Gurpinder Singh Lalli
Biographic Data
| ID | 290593 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gurpinder Singh Lalli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gurpinder Singh |
| FAMILY NAME | Lalli |
| SIGNATURE | LALLI G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wolverhampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7493-4813 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Explaining Second Language Learners’ Willingness to Communicate with GenAI Voice Chatbots via SEM and fsQCA
Win-win food system approach to improve children’s nutrition
Purpose To describe the development of a healthy eating habits intervention in a school and to evaluate parents’ acceptability of this initiative. Design/methodology/approach This exploratory study was conducted between February and March 2022 in a public school serving children aged 1–4 years in São Paulo, Brazil. The school acted as an educational distribution channel. Interviews with school staff helped co-design four educational videos with s…
Dual Battles
This paper presents data from a small‐scale case study which reviewed the roles, pedagogies and identities of lecturers in dual positions working across further and higher education in England, UK. The following research questions were designed and framed with Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological model: (1) how do the roles of lecturers working across further and higher education in dual positions differ? (2) what pedagogical differences exist for …
From Inherited Learning to Dual‐Stage Learning
Education has long been a cornerstone of societal development, a structured system designed to transmit knowledge, foster growth, and prepare individuals for societal roles (Vega Chica & Valle Lituma, 2024). However, the traditional knowledge‐transmission‐based model faces big challenges in an era with rapid technological advancements (Li et al., 2024), particularly in artificial intelligence (AI). This perspective article discusses the foundatio…
Exploring the Impact of Teacher Support on Chinese University Students' Academic Buoyancy and Academic Enjoyment in AI ‐Assisted Learning
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated into educational settings, the role of teacher support in fostering students' adaptive capacities warrants greater attention. Grounded in Self‐Determination Theory (SDT), this mixed‐method study employed a quasi‐experimental design to investigate the impact of teacher support on academic buoyancy and academic enjoyment among Chinese university students in AI‐assisted classrooms. Part…
Motivational Attributes of Foreign Language Teachers
While the relationship between teacher attributes and the motivation and achievements of language learners has been extensively studied in the past decades, the relevant research that addresses the evolving educational context of China has been relatively limited. This study fills this knowledge gap by identifying distinctive attributes of English teachers shaped by China's traditional and modern educational context. These attributes are categori…
‘I've Got to Do This I've Just Got to Find My Way Through It!’
This paper shines a light on the influence of policy surrounding widening participation and the introduction of vocational qualifications and the increase in the number of mature part‐time students in higher education. This study involved adopting autoethnographic approaches and developing five biographical stories of part‐time mature, working‐class women on a Foundation Degree programme in England and its influence on self‐identity. Drawing upon…
The UK School Meals Service 1944–Present
This article explores the sensory and emotional dimensions of the UK School Meals Service (SMS) since 1944, arguing that the lived experiences of pupils, teachers, parents, catering staff, and policymakers have fundamentally shaped its history. The study combines archival documentary research with new oral history interviews and ethnographic case studies. It investigates how sensory experiences - such as taste, smell, and sound - have influenced …
Scale validation and latent profile identification of GenAI competence for pre-service second language teachers
Pre-service second language (L2) teachers can benefit from Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), yet there is a lack of reliable instrument to evaluate their GenAI competence. To fill this void, two studies were conducted. Study 1 aimed to create a GenAI Competence Scale for Chinese Pre-service L2 Teachers. Based on exploratory factor analysis of 350 samples, a 21-item scale was developed with a three-factor structure: Awareness and Willing…
Beyond the Digital Divide
GenAI could either exacerbate or alleviate inequalities in under‐resourced K12 EFL education, depending largely on teachers’ ability to utilize it. However, these teachers remain understudied. To address this digital divide, this mixed‐method study, grounded in Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory, aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of these teachers’ GenAI integration by exploring their GenAI literacy, perspectives, and barriers. Latent …
Food, Culture and Society in India
Exploring the entangled relationships between food, culture and society in India, this edited collection brings together empirically grounded research across diverse regions and contexts. Organised into four sections – Food, Culture and Identity; Food, Memory and Migration; Food, Livelihood and Nutrition; and Food, Consumption and Media – it highlights the complex roles food plays in shaping identity, mobility, labour and representation. Drawing …
Values in English and Swedish Pre School Teachers
This doctoral case study research aims to explore the values of English and Swedish pre-school teachers, focusing on their roles and the experiences they provide for 3 and 4-year-old children. Values are beliefs held by individuals to which they attach special worth or priority; and this research recognises that values are personalised and shaped by the social, cultural and political contexts in which the teachers are situated and they act as a p…
