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'Enhancing Graduate Impact' Case Studies Available for Download

Date: 18-July-2011 

The 16 case studies that make up the recently-published HLST/BMAF book 'Enhancing Graduate Impact in Business, Management, Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism' are now available for free download.

'Enhancing Graduate Impact', the fifth book in the 'Enhancing...' series, and was edited by Patsy Kemp (HLST) and Richard Atfield (BMAF) and published by Threshold Press earlier this month. Single complimentary hard copies can be obtained by emailing BMAF (bmaf@brookes.ac.uk). To purchase multiple or additional hard copies, contact Threshold Press.

The individual case studies that make up the book can be downloaded below:

• Graduate impact, student employability and academic integrity: exploring the link 
  Erica Morris (Higher Education Academy)
• Engaging students, staff and employers in enhancing graduate impact: a general method and its use with the Tourism Management programme at the University of Gondar 
  Mark Goodwin, Gojjam Ademe, Martin Pennington, Craig Bartle and Paul Jackson (Univeristy of Leicester and University of Gondar)
• Graduates with Impact: profiling the experiences of international postgraduate students prior to their arrival in the UK, their experiences while studying in the UK, their experiences back in their own country and their impact in the workplace 
  Julia Pointon (De Montfort University)
• The WoW® concept and the curriculum / student experience 
  Sarah Nixon and Terry Dray (Liverpool John Moores University)
• Developing ethical thinking with undergraduates in sport and exercise science 
  Grace Robinson and Karen Llewellyn (University of Leeds)
• Middlesex University Mentoring Network: Student perspectives of their learning journey and opportunities for impact 
  Julie Haddock-Millar, Nwamaka Onyiuke, Helen Villalobos, Raymond Asumadu, Gifty Gabor and Tulsi Derodra (University of Middlesex)
• Embedding Graduate skills 
  Leigh Wood and Anne Daly (Macquarie University andUniversity of Canberra)
• Enhancing Graduate Impact - Tourism Marketing Practice 
  Steve Jones and Greig Headley (Leeds Metropolitan University)
• Any Volunteers? - an employability case study 
  Andrea Cameron (Abertay University)
• Developing students into creative managers 
  Kym Drady and Joan Harvey (University of Sunderland and Newcastle University)
• Shaping Future Fashion Leaders 
  Liz Gee and Heather Pickard (London College of Fashion)
• From small changes to maximum impact: a case study Kevin Nield and Trevor Simper (Sheffield Hallam University)
• Using student part- time work as a site for structured credit-rated undergraduate work-based learning' 
  Chrissy Ogilvie and Sue Shaw (Manchester Metropolitan University)
• Developing professional values and behaviours in the context of virtual learning environments 
  Karen Barton and Fiona Westwood (University of Strathclyde)
• Enhancing graduate skills for a knowledge-based economy: a case study of a happy collaboration between a module leader and information specialists at Sheffield Hallam University 
  Diane Rushton, Alison Lahlafi and Erica Stretton (Sheffield Hallam University)
• Formalised student volunteering opportunities - impacts in sport development and coaching 
  Melissa Anderson, Lucy Wheatley, Mike Wall and Richard Tong (UWIC)

For more information on the 'Enhancing...' series of books, visit the Enhancing Series Page.