2026WILD Paper
What The System Cannot See: How Human Capability is Formed And Why The Next Phase of the Young People and Work Review Must Learn to See it
A response to the Young People and Work review arguing that the system measures attendance and attainment but misses the capability layer that determines whether a young person engages, persists or disengages — and that formation, not another framework, must be the next phase.
Crick, Ferrier, Crichton-Allan & Huang · WILD Learning Sciences CIC
2026WILD Paper
The Reckoning That Never Comes: Why Formation, Not Another Framework, Is What Breaks the Pattern of British Institutional Failure
A century of British inquiries has produced excellent frameworks and the same failures. This paper argues that what fails is the human infrastructure inside institutions — and that formation, not another framework, is what breaks the pattern.
Victoria Ferrier · WILD Learning Sciences CIC
2021Peer-reviewed
Framing Professional Learning Analytics as Reframing Oneself
Proposes a reframing of professional learning analytics around the development of identity and agency, integrating learning analytics with the formation of the professional self.
Buckingham-Shum, Littlejohn, Kitto & Crick · IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
2020Peer-reviewed
Becoming a Resilient Organisation: Integrating People and Practice in Infrastructure Services
Explores the conceptual space between learning for resilient agency and the technical resilience required for sustainability in infrastructure services, through a case study of an Australian water utility.
Crick & Bentley · International Journal of Sustainable Engineering
2016Peer-reviewed
Learning Journeys And Infrastructure Services: A Game Changer For Effectiveness
Presents the learning journey as a framework for designing change strategies into business processes, integrating digital and social learning infrastructures to improve organisational agility, collaboration and value.
Crick, Huang, Godfrey, Taylor & Carhart · University of Bristol / University of Technology, Sydney
2015Peer-reviewed
Developing Resilient Agency in Learning: The Internal Structure of Learning Power
A reanalysis of 15 years of Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory data, generating a more robust measurement model of learning power as resilient agency in learning.
Deakin Crick, Huang, Ahmed Shafi & Goldspink · British Journal of Educational Studies, 63(2), 121–160