Alexander Vaniev

email: a.vaniev.1@research.gla.ac.uk

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vaniev/

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2930-3673

Research title: Exploring sociomaterial practices and core (f)actors contributing to early career academic teacher development: an actor-network theory perspective

Research Summary

My PhD study explores how UK early-career academics (ECAs), namely graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) and recently employed lecturers, navigate their early teaching experiences and develop their academic teaching practice.

I employ a poststructuralist and posthuman paradigm and a relational flat ontology approach, particularly an Actor-Network Theory (ANT) lens and Visual Network Analysis (VNA), to better understand the sociomaterial practices of developing teaching practice and the role of the interplay of humans and non-humans in shaping "becoming a university teacher".

Thus, I explore two main research questions:

  • RQ1. How is the teaching development of early career academics enacted, experienced, and practised in the UK higher education context?
  • RQ2. What sociomaterial practices contribute to the teaching development of UK-based early career academics?
    • RQ1.1. What are the involved (f)actors?
    • RQ1.2. How do they relate to each other?
    • RQ1.3. What effects do they produce?

Publications

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2025

Vaniev, Alexander ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2930-3673 (2025) Exploring the sociomaterial practices of graduate teaching assistant development through actor-network theory: an autoethnographic study. Postgraduate Pedagogies, 5(1), pp. 59-82. (doi: 10.82191/pp.81)

Ross, Micky ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1418-4384, Raymond, Tom, Marren, Aneta ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0379-7726 and Vaniev, Alexander ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2930-3673 (2025) Staff Perspective of Student Voice and its (In)Authenticity in Reflective Writing for Summative Assessment. BALEAP Conference 2025, Plymouth, UK, 14-17 April 2025.

Vaniev, Alexander ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2930-3673 and Malt-Cullen, Michael (2025) Mapping pedagogies of education for sustainable development in Scottish higher education institutions. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 31(1), pp. 211-231. (doi: 10.1177/14779714241260528)

2024

Ross, Micky ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1418-4384, Marren, Aneta ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0379-7726, Bohlmann, Julia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0724-6671, Dickson, Nic ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0084-605X, Vaniev, Alexander ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2930-3673 and Raymond, Tom (2024) The Reflective Writing Survey and Resource: investigating the practice of reflective writing for summative assessment at the University of Glasgow. 17th Annual University of Glasgow Learning & Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 09 Apr 2024.

2023

Drugova, Elena A. and Vaniev, Alexander I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2930-3673 (2023) Learning design using the four-component instructional design model (4C/ID) in higher education: review of studies. RUDN Journal of Psychology and Pedagogics, 20(4), pp. 747-771.

Vaniev, Alexander ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2930-3673 and Malt-Cullen, Michael (2023) Introducting Pedagogy to SDGs in Higher Education: An Actor-network Theory Perspective. HER 2023 | Sustainable Development Goals: Their potential and relevance for higher education policy and reform, University of Glasgow, 21-23 June 2023. (doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.21400.37126)

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Articles

Vaniev, Alexander ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2930-3673 (2025) Exploring the sociomaterial practices of graduate teaching assistant development through actor-network theory: an autoethnographic study. Postgraduate Pedagogies, 5(1), pp. 59-82. (doi: 10.82191/pp.81)

Vaniev, Alexander ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2930-3673 and Malt-Cullen, Michael (2025) Mapping pedagogies of education for sustainable development in Scottish higher education institutions. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 31(1), pp. 211-231. (doi: 10.1177/14779714241260528)

Drugova, Elena A. and Vaniev, Alexander I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2930-3673 (2023) Learning design using the four-component instructional design model (4C/ID) in higher education: review of studies. RUDN Journal of Psychology and Pedagogics, 20(4), pp. 747-771.

Conference or Workshop Item

Ross, Micky ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1418-4384, Raymond, Tom, Marren, Aneta ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0379-7726 and Vaniev, Alexander ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2930-3673 (2025) Staff Perspective of Student Voice and its (In)Authenticity in Reflective Writing for Summative Assessment. BALEAP Conference 2025, Plymouth, UK, 14-17 April 2025.

Ross, Micky ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1418-4384, Marren, Aneta ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0379-7726, Bohlmann, Julia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0724-6671, Dickson, Nic ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0084-605X, Vaniev, Alexander ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2930-3673 and Raymond, Tom (2024) The Reflective Writing Survey and Resource: investigating the practice of reflective writing for summative assessment at the University of Glasgow. 17th Annual University of Glasgow Learning & Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 09 Apr 2024.

Vaniev, Alexander ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2930-3673 and Malt-Cullen, Michael (2023) Introducting Pedagogy to SDGs in Higher Education: An Actor-network Theory Perspective. HER 2023 | Sustainable Development Goals: Their potential and relevance for higher education policy and reform, University of Glasgow, 21-23 June 2023. (doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.21400.37126)

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Conferences

2025

  • [SRHE] Vaniev A. (2025, December 2-4). Exploring and Mapping Sociomaterial Practices and Experiences of Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) Development through Actor-Network Theory [Conference presentation]. Society for Research in Higher Education Conference, Nottingham, United Kingdom. https://srhe.ac.uk/2025-conference-programme/
  • [SRHE] Vaniev A. (2025, December 2-4). Mapping Sociomaterial Practices and (f)Actors Contributing to Early Career Academic Teaching Development [Conference presentation]. Society for Research in Higher Education Conference, Nottingham, United Kingdom. https://srhe.ac.uk/2025-conference-programme/
  • [ECER @ EERA]  Vaniev A. (2025, September 9-12). Exploring sociomaterial practices and forms of resistance in early career academic teacher development: an actor-network theory perspective [Conference presentation]. European Conference on Educational Research (European Educational Research Association), Belgrade, Serbia. https://eera-ecer.de/conferences/ecer-2025-belgrade/ecer-programme/ecer-timetable
  • [ERC @ EERA] Vaniev A. (2025, September 8-9). Exploring Sociomaterial Practices and Experiences of Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) Teaching Development with Actor-Network Theory [Conference presentation]. Emerging Researchers' Conference (European Educational Research Association), Belgrade, Serbia. https://eera-ecer.de/conferences/ecer-2025-belgrade/emerging-researchers-conference/erc-timetable
  • [UKCGE] Vaniev A. (2025, July 1). Navigating international PGR parenting [Conference presentation]. Annual Conference 2025 — The Hidden Lives of PGRs, Glasgow, United Kingdom. https://ukcge.ac.uk/events/annual-conference-2025-hidden-lives-pgrs
  • [ISATT] Vaniev A. (2025, Jun 30 - Jul 4). Exploring the Transferability of Non-Formal Education Train-the-Trainer Practices to Academic Development [Conference presentation]. International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching Conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom. https://www.gla.ac.uk/events/conferences/isatt2025/programme/

2024

2023

 

Teaching

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