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Shaping the field of lifelong education through three critical debates in the International Journal of Lifelong Education (2023)
Journal Article
Holford, J., Milana, M., Webb, S., Waller, R., Hodge, S., & Knight, E. (2023). Shaping the field of lifelong education through three critical debates in the International Journal of Lifelong Education. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 41(1), 549-571. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2022.2160020

The editors approached the 40th anniversary of the International Journal of Lifelong Education as an opportunity to consider the field by exploring how a corpus of 1462 articles (the first 40 volumes of the journal) questioned and shaped the field. A... Read More about Shaping the field of lifelong education through three critical debates in the International Journal of Lifelong Education.

Lifelong education research over 40 years: Insights from the International journal of lifelong education (2022)
Journal Article
Holford, J., Hodge, S., Knight, E., Milana, M., Waller, R., & Webb, S. (2022). Lifelong education research over 40 years: Insights from the International journal of lifelong education. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 41(6), 537-548. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2022.2167445

With this special issue of the International Journal of Lifelong Education, we complete a two-year celebration and critical examination of the field of adult lifelong education, prompted by the journal’s fortieth anniversary. In this editorial we pro... Read More about Lifelong education research over 40 years: Insights from the International journal of lifelong education.

Theorising adults, theorising learning (2022)
Journal Article
Hodge, S., Knight, L., Milana, M., Waller, R., & Webb, S. (2022). Theorising adults, theorising learning. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 41(4-5), 399-404. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2022.2116792

The irony of all theorising is its propensity to generate, not an understanding, but a not-yet-understood. (Oakshot, in Muller, 2015, p. 1) Adult learning theory is one of the central domains of lifelong education research. Anyone coming to the st... Read More about Theorising adults, theorising learning.

Selling our Youth: Graduate Stories of Class, Gender and Work in Challenging Times (2022)
Book
Waller, R., Bradley, H., & Bentley, L. (2022). Selling our Youth: Graduate Stories of Class, Gender and Work in Challenging Times. Bingley: Emerald

Selling Our Youth explores how the class origins of recent graduates continue to shape their labour market careers and thus reproduce class privilege and class disadvantage. It shows how class and gender combine to influence these young adults’ oppor... Read More about Selling our Youth: Graduate Stories of Class, Gender and Work in Challenging Times.

Female undergraduates playing it 'safe' to stay 'safe': Further understanding sexual violence against women (2022)
Journal Article
Bovill, H., McCartan, K., & Waller, R. (2022). Female undergraduates playing it 'safe' to stay 'safe': Further understanding sexual violence against women. Journal of International Women's Studies, 23(1),

Women’s safety from sexual violence whilst at university is a global issue and the UK is no exception. Whilst the authors of this paper acknowledge that sexual violence can occur across the gender spectrum, most sexual violence ‘victims’ are women an... Read More about Female undergraduates playing it 'safe' to stay 'safe': Further understanding sexual violence against women.

Discussing atypical sexual harassment as a controversial issue in bystander programmes: One UK campus study (2019)
Journal Article
Bovill, H., Waller, R., & McCartan, K. (2019). Discussing atypical sexual harassment as a controversial issue in bystander programmes: One UK campus study. Sexuality and Culture, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-019-09682-8

This research emanates from an anti-sexual violence bystander programme delivered at an English university. Fifteen students were identified through purposive and convenience sampling to take part in focus groups. Discussions emerged regarding atypic... Read More about Discussing atypical sexual harassment as a controversial issue in bystander programmes: One UK campus study.

Challenging discourses of aspiration: The role of expectations and attainment in access to higher education (2018)
Journal Article
Harrison, N., & Waller, R. (2018). Challenging discourses of aspiration: The role of expectations and attainment in access to higher education. British Educational Research Journal, 44(5), 914-938. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3475

© 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.