A Phenomenological Study on the Role of Teacher Communication Behaviours in High School Students' Willingness to Attend AI ‐Enhanced Classrooms
The present study adopted a phenomenological approach to explore how high school students perceive their teachers' rhetorical and relational communication behaviours in artificial intelligence (AI)‐supported classrooms and how these behaviours influence their willingness to attend such classes. Data were collected through semi‐structured interviews and written reflective narratives from a purposive sample of high school students ( n = 63) who reg…
A Comparative Study on the Influence of Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) on Student Creativity, Learning Outcomes and Attitudes in Product Design Education ( PDE )
AI has been introduced into design courses to enhance student learning outcomes, foster creativity, provide personalised learning support and improve design productivity. This study integrated AI tools as a facilitative aid in a creative product design course, focusing on examining students' learning outcomes and the creativity of their final products by comparing two groups: the T1 experimental group (AI use) and the T2 control group (no AI use)…
Food, Culture and Society in India
Exploring the entangled relationships between food, culture and society in India, this edited collection brings together empirically grounded research across diverse regions and contexts. Organised into four sections – Food, Culture and Identity; Food, Memory and Migration; Food, Livelihood and Nutrition; and Food, Consumption and Media – it highlights the complex roles food plays in shaping identity, mobility, labour and representation. Drawing …
Teaching comparative and international education (CIE) in UK universities
Can culinary capital be (re) produced in school
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, the paper draws on conceptions of culinary capital and socialisation to explore children’s experiences of mealtime in one academy school. In this paper, the author argues how ‘healthy eating’ interventions have led to the neglect of the social significance of dining together. The paper highlights how children’s culinary capital is reproduced in schools, whilst recognising the rising tensions between how eating s…
Culinary capital and conceptualisations of school mealtime
This paper presents ethnographic work conducted to investigate how notions of culinary capital have the potential to shape the everyday experiences of children during mealtime in school. Children's early experiences with mealtimes and food are critical determinants for eating behaviour over the life course. The paper presents an account of conceptual debates based on longstanding ethnographic work on school food with a particular focus on a case …
Doing qualitative research
Reflexive commitments tend to be lacking, particularly from the perspective of early career scholars. This is particularly true in relation to published research, but evident in doctoral studies exploring teachers work. Using principles of phenomenological reflexivity, this methodological paper explores the critical incidents that have come to shape a qualitative, ethnographical case study before entering the field. Key findings highlight four im…
Why are they making us rush?’ The school dining hall as surveillance mechanism, social learning, or child’s space
This is an author's accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Children's Geographies on 07/11/2023, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2023.2276280 The accepted manuscript may differ from the final published version
Schools, Space and Culinary Capital
This book introduces the notion of culinary capital to investigate socialisation and school mealtime experiences in an academy school based in the UK. Drawing on interviews collated from children, teachers and staff within the school, the text sheds light on food insecurity in society and schools as being major issue in educational policy. The book examines schools as a microcosm for society with school food space being the playground for sociali…
The Labor of Lunch
A review of the English school meal
This paper examines the discourse on school meals, as evidence suggests that political agendas feed into policy making. The paper fills a void by proposing new insights into how school meals could be reformed, following reflections from a doctoral study and a review of the changing narrative on school food in England. Recommendations include rethinking the coverage on school meals by taking into account this multifaceted area of inquiry by recogn…
The school restaurant
This paper presents a theoretically influenced discussion of methodological issues in carrying out ethnographic work at Peartree Academy. Food is central to our sense of identity. It draws on notions of the school restaurant and presents an account of the complexities surrounding the disorderliness of fieldwork in researching children’s food space. The aim of this paper is to explore how researcher identity needs to be considered within the relat…
Healthy meals, better learners? Debating the focus of school food policy in England
Policy makers in the UK are trying to improve school meals, by focusing on eating well. This article explores the way policies are framed by academic performance and health as a reason for providing school lunches. Using Nussbaum’s capability approach we argue that the purpose of schooling should be to provide young people with the ability to lead a life of choice. We argue that school meals are an important social good, which allow young people …
Healthy meals, better learners? Debating the focus of school food policy in England
