Journal articles
2025
Mills, J., Beynen, T., Chia, I., Fitzgerald, R., Hall, K., Lai, E., Mason, J. and Newell, S. 鈥楻e-thinking SoTL for the Age of GenAI: Diffracted, Entangled, and Human.鈥� Teaching and Learning Inquiry. Accepted.
2024
Cunningham, C. and Mills, J. (2024). 鈥楪low Up: the power of fiction in higher education research', Teaching in Higher Education. DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2024.2359700.
2021
Carr, J., Cunningham, C., Mills, J. and Taylor, N. (2021) "It's all fun and games until someone loses an 'I'", The Journal of Play in Adulthood3(2), p.62-81. doi:
2020
Cunningham, C. and Mills, J. (2020) 鈥楥aged (Educational) birds: a hybrid metaphorical enquiry鈥�, International Journal for Academic Development,
Book chapters
Newell, S., Beynen, T., Mills, J., Mason, J., Chia, I., Lai, E., Fitzgerald, R., and Hall, K. (2024). 鈥楨quitable integration of GenAI in Higher Education: Insights from current practices and educator attitudes鈥� in Beckingham, S., Lawrence, J., Powell, S. and Hartley, P. (eds) Using Generative AI effectively in Higher Education: sustainable and ethical Artificial Intelligence for the common good, London: Routledge.
Mills, J., Carr, J., Taylor, N., and Cunningham, C. (2024) 'Expertise is . . . never having to say you are sorry. Academic development and the artistry of improvisation' in King, H. (ed.)The Artistry of Teaching in Higher Education: Practical Ideas for Developing Creative Academic Practice. London: Routledge.
Mills, J. and King, E.L., (2019) 鈥楨SCAPE! Puzzling out learning theories through play.鈥� in James, A. and Nerantzi, C. (eds) The Power of Play in Higher Education: Creativity in Tertiary Learning, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Mills, J. (2009) 鈥楻ape and the Construction of Female Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century鈥� in Peakman, J. (ed.) Sexual Perversions, 1670-1880, London: Palgrave.
Conference Papers
2023
Mills, J. and Cunningham, C. (2023, November). 'Unlived experiences: bringing SoTL to life through fiction', workshop at the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference (ISSOTL), Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Hanstedt, P., Cunningham, C., Mills, J., and Gray, R. (2023, November). 'Literature as lens: rereading higher education and its contexts to better understand teaching, universities, and SoTL', Poster presented at International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference (ISSOTL), Utrecht, The Netherlands.
2022
Mills, J., Carr, J., Taylor, N. and Cunningham, C. (2022, October). 鈥楨xpertise is . . . never having to say you are sorry: academic development and the artistry of improvisation鈥�. Exploring Expertise for Teaching in Higher Education: The Artistry of Teaching symposium, University of the West of England/University of 海角社区.
Mills, J. (2022, June). 鈥榊ou've been framed: reflective practice or pastiche?鈥� Poster presented at International Consortium for International Development (ICED), Aarhus, Denmark.
2021
Mills, J. and Fossey, P. (2021, November). 鈥楬ard to place: why post-pandemic teaching doesn鈥檛 fit the PG Cert mould鈥�, recorded presentation for Online Symposium: Adapting and thriving: the PG Cert in Teaching in Higher Education鈥�, University of Birmingham, available online.
Mills, J. and Cunningham, C. (2021). 鈥楾he eye of the beholder鈥�: beauty, subjectivity and meaning in educational research. Paper accepted for the International Academic Identities Conference, Roskilde, Denmark but unable to attend due to COVID-19 pandemic.
2019
Gramaglia, L. and Mills, J. (2019, June) 鈥楶athways to Fellowship: Recognising practice, impact and leadership in HE teaching and learning鈥�, Learning and Teaching Conference, Monash University, Melbourne.
2018
Mills, J., Hattersley, S., Humphreys, J. and Rupp, W. (2018, July). 鈥楶athways to Fellowship: Roads less travelled鈥�, Advance HE, Birmingham.
Mills, J.(2018, June). 鈥楽pinning Dancers: a provocation鈥�, 'Humanising learning and teaching 鈥� what the Arts and Humanities can do for learning and teaching in an age of metrics鈥�, University of Stirling, Scotland.
2016
Cunningham, C. and Mills, J. (2016, December). 鈥楥aged (Educational) birds: a hybrid metaphorical enquiry鈥�, Society for Research into Higher Education Annual Conference, Newport, Wales.
2015
Carr, J., Cunningham, C., Osborn, J. and Taylor, N. (2015, September). 鈥楲acunae of enchantments: unfolding spaces 鈥榠n which it is once more possible to think 鈥� and act鈥�, Re-enchanting the Academy, Canterbury.
Osborn, J. Keynote: 'Flipping the HE classroom into the future鈥�, CNaPPES, Leiria, Portugal, July 2015.
Osborn, J. Keynote: 鈥業nspiring teaching: transforming learning鈥�, Survival of the fittest?鈥� A symposium about Dance, Drama and Music in HE, February 2015.
Osborn, J. and Taylor, N. 鈥楲ids up or lids down? Technology in the HE classroom', HEA enhancement event, London, January 2015.
2014
Mills, J. Keynote: 鈥楲earning, teaching and other stories鈥�, LASALLE College of Art, Singapore, September 2014.
Chick, N., Cunningham, C., Loads, D. and Osborn, J.(2014, June). 鈥楳ethodological and epistemological shifts in the scholarship of learning and teaching 鈥� making a case for the Arts & Humanities鈥�, ICED, Stockholm, Sweden.
Cunningham, C. and Osborn, J.(2014, June) 鈥楥hallenging world views: what can narratives of learning and teaching tell us about academic development?鈥� ICED, Stockholm, Sweden.
Carr, J., Osborn, J. and Taylor, N. (2014, April). 鈥楻esearching learning and teaching practice: exchanging narratives to articulate change鈥�, Discourse, Power, and Resistance, Greenwich, UK.
2013
Carr, J., Cunningham, C., Osborn, J. and Taylor, N. (2013, December). 鈥楾he role of performance and narration in translating professional standards into practice: four different analytical models鈥�, Society for Research into Higher Education Annual Conference, Newport, Wales.
Cunningham, C. and Osborn, J.(2013, October). 鈥楰issing the frog: transforming teachers by turning poetry into praxis鈥�, ISSOTL, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
Cunningham, C. and Osborn, J.(2013, May). 鈥樷�業maginary gardens with real toads: using poetry as metaphor in our own practice鈥�, Storyville, Higher Education Academy Arts and Humanities Annual Conference, Brighton, UK.
2009
Beard, J. and Osborn, J.(2009, October). 鈥淚nvestigative approaches to student transitions by practitioners鈥�, ISSOTL, Bloomington, Indiana.
Blog posts
鈥榃e may be in the gutter鈥�, Lacunae: a generative learning space, 7 April 2020. Available at
鈥楲ove acts: swipe left鈥�, Lacunae: a generative learning space, 13 February 2020. Available at
Creating compassionate spaces in higher education, LSE Higher Education blog, 15 November 2019. Available at
鈥楾he embeddedness scale鈥�, LSE Higher Education blog, 21 June 2019. Available at
