Role
Verity is currently the Director for Doctoral Programmes within the School of Social Sciences, working with PGR candidates, supervisory teams and the central services team NTU Doctoral. Alongside this role, she is the course leader for the BA (Hons) Education Studies course. She teaches on modules across all years such as Outdoor Learning, Lifelong Learning, Research skills and the Sociology of Education.
Research areas
Verity’s research interests include English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP), student and early career writing experiences, Higher and Doctoral Education. Her work draws from sociological and philosophical perspectives in the areas of risk, wellbeing, inclusivity and slow philosophy. She is a qualitative researcher with experience using creative methods.
External activity
Verity is the Deputy Chair for the executive committee of The International Education Studies Association (TIESA).
She is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes.
She is also the Postgraduate Programme Examiner for the Doctorate of Education (EdD) at the University of Sheffield.
Publications
Aiken, V. & Norton, L. (2026) Writing Partnerships in Higher Education: A guide for academics and HE professionals. Routledge Writing Partnerships in Higher Education: A Guide for Academics and HE
Aiken, V. (2024) Cultivating an organic approach? Exploring new possibilities for a mentorship framework designed for supporting scholarly publication. In: Habibe, P and Kohls, R. (Eds) Mentorship in scholarly publications: Narratives and practices. London: Routledge
Aiken, V. and Blaj-Ward, L. (2023) Making the home a site for slow, caring scholarship: gendered experiences of writing for publication in Covid-19 times and beyond. In: Hultgren, K. and Habibie, P. (Eds) Women in Scholarly Publication. London: Routledge
Aiken, V. (2022). Corriente, cwtch and cultural histories: can translanguaging break down the academic language barrier? [Online]. The Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.51428/tsr.oumw9314
Aiken, V. (2021) Academic literacies and the tilts within: the push and pull of student writing. Teaching in Higher Education. 28 (8) Full article: Academic literacies and the tilts within: the push and pull of student writing