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The importance of internal conversations and reflexivity for work-based students in higher education: Valuing contextual continuity and 'giving something back' (2012)
Journal Article
Bovill, H. (2012). The importance of internal conversations and reflexivity for work-based students in higher education: Valuing contextual continuity and 'giving something back'. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 31(6), 687-703. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2012.723049

This paper utilises the theories of Archer to explore the impact of student 'internal conversations' upon the development of reflexive approaches employed by work-based students (WBS). The study informing this paper draws on the voices of a range of... Read More about The importance of internal conversations and reflexivity for work-based students in higher education: Valuing contextual continuity and 'giving something back'.

Integrated quality enhancement and review of higher education in Further Education Colleges (2012)
Journal Article
Davies, P., & Simmons, J. (2012). Integrated quality enhancement and review of higher education in Further Education Colleges. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 17(3), 367-390. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2012.700182

Integrated Quality Enhancement and Review (IQER) was introduced as quality assurance designed specifically for Higher Education (HE) in Further Education Colleges (FEC) in 2008. Following a historical account of the quality assurance systems applied... Read More about Integrated quality enhancement and review of higher education in Further Education Colleges.

Online people tagging: Social (mobile) network(ing) services and work-based learning (2012)
Journal Article
Cook, J., & Pachler, N. (2012). Online people tagging: Social (mobile) network(ing) services and work-based learning. British Journal of Educational Technology, 43(5), 711-725. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2012.01346.x

Social and mobile technologies offer users unprecedented opportunities for communicating, interacting, sharing, meaning-making, content and context generation. And, these affordances are in constant flux driven by a powerful interplay between technol... Read More about Online people tagging: Social (mobile) network(ing) services and work-based learning.

Ubiquitous mobility with mobile phones: A cultural ecology for mobile learning (2011)
Journal Article
Cook, J., Pachler, N., & Bachmair, B. (2011). Ubiquitous mobility with mobile phones: A cultural ecology for mobile learning. E-Learning and Digital Media, 8(3), 181-196. https://doi.org/10.2304/elea.2011.8.3.181

This article argues that mobile phones should be viewed as new cultural resources that operate within an individualized, mobile and convergent mass communication; such a recognition facilitates the options for a cultural ecology. A particular challen... Read More about Ubiquitous mobility with mobile phones: A cultural ecology for mobile learning.

Parents, partners and peers: Bearing the hidden costs of lifelong learning (2011)
Journal Article
Waller, R., Bovill, H., & Pitt, B. (2011). Parents, partners and peers: Bearing the hidden costs of lifelong learning. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 30(4), 509-526. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2011.588464

This paper examines data from three projects to explore the 'hidden costs' of participating in lifelong learning. Whilst other potential risks (financial for instance) are anticipated, those around family and friendship ties are usually not. Adult re... Read More about Parents, partners and peers: Bearing the hidden costs of lifelong learning.

Welfare to work: training, benefits, un/employment and social justice (2011)
Book Chapter
Brine, J. (2011). Welfare to work: training, benefits, un/employment and social justice. In S. Jackson (Ed.), Lifelong learning and social justice: communities, work and identities in a globalised world. Leicester: NIACE

This chapter explores a specific aspect of lifelong learning, of 'skills and training', of lifelong learning linked to economic participation through the employment market - or more accurately, to the underbelly of the employment market, to the 'unem... Read More about Welfare to work: training, benefits, un/employment and social justice.

Widening participation Bristol-fashion: Embedding policy and practice at the Universities of Bristol and the West of England (2011)
Book Chapter
Hoare, A., Bowerman, B., Croudace, C., & Waller, R. (2011). Widening participation Bristol-fashion: Embedding policy and practice at the Universities of Bristol and the West of England. In L. Thomas, & M. Tight (Eds.), Institutional Transformation to Engage a Diverse Student Body (319-326). Bingley: Emerald

Structured Abstract Purpose: The paper reviews, compares and contrasts the experiences of two neighbouring universities, the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England, in the introduction, pursuit and institutional embedding... Read More about Widening participation Bristol-fashion: Embedding policy and practice at the Universities of Bristol and the West of England.

We blame the parents! A response to 'cultural capital as an explanation of variation in participation in higher education' by John Noble and Peter Davies (British Journal of Sociology of Education 30, no. 5) (2010)
Journal Article
Harrison, N., & Waller, R. (2010). We blame the parents! A response to 'cultural capital as an explanation of variation in participation in higher education' by John Noble and Peter Davies (British Journal of Sociology of Education 30, no. 5). British Journal of Sociology of Education, 31(4), 471-482. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2010.484922

This paper offers a response to a recent article where the authors argue cultural capital is the only determinant of the propensity of young people to seek to enter higher education, dismissing other indicators such as social class. This response que... Read More about We blame the parents! A response to 'cultural capital as an explanation of variation in participation in higher education' by John Noble and Peter Davies (British Journal of Sociology of Education 30, no. 5).