Dr Barry Avery

About

I am an associate professor in the Accounting, Finance and Informatics department with the role of Director of Learning and Teaching, having taught in Kingston Business School for the last 21 years. Alongside my academic work, I also perform the occasional IT consultancy projects and have worked for companies such as Unilever and Thomson Reuters, as an Information Architect and developer.

I recently completed my PhD at Lancaster University, which examines the use of Technology Enhanced Learning with Assessment. I was recently awarded a University Teaching Fellowship and this will feed-forward into my work on learning gain.

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Academic responsibilities

School Director Learning & Teaching

Qualifications

  • PhD Technology Enhanced Learning
  • PGDip Database Systems
  • PGCE Education
  • BSc (Hons) Computer Science
  • Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy
  • CMBE

Teaching and learning

I teach a variety of technical subjects at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels including informations systems; building digital system; database systems and web technologies. 

Undergraduate courses taught

Postgraduate courses taught

Research

I research in the area of Technology Enhanced Learning, with a specific focus on assessment practices. 

Publications

Number of items: 32.

Article

Southall, J., Wason, H. and Avery, B. (2016) The transition to Higher Education for non-traditional, commuter students - a synthesis of recent literature to enhance understanding of their needs. Student Engagement and Experience Journal, 5(1), ISSN (online) 2047-9476

Preston, John, Avery, Barry, Chakrabarty, Namita and Edmonds, Casey (2011) Emergency preparedness as public pedagogy: the absent–presence of race in ‘Preparing for Emergencies’. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 30(6), pp. 749-762. ISSN (print) 0260-1370

Book Section

Avery, Barry and Wason, Hilary (2022) Pivoting a Business Schools teaching online. In: Jamil, M.G. and Morley, D.A., (eds.) Agile learning environments amid disruption : evaluating academic innovations in higher education during COVID-19. Palgrave Macmillan. (In Press)

Avery, Barry, Lees, Rebecca and Russell, Daniel (2020) Empowering students through co-creation, continuity and continuous assessment. In: Mawani, Sharmina and Mukadam, Anjoom A., (eds.) Student empowerment in higher education : reflecting on teaching practice and learner engagement. Berlin, Germany : Logos Verlag. pp. 439-452. 1 ISBN 9783832550899

Casanova, Diogo, Price, Linda and Avery, Barry (2018) Supporting sustainable policy and practices for online learning education. In: Azeiteiro, Ulisses M. , Leal Filho, Walter and Aires, Luisa, (eds.) Climate literacy and innovations in climate change education: distance learning for sustainable development. Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing. pp. 323-339. (Climate Change Management) ISSN (print) 1610-2010 ISBN 9783319701981

Davis, Jane, Prescott, Debbie, Avery, Barry and Oberg, Hans (2017) A doctoral community of practice: a spatial entity across social media. In: McDonald, Jacquie and Cater-Steel, Aileen, (eds.) Implementing communities of practice in higher education : dreamers and schemers. Singapore : Springer Singapore. pp. 305-324. ISBN 9789811028656

Benson, Vladlena and Avery, Barry (2009) Embedding Web 2.0 strategies in learning and teaching. In: Lytras, Miltiadis D. , Damiani, Ernesto and Ordonez de Pablos, Patricia, (eds.) Web 2.0: the business model. New York, U.S. : Springer US. pp. 237-248. ISBN 9780387858951

Martland, David and Avery, Barry (2004) Developing wireless communications for interactive classroom use in business and computing. In: Ferdig, Richard , Crawford, Caroline , Carlsen, Roger , Davis, Niki , Price, Jerry , Weber, Roberta and Willis, Dee Anna, (eds.) Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004. Chesapeake, VA, U.S. : Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). pp. 1787-1792. ISBN 1880094525

Conference or Workshop Item

Wilson, Summer and Avery, Barry (2023) Using gamification to engage final year Accounting students. In: LTSE 2023 : Learning, Teaching, Student Experience; 22-23 May 2023, Newport, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Avery, Barry, Lees, Becky and Roberts, Ian (2021) Business not as usual : adapting a business school to hybrid learning in response to the pandemic. In: Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Conference 2021; 29 - 30 Jun 2021, Held online.

