Caroline Heaton MbyRes, PGC (LTHE) (FHEA), BA
Senior Lecturer (Research, Evaluation and Student Engagement)
Summary
Caroline has held a variety of posts at Sheffield Hallam University, working within taught programmes administration, widening participation policy and research, academic and learner development, and student experience research and evaluation.
About
Caroline currently works in the Directorate of Student Engagement, Evaluation and Research, where she carries out research into the student learning experience, and supports the co-ordination of institution-wide student engagement in quality enhancement.
Publications
Journal articles
Donnelly, A., & Heaton, C. (2022). Becoming a survey whisperer: applying a video conferencing tool in cognitive interviews to improve a questionnaire used in higher education research. SAGE Research Methods Cases. http://doi.org/10.4135/9781529603583
Heaton, C. (2018). Review of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus (directed by Blanche McIntyre for the Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 17 August 2017. Shakespeare, 14 (3), 271-274. http://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2018.1450285
Heaton, C. (2017). Review of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (directed by Angus Jackson for the Royal Shakespeare Company) and Antony and Cleopatra (directed by Iqbal Khan for the Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 14 and 15 August 2017. Shakespeare, 14 (3), 250-255. http://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2017.1402812
Heaton, C. (2017). Julius Caesar, performed by Sheffield Theatres at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, UK, 24th May 2017. Early modern literary studies, 19 (2). https://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/journal/index.php/emls/index
Austen, L., Heaton, C., Jones-Devitt, S., & Pickering, N. (2017). Why is the BME attainment gap such a wicked problem? The Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change, 3 (1). http://doi.org/10.21100/jeipc.v3i1.587
Jones-Devitt, S., Austen, L., Chitwood, E., Donnelly, A., Fearn, C., Heaton, C., ... Pickering, N. (2017). Creation and confidence: BME students as academic partners…but where were the staff? Journal of Educational Innovation Partnership and Change, 3 (1), 278-285. http://doi.org/10.21100/jeipc.v3i1.580
Heaton, C. (2015). Review of Dekker and Middleton's The Roaring Girl (directed by Jo Davies for the Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 9 June 2014. Shakespeare, 11 (3), 316-318. http://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2015.1048282
Madriaga, M., Hanson, K., Heaton, C., Kay, H., Newitt, S., & Walker, A. (2010). Confronting similar challenges? : disabled and non‐disabled students’ learning and assessment experiences. Studies in Higher Education, 35 (6), 647-658. http://doi.org/10.1080/03075070903222633
Book chapters
Heaton, C. (2021). Only Northerners need apply? Northern Broadsides and ‘no-nonsense’ Shakespeare. In Hansen, A. (Ed.) Shakespeare in the North Place, Politics and Performance in England and Scotland. Edinburgh University Press: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shakespeare-in-the-north.html
Reports
Austen, L., Hodgson, R., Heaton, C., Pickering, N., & Dickinson, J. (2021). Access, retention, attainment and progression: an integrative review of demonstrable impact on student outcomes. Advance HE.
Theses / Dissertations
Heaton, C. (2016). Revolting Women, Roaring Girls and Bloody Men: The RSC in Stratford, 2014. (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Hopkins, L.