Drawing on recent research on the psychology of social class, I argue that the material
conditions in which people grow up and live have a lasting impact on their personal and …

Educational transitions experienced within a context of wide and growing inequalities such
as England result in very different transition experiences to those experienced by young …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 O’Shea i ‘Mind the Gap!’ Exploring the postgraduation outcomes and
employment mobility of individuals who are first in their family to complete a university degree …

Over the last 40 years, UK higher education has moved from a publicly funded system to a
mixed publicly/privately funded system regulated as a tuition loans-based consumer market …

Higher Education and the Palestinian Minority in Israel examines perceptions concerning
the characteristics of higher education acquisition in the indigenous Palestinian Arab …

Widening participation programmes aim to increase the progression of students from low
socio‐economic status (SES) groups to higher education. This research proposes that the …

This article sets out and critically analyses the state of current knowledge on Widening
Participation at higher education institutions in Scotland and sets forth avenues for further …

Social Mobility for the 21st Century addresses experiences of social mobility, and the
detailed processes through which entrenched, intergenerationally transmitted privilege is …

Purpose The skillsets of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
graduates are widely recognised to be important for economic prosperity. At the same time, it …

Revisiting Richard Hoggart's classic work The Uses of Literacy (1957), this book applies
Hoggart's framework to media literacy today, examining media literacy's various uses, the …