Outputs (45)

Students-as-insurers: rethinking ‘risk’ for disadvantaged young people considering higher education in England (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The conventional view since the early 2000s has been that participation in higher education (HE) is a risky pathway for disadvantaged young people in England; the social risk of entering... Read More about Students-as-insurers: rethinking ‘risk’ for disadvantaged young people considering higher education in England.

What shapes everyday translanguaging? Insights from a global mental health project in Northern Uganda (2018)
Book Chapter

This chapter contributes to ongoing explorations of translanguaging in everyday contexts, acknowledges the origins of the concept in multilingual educational contexts, and notes how researchers have also applied the concept to multilingual interactio... Read More about What shapes everyday translanguaging? Insights from a global mental health project in Northern Uganda.

Challenging discourses of aspiration: The role of expectations and attainment in access to higher education (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 British Educational Research Association Raising the proportion of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds progressing to higher education has been a key policy objective for successive governments in the UK since the late 1990s. Often thi... Read More about Challenging discourses of aspiration: The role of expectations and attainment in access to higher education.

Practical steps to building science capital in the primary classroom (2018)
Journal Article

An exploration of how meeting with engineers and scientists and other initiatives can help to increase science capital

Apprentice to Graduate: A narrative study into the progression experience of Advanced Apprentice (2018)
Thesis

This thesis explores the biographical journey into and through HE of a small group of former Advanced Apprentices. It explores how early educational experiences relate to pathways into and through the Apprenticeship system and how former Apprentices... Read More about Apprentice to Graduate: A narrative study into the progression experience of Advanced Apprentice.

Critical street work: The politics of working (in)outside institutions (2018)
Book Chapter

Politics, public pedagogy and action: Beyond a pedagogy of hope (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Higher education students' experiences of digital learning and (dis)empowerment (2018)
Journal Article

This paper focuses on learning practices in higher education in relation to a digital participatory culture. Using key principles of critical education, the research set out to explore higher education students' sense of agency online - or lack of it... Read More about Higher education students' experiences of digital learning and (dis)empowerment.

Autism and virtual reality head-mounted displays: a state of the art systematic review (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The use of virtual reality (VR) technologies in the education of autistic children has been a focus of research for over two decades. It is argued that this form of technology can provide authentic “real w... Read More about Autism and virtual reality head-mounted displays: a state of the art systematic review.

Understanding Graduate Careers: Research, Policy and Practice in Context (2018)
Book