Policy makers in the UK are trying to improve school meals, by focusing on eating well. This article explores the way policies are framed by academic performance and health as a reason for providing school lunches. Using Nussbaum’s capability approach we argue that the purpose of schooling should be to provide young people with the ability to lead a life of choice. We argue that school meals are an important social good, which allow young people …
The school restaurant
This paper presents a theoretically influenced discussion of methodological issues in carrying out ethnographic work at Peartree Academy. Food is central to our sense of identity. It draws on notions of the school restaurant and presents an account of the complexities surrounding the disorderliness of fieldwork in researching children’s food space. The aim of this paper is to explore how researcher identity needs to be considered within the relat…
Management and gender in higher education
The school restaurant
This paper presents a theoretically influenced discussion of methodological issues in carrying out ethnographic work at Peartree Academy. Food is central to our sense of identity. It draws on notions of the school restaurant and presents an account of the complexities surrounding the disorderliness of fieldwork in researching children’s food space. The aim of this paper is to explore how researcher identity needs to be considered within the relat…
Healthy meals, better learners? Debating the focus of school food policy in England
Policy makers in the UK are trying to improve school meals, by focusing on eating well. This article explores the way policies are framed by academic performance and health as a reason for providing school lunches. Using Nussbaum’s capability approach we argue that the purpose of schooling should be to provide young people with the ability to lead a life of choice. We argue that school meals are an important social good, which allow young people …
A review of the English school meal
This paper examines the discourse on school meals, as evidence suggests that political agendas feed into policy making. The paper fills a void by proposing new insights into how school meals could be reformed, following reflections from a doctoral study and a review of the changing narrative on school food in England. Recommendations include rethinking the coverage on school meals by taking into account this multifaceted area of inquiry by recogn…
Schools, Space and Culinary Capital
This book introduces the notion of culinary capital to investigate socialisation and school mealtime experiences in an academy school based in the UK. Drawing on interviews collated from children, teachers and staff within the school, the text sheds light on food insecurity in society and schools as being major issue in educational policy. The book examines schools as a microcosm for society with school food space being the playground for sociali…
The Labor of Lunch
Why are they making us rush?’ The school dining hall as surveillance mechanism, social learning, or child’s space
This is an author's accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Children's Geographies on 07/11/2023, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2023.2276280 The accepted manuscript may differ from the final published version
Can culinary capital be (re) produced in school
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, the paper draws on conceptions of culinary capital and socialisation to explore children’s experiences of mealtime in one academy school. In this paper, the author argues how ‘healthy eating’ interventions have led to the neglect of the social significance of dining together. The paper highlights how children’s culinary capital is reproduced in schools, whilst recognising the rising tensions between how eating s…
Culinary capital and conceptualisations of school mealtime
This paper presents ethnographic work conducted to investigate how notions of culinary capital have the potential to shape the everyday experiences of children during mealtime in school. Children's early experiences with mealtimes and food are critical determinants for eating behaviour over the life course. The paper presents an account of conceptual debates based on longstanding ethnographic work on school food with a particular focus on a case …
Doing qualitative research
Reflexive commitments tend to be lacking, particularly from the perspective of early career scholars. This is particularly true in relation to published research, but evident in doctoral studies exploring teachers work. Using principles of phenomenological reflexivity, this methodological paper explores the critical incidents that have come to shape a qualitative, ethnographical case study before entering the field. Key findings highlight four im…
Food, Culture and Society in India
Exploring the entangled relationships between food, culture and society in India, this edited collection brings together empirically grounded research across diverse regions and contexts. Organised into four sections – Food, Culture and Identity; Food, Memory and Migration; Food, Livelihood and Nutrition; and Food, Consumption and Media – it highlights the complex roles food plays in shaping identity, mobility, labour and representation. Drawing …
Values in English and Swedish Pre School Teachers
This doctoral case study research aims to explore the values of English and Swedish pre-school teachers, focusing on their roles and the experiences they provide for 3 and 4-year-old children. Values are beliefs held by individuals to which they attach special worth or priority; and this research recognises that values are personalised and shaped by the social, cultural and political contexts in which the teachers are situated and they act as a p…
A Phenomenological Study on the Role of Teacher Communication Behaviours in High School Students' Willingness to Attend AI ‐Enhanced Classrooms
