Drawing from original research and recent developments in theory, Researching Social Inequalities in Higher Education brings together insights from multiple national contexts and phases to consider a diverse range of equity issues in higher education.
Drawing from original research and recent developments in theory, Researching Social Inequalities in Higher Education brings together insights from multiple national contexts and phases to consider a diverse range of equity issues in higher education.
Authored by current and recently graduated PhD students, chapters examine the socioeconomic, ethnic and gender equalities at play within each of the following components:
access to higher education
the student experience
the academic workforce
An essential read for anyone researching higher education, or wishing to address social inequalities within higher education, this volume unpacks how higher education is becoming more accessible, inclusive and beneficial to an increasingly diverse population of students and staff.
Chapter
1. Issues of access, diversity and inclusion in contemporary
higher education ; PART ONE: ACCESSING HIGHER EDUCATION;
Chapter 2: Do
supported progression and bursary initiatives improve student outcomes?;
Chapter 3: Identifying contextually disadvantaged students in Chinese higher
education;
Chapter 4: The links between higher dducation expansion, intakes
and funding in China; PART TWO: THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE;
Chapter 5: The
experiences of working-class medical students in England and Portugal;
Chapter 6: Unpacking diversity in UK commuter students experiences;
Chapter
7. The challenges posed by the Covid-19 crisis to first generation elite
university students;
Chapter
8. Socioeconomic inequalities of access to elite
graduate labour market positions in China; PART THREE: THE ACADEMIC
WORKFORCE;
Chapter
9. Mapping the positionality of English for Academic
Purposes practitioners in English universities;
Chapter 10: How
organizational networks shape the career trajectories of Pakistani female
professors;
Chapter
11. Who inhabits the spaces of power in elite
universities?
Vikki Boliver is Professor in the Department of Sociology, Durham University, and has published widely on social inequalities impacting access to higher education. She is a leading expert on the use of contextual socioeconomic data to inform more equitable admissions decisions and has mentored dozens of doctoral and early career researchers.
Nadia Siddiqui is Professor in the School of Education, Durham University. Currently, she is researching disadvantage in education to inform policy and practice. She also supervises postgraduate students and doctoral researchers within the university.
