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Fowle, Wendy and Butcher, John (2019). 'Taking me back to my school days...'The experiences of adult learners from disadvantaged backgrounds in a distance learning HE environment. In: Broadhead, S. and Butcher, John eds. Transformative Higher Education - Access, Inclusion and Lifelong Learning. London: Forum for Access and Continuing Education, pp. 169–192.

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Butcher, John and Fowle, Wendy (2018). Outreaching: two approaches to outreach with adult learners from disadvantaged backgrounds (and an emerging evaluation toolkit). In: Broadhead, Sam; Butcher, John; Hill, Michael; McKendry, Stephanie; Raven, Neil; Sims, David and Ward, Tom eds. Concepts of Value and Worth: National and International Perspectives on Widening Access and Participation. Forum for Access and Continuing Education, pp. 207–229.

Fowle, Wendy and Butcher, John (2017). Do you have to be mobile to be socially mobile? Adult learners miss out again! In: Broadhead, S.; Hill, M.; Hudson, A.; McGlynn, C.; McKendry, S.; Raven, N.; Sims, D. and Ward, T. eds. Widening Participation in the Context of Economic and Social Change. Forum for Access and Continuing Education (FACE), pp. 153–162.

Little, Stephen Edgar; Fowle, Wendy and Quintas, Paul (2003). Building and maintaining distributed communities of practice: knowledge management in the OUBS MBA. In: Kaye, Roland and Hawkridge, David eds. Learning and teaching for business: case studies of successful innovation. London, UK: Kogan Page, pp. 179–195.

Quintas, Paul and Fowle, Wendy (2003). Managing knowledge: a community of practice and learning. In: Bentzen-Bilkvist, A.; Gijselaers, W.H. and Milter, R.G. eds. Educational Innovation in Economics and Business VII. Educating Knowledge Workers for Corporate Leadership: Learning into the Future. Educational Innovation in Economics and Business, VII. Klewer Academic Publications, pp. 231–248.

Butcher, John; Clarke, Anactoria; Wood, Carlton; McPherson, Elaine and Fowle, Wendy (2019). How does a STEM Access module prepare adult learners to succeed in undergraduate science? Journal of Further and Higher Education, 43(9) pp. 1271–1283.

Fowle, Wendy (2018). Supporting adult learners from disadvantaged backgrounds into higher education. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 20(3) pp. 90–108.

Storey, John; Quintas, Paul; Taylor, Phil and Fowle, Wendy (2002). Flexible employment contracts and their implications for product and process innovation. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 13(1) pp. 1–18.

Fowle, Wendy (2022). Widening Participation to Higher Education for Adult Learners: The Past Matters. EdD thesis The Open University.

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