Avery, Barry, Lees, Rebecca and Russell, Daniel (2019) Commuter students : are you local? In: Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Annual Research Conference 2019 : Creativity, Criticality and Conformity in Higher Education; 11 - 13 Dec 2019, Newport, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Lees, Rebecca, Avery, Barry and Russell, Daniel (2019) Engaging and empowering students through inter- and intra-module continuity. In: Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Annual Research Conference 2019 : Creativity, Criticality and Conformity in Higher Education; 11 - 13 Dec 2019, Newport, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Avery, Barry, Lees, Rebecca and Russell, Daniel (2019) Using co-construction and continuous assessment to empower and engage first year students. In: Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Annual Research Conference 2019 : Creativity, Criticality and Conformity in Higher Education; 11 - 13 Dec 2019, Newport, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Avery, Barry, Lees, Rebecca and Russell, Daniel (2019) Empowering students through co-creation, continuity and continuous assessment. In: Kingston University's Annual Festival of Learning 2019; 25 Jun 2019, Kingston, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Price, Linda, Downward, Stuart, Lawrence, David, Avery, Barry, Preston, Anne, Dias Fonseca, Tania, Vyas, Nora, Lock, Nick, Alsop, Graham, Orwell, Suzan, Beardsmore, James and Casanova, Diogo (2017) Putting technology in the frame : multiple lenses on evidenced based practice in a university wide roll out. In: HEA Annual Conference 2017 - Generation TEF : Teaching in the spotlight; 04 - 06 Jul 2017, Manchester, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Avery, Barry, Russell, Daniel and Wason, Hilary (2016) Commuting, working, attending and performing: the changing route to academic attainment and progression during the first year. In: Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Annual Research Conference 2016: Exploring Freedom and Control in Global Higher Education; 07-09 Dec 2016, Newport, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Anderson, Deborah, Avery, Barry, Lees, Rebecca, Russell, Dan, Southall, Jane and Wason, Hilary (2016) Meeting the challenge of Business School accreditation with pedagogic research. In: Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Annual Research Conference 2016: Exploring Freedom and Control in Global Higher Education; 07-09 Dec 2016, Newport, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Anderson, Deborah, Lees, Rebecca, Avery, Barry and Russell, Daniel (2016) Analysing a research group 'start-up' through the communities of practice lens. In: British Educational Research Association (BERA) Annual Conference 2016; 13-15 Sep 2016, Leeds, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Russell, Daniel and Avery, Barry (2016) Using mathematics and IT in harmony: a learning approach. In: British Educational Research Association (BERA) Annual Conference 2016; 13-15 Sep 2016, Leeds, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Anderson, Deborah, Avery, Barry and Lees, Rebecca (2016) Social capital : a framework for innovative marketing pedagogy? In: 45th European Marketing Academy (EMAC) Annual Conference: Marketing in the Age of Data; 24-27 May 2016, Oslo, Norway.

Anderson, Deborah, Avery, Barry and Southall, Jane (2016) Addressing problems faced by 'commuter' students in higher education. In: British Educational Research Association (BERA) Annual Conference 2016; 13-15 Sep 2016, Leeds, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Anderson, Deborah, Avery, Barry and Lees, Rebecca (2016) Developing social capital : a close-up look at pedagogic practices. In: Higher Education Close Up 8 (HECU8): Locating Social Justice in Close-Up Reserach in Higher Education; 18-20 Jul 2016, Lancaster, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Avery, Barry, Anderson, Deborah and Passera, Mark (2015) Social capital: a framework for innovative learning and teaching? In: Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Annual Research Conference 2015; 9-11 Dec 2015, Newport, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Russell, Daniel J., Avery, Barry, Southall, Jane and Wason, Hilary (2015) Addressing transition to university by using collaboration in assessment. In: Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Annual Research Conference 2015; 9-11 Dec 2015, Newport, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Russell, Daniel J and Avery, Barry (2015) Enhancing engagement through collaboration in assessment. In: 5th Assessment in Higher Education Conference (AHEC); 24-25 Jun 2015, Birmingham, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Russell, Daniel and Avery, Barry (2015) Improving learning through engagement: students as collaborators in assessment. In: 14th European Conference on Research Methodology (ECRM) for Business and Management Studies; 11-12 Jun 2015, Valletta, Malta. ISSN (print) 2049-0968 ISBN 9781910810118

Anderson, Deborah, Lees, Becky and Avery, Barry (2015) Reviewing the literature using the Thematic Analysis Grid. In: 14th European Conference on Research Methodology (ECRM) for Business and Management Studies; 11-12 Jun 2015, Valletta, Malta. ISSN (print) 2049-0968 ISBN 9781910810118

Lees, Rebecca, Anderson, Deborah and Avery, Barry (2015) Student conceptions of employability : a phenomenographic study. In: 14th European Conference on Research Methodology (ECRM) for Business and Management Studies; 11-12 Jun 2015, Valletta, Malta. ISSN (print) 2049-0968 ISBN 9781910810118

Lees, Rebecca, Anderson, Deborah and Avery, Barry (2015) Student conceptions of employability: a phenomenographic study. In: Festival of Learning 2015; 12-16 Jan 2015, Kingston Upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Anderson, Deborah, Lees, Becky and Avery, Barry (2015) The Thematic Analysis Grid: a strategy for successful literature review writing. In: Festival of Learning 2015; 12-16 Jan 2015, Kingston Upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Steinitz, Dominic, Reade, Chris, Russell, Dan, Molyneux, Phil and Avery, Barry (2001) Haskell: language for business systems. In: 3rd Scottish Functional Programming Workshop; 22 - 24 Aug 2001, Stirling, U.K..

Database or Web Resource

Preston, John [Research team member], Chakrabarty, Namita [Research team member] and Avery, Barry [Research team member] (2010) Preparedness pedagogies.

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