Papers, talks, a thesis
Writing
The official lists live on my Liverpool profile and ORCID. This page adds a short note on each. Some are about tools on this site. Some are from earlier, when I was at Cetis or Bolton.
Find me
- Liverpool
University page. Job title, contact, publications.
- ORCID
Same ID across papers.
- ResearchGate
Thesis copy. Other papers from that page.
- Google Scholar
Citations. Still thinks I am a PhD student at Bolton.
- GitHub
Repos for the tools on this site.
- D.Sherlock@liverpool.ac.uk
Work email. CEDS, Liverpool.
2026
- A Bespoke Comparative Judgement Tool: Feedback-rich assessment through simple comparisons
Workshop with Sean Goodman, piloting the tool with colleagues from around the university.
On this site: Comparative Judgement
- The use of AI to summarize peer feedback
Short piece on using GPT to summarise the pile of comments this app collects on student posters.
On this site: Comparative Judgement
2024
- Everything Compares to You: Development and Evaluation of an Online Comparative Judgment Application for Assessment
Conference digital showcase about building and evaluating the app.
On this site: Comparative Judgement
- SCLINGO: Go’ed its Boss! Socialising International Students into Scouse in the UK Healthcare System
Poster. Rebecca invented the cardboard version; this is that session on a wall.
On this site: Clingo
- ScLINGO? Go'ed, it's BoSS! Socialising International students into Scouse in the UK Health System
Conference talk. Same story, shorter, with the Scouse title doing some of the work.
On this site: Clingo
- The Impact of Language and Social Communication on the Sense of Belonging among International Students Using ScLINGO Application
The writeup. Cardboard bingo to a web game, then a pilot with MSc mental health nursing students.
On this site: Clingo
2021
- Developing the understanding of data-relationships and digital surveillance through collaborative activities between an IT professional and users of communications technologies
The thesis itself. Supervised by Professor Dai Griffiths.
On this site: Data-relationships and digital surveillance
2017
- Development of a VLE Recipe for xAPI: process and implications
Cetis work with Jisc: a recipe so VLEs send the same xAPI statements. We invented the process as we went, Google Docs then GitHub.
2014
- Beyond the Personal Learning Environment: attachment and control in the classroom of the future
A critical-friend conversation from the PhD years, about attachment, control, and what the models were missing.
On this site: Data-relationships and digital surveillance
- Problems and opportunities in the use of technology to manage informal learning
TRAILER project writeup: wrapping the footprint scripts into a tool learners could actually use.
On this site: Data-relationships and digital surveillance
2013
- Cetis Analytics Series: Infrastructure and Tools for Analytics
White paper on the analytics plumbing, written while I was still mostly thinking about learning data rather than surveillance.
On this site: Data-relationships and digital surveillance
2009
- Learner reflexivity, technology and 'making our way through the world'
TrackMe, habits, Archer. Ancestor of the later worry about what platforms do with you.
2008
- Personal Transparency and self-analytic tools for online Habits
Same TrackMe idea, earlier, in a workshop in Bulgaria.