The present study adopted a phenomenological approach to explore how high school students perceive their teachers' rhetorical and relational communication behaviours in artificial intelligence (AI)‐supported classrooms and how these behaviours influence their willingness to attend such classes. Data were collected through semi‐structured interviews and written reflective narratives from a purposive sample of high school students ( n = 63) who reg…
A Comparative Study on the Influence of Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) on Student Creativity, Learning Outcomes and Attitudes in Product Design Education ( PDE )
AI has been introduced into design courses to enhance student learning outcomes, foster creativity, provide personalised learning support and improve design productivity. This study integrated AI tools as a facilitative aid in a creative product design course, focusing on examining students' learning outcomes and the creativity of their final products by comparing two groups: the T1 experimental group (AI use) and the T2 control group (no AI use)…
Food, Culture and Society in India
Exploring the entangled relationships between food, culture and society in India, this edited collection brings together empirically grounded research across diverse regions and contexts. Organised into four sections – Food, Culture and Identity; Food, Memory and Migration; Food, Livelihood and Nutrition; and Food, Consumption and Media – it highlights the complex roles food plays in shaping identity, mobility, labour and representation. Drawing …
Teaching comparative and international education (CIE) in UK universities
Explaining Second Language Learners’ Willingness to Communicate with GenAI Voice Chatbots via SEM and fsQCA
Win-win food system approach to improve children’s nutrition
Purpose To describe the development of a healthy eating habits intervention in a school and to evaluate parents’ acceptability of this initiative. Design/methodology/approach This exploratory study was conducted between February and March 2022 in a public school serving children aged 1–4 years in São Paulo, Brazil. The school acted as an educational distribution channel. Interviews with school staff helped co-design four educational videos with s…
Dual Battles
This paper presents data from a small‐scale case study which reviewed the roles, pedagogies and identities of lecturers in dual positions working across further and higher education in England, UK. The following research questions were designed and framed with Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological model: (1) how do the roles of lecturers working across further and higher education in dual positions differ? (2) what pedagogical differences exist for …
From Inherited Learning to Dual‐Stage Learning
Education has long been a cornerstone of societal development, a structured system designed to transmit knowledge, foster growth, and prepare individuals for societal roles (Vega Chica & Valle Lituma, 2024). However, the traditional knowledge‐transmission‐based model faces big challenges in an era with rapid technological advancements (Li et al., 2024), particularly in artificial intelligence (AI). This perspective article discusses the foundatio…
Exploring the Impact of Teacher Support on Chinese University Students' Academic Buoyancy and Academic Enjoyment in AI ‐Assisted Learning
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated into educational settings, the role of teacher support in fostering students' adaptive capacities warrants greater attention. Grounded in Self‐Determination Theory (SDT), this mixed‐method study employed a quasi‐experimental design to investigate the impact of teacher support on academic buoyancy and academic enjoyment among Chinese university students in AI‐assisted classrooms. Part…
Motivational Attributes of Foreign Language Teachers
While the relationship between teacher attributes and the motivation and achievements of language learners has been extensively studied in the past decades, the relevant research that addresses the evolving educational context of China has been relatively limited. This study fills this knowledge gap by identifying distinctive attributes of English teachers shaped by China's traditional and modern educational context. These attributes are categori…
‘I've Got to Do This I've Just Got to Find My Way Through It!’
This paper shines a light on the influence of policy surrounding widening participation and the introduction of vocational qualifications and the increase in the number of mature part‐time students in higher education. This study involved adopting autoethnographic approaches and developing five biographical stories of part‐time mature, working‐class women on a Foundation Degree programme in England and its influence on self‐identity. Drawing upon…
The UK School Meals Service 1944–Present
This article explores the sensory and emotional dimensions of the UK School Meals Service (SMS) since 1944, arguing that the lived experiences of pupils, teachers, parents, catering staff, and policymakers have fundamentally shaped its history. The study combines archival documentary research with new oral history interviews and ethnographic case studies. It investigates how sensory experiences - such as taste, smell, and sound - have influenced …
Scale validation and latent profile identification of GenAI competence for pre-service second language teachers
Pre-service second language (L2) teachers can benefit from Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), yet there is a lack of reliable instrument to evaluate their GenAI competence. To fill this void, two studies were conducted. Study 1 aimed to create a GenAI Competence Scale for Chinese Pre-service L2 Teachers. Based on exploratory factor analysis of 350 samples, a 21-item scale was developed with a three-factor structure: Awareness and Willing…
Sociology (9 works) · Ethnography (8 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Qualitative research (8 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (7 works) · Higher education (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)