their distinctive disciplinary practices. Recently, for example…
Enfocando la competencia linguistica
El desarrollo de la competencia comunicativa por parte de los estudiantes de espanol como lengua extranjera no puede realizarse sin atender al componente gramatical. La construccion creativa de este complejo sociolinguistico no sera, por tanto, el simple resultado del procesamiento activo de textos orales y escritos en un entorno pedagogico donde se privilegian los objetivos comunicativos sino consecuencia de un equilibrio didactico en que se rec…
Credit-Based Discipline Specific English for Academic Purposes Programmes in Higher Education
In the UK, North America and Australia, credit-bearing discipline specific English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses are seen as a challenge to remedial views of English as a Second Language and a key element in revitalizing a profession on the periphery of the institution. However, the EAP field has to confront not only institutional challenges to its acceptability as a discipline but also tensions within the field. In this article we examine …
Competing allegiances in ESL curriculum work
The ethnography reported here reports on the findings of a practitioner ethnography conducted in a feminised and casualised workforce over four years (1997-2001) in a New Zealand polytechnic. It examines the competing allegiances of teachers and students in a combined community and workplace English oriented programme, in contexts where intercultural, professional and hegemonic discourses underpin practice on the institutional margins. In all cas…
Writing purposefully in art and design
In disciplines with long histories in higher education, academic literacies, including writing practices, are less contested than in newer academic fields such as art and design. The relatively recent incorporation of such fields and schools into the university sector has required these fields to create academic writing practices consistent with existing academic models or to justify their distinctive disciplinary practices. Recently, for example…
Doing Research in Design , by Christopher Crouch and Jane Pearce
Review of the book 'Doing research in design', by Christopher Crouch and Jane Pearce, published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2012.
Understanding the Role of Language/Culture in Group Work through Qualitative Interviewing
The second language student experience of group work at university is not often transparent in survey evaluations, although the multicultural nature of the student population in Australasia would suggest that culture and language should be on the research agenda. Culture and language, notwithstanding, is used in the higher education literature to position the Asian learner as different and problematic, although such cultural models and stereotype…
Sustainable Community Development or Voluntourism
Volunteer tourism (‘voluntourism’) packages development and poverty as culturally exotic and ethical experiences for tourists from industrialized countries. Among the various sectors promoting voluntourism, university sector short term study abroad tours network voluntourism agencies, local actors (e.g., NGOs), universities, and government funding to offer students ‘life changing’ community sustainable development experiences. Alongside the purpo…
Survey Study on Attitudes to Multi-Dimensional Sustainable Development with U.K. MSc Students
As reflected in the sustainable development goals (SDGs), sustainable development is a multi-dimensional concept integrating political, ethical, economic, and other factors. Reports from the United Nations (UN) Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UNDESD) suggest that universities are more engaged with sustainable development in higher education. Despite promising signals about student awareness of sustainable development, survey stud…
Expert and Diffuse Design of a Sustainable Circular Economy in Two German Circular Roadmap Projects
According to sustainability transitions theory, socio-technical change requires a convergence of politics, social change, technology, and niche innovations. Recently, a circular economy has been proposed as the engine of such change in the EU New Green Deal and Germany. Mainstream circular economy emphasizes the closing of material loops as the way to ensure green growth, and there is a key role for design to achieve such change. According to rep…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Sustainability (3 works) · Sustainable development (3 works) · Discipline (2 works) · Economics (2 works)