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37
Citations
8762
World Ranking
6136
National Ranking
995

Overview

Lorna Unwin is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily engages with topics within the social sciences, particularly focusing on education and human factors and ergonomics.

Their work covers several key topics including:

  • Innovative Education and Learning Practices
  • Higher Education and Employability
  • Higher Education Learning Practices

Unwin has contributed to the field through publications in notable venues. Their recent paper is titled "Expertise as a 'capacity for action': reframing vocational knowledge from the perspective of work" published in 2020 in the Journal of Vocational Education and Training.

Frequent coauthors in their collaborative work include:

  • David Guile
  • Alison Fuller

The main fields of study addressed in Unwin's research consist of:

  • Social Sciences

Subfields include:

  • Education
  • Human Factors and Ergonomics

Best Publications

  • Learning as peripheral participation in communities of practice: a reassessment of key concepts in workplace learning

    Alison Fuller;Heather Hodkinson;Phil Hodkinson;Lorna Unwin

  • Approaches to learning

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  • Learning as Apprentices in the Contemporary UK Workplace: creating and managing expansive and restrictive participation

    Alison Fuller;Lorna Unwin

  • Expansive learning environments : Integrating organizational and personal development

    Alison Fuller;Lorna Unwin

  • Improving Workplace Learning

    Karen Evans;Phil Hodkinson;Helen Rainbird;Lorna Unwin

  • Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives

    Jason Hughes;Nick Jewson;Lorna Unwin

  • Improving Working as Learning

    Alan Felstead;Alison Fuller;Nick Jewson;Lorna Unwin

  • Surveying the scene: learning metaphors, survey design and the workplace context

    Alan Felstead;Alison Fuller;Lorna Unwin;David Norman Ashton

  • Reconceptualising apprenticeship: exploring the relationship between work and learning

    Alison Fuller;Lorna Unwin

  • Young people as teachers and learners in the workplace : challenging the novice-expert dichotomy

    Alison Fuller;Lorna Unwin

  • Apprenticeship in the British 'Training Market'

    Paul Ryan;Lorna Unwin

  • Creating a 'Modern Apprenticeship': A critique of the UK's multi-sector, social inclusion approach

    Alison Fuller;Lorna Unwin

  • The significance of individual biography in workplace learning

    Phil Hodkinson;Heather Hodkinson;Karen Evans;Natasha Kersh

  • Workplace learning and the organization

    Alison Fuller;Lorna Unwin

  • Creating and using knowledge : an analysis of the differentiated nature of workplace learning environments

    Alison Fuller;Lorna Unwin;Alan Felstead;Nick Jewson

  • Change and continuity in apprenticeship: the resilience of a model of learning

    Alison Fuller;Lorna Unwin

  • Fostering workplace learning: looking through the lens of apprenticeship

    Alison Fuller;Lorna Unwin

  • Older and wiser? Workplace learning from the perspective of older employees

    Alison Fuller;Lorna Unwin

  • Developing pedagogies for the contemporary workplace

    Alison Fuller;Lorna Unwin

  • Working To Learn: Transforming Learning in the Workplace.

    Karen Evans;Philip Hodkinson;Lorna Unwin

  • Expansive learning environments: integrating personal and organisational development

    Alison Fuller;L. Unwin

Frequent Co-Authors

Alison Fuller
Alison Fuller University College London
Alan Felstead
Alan Felstead Cardiff University
Phil Hodkinson
Phil Hodkinson University of Leeds
Steven Jones
Steven Jones Lancaster University
Andy Green
Andy Green University